WBC middleweight champion Jermall Charlo (32-0, 22 KOs), who is set to return tonight after a 2.5-year layoff, failed to make his contractual limit of 163 pounds for his fight with Jose Benavidez Jr. (28-2-1, 19 KOs).
Fight between Jermall Charlo (32-0, 22 KOs) and Jose Benavidez Jr. (28-2-1, 19 KOs), scheduled for November 25 in Las Vegas, is scheduled for ten rounds. Thus, Charlo's WBC world title will not be on the line in this fight.
Information about the November 25 tournament at the Mandalay Bay Arena in Las Vegas and two interesting confrontations within it appeared about a week ago. Now new details have emerged. In the main event of the evening they will meet David Benavidez (27-0, 23 KOs) and Demetrius Andrade (32-0, 19 KOs). The boxing evening itself in the USA will be broadcast on pay-per-view on Showtime, although its final price is still unknown.
Former world champion in two weight classes Danny "Swift" Garcia made a successful junior middleweight debut this Saturday with a majority vote win over Jose Benavidez Jr. in the main event of a boxing evening in Brooklyn, USA. Thus, after winning the championship titles in super lightweight and welterweight, Garcia made his debut at 69 kg after an almost 20-month break.
In his debut fight in the first middleweight division, the former world champion in two weight categories Danny "Swift" Garcia (37-3, 21 KOs) won Jose Benavidez Jr. (27-2-1, 18 KOs) by majority decision in the main event of the evening at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.