8/15 PBC on SHO: David Benavidez vs Roamer Alexis Angulo (WBC Super Middleweight Title)

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Rolando Romero will attempt his first step toward becoming a lightweight champion August 15.

Showtime announced Wednesday morning that the promising prospect will battle Jackson Marinez on August 15 as part of the network’s tripleheader from Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. The 12-round Romero-Marinez match will be broadcast along with a 12-round main event between WBC super middleweight champ David Benavidez and Alexis Angulo, as well as a 10-round heavyweight fight that’ll pit Otto Wallin against Travis Kauffman.

BoxingScene.com previously reported that the Benavidez-Angulo and Wallin-Kauffman fights are part of the Showtime’s three-bout broadcast August 15.

The 24-year-old Romero (11-0, 10 KOs), who is promoted by Floyd Mayweather’s company, and Marinez (19-0, 7 KOs) will fight for the WBA’s interim lightweight title. Ukraine’s Vasiliy Lomachenko (14-1, 10 KOs) is recognized as the WBA’s true “super” champion at 135 pounds, but Baltimore’s Gervonta Davis (23-0, 22 KOs) owns the WBA’s world lightweight title as well.

Nevertheless, Las Vegas’ Romero will encounter his best opponent since he turned pro in December 2016. The Dominican Republic’s Marinez, 29, also will take a significant step up in competition when he meets Romero.

Marinez is ranked sixth among the WBA’s lightweight contenders. Romero is rated 10th.

Benavidez (22-0, 19 KOs) and Angulo (26-1, 22 KOs) were supposed to headline a Showtime Championship Boxing card April 18 at Arizona Federal Theatre in Phoenix, but that show was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 23-year-old Benavidez won back the WBC 168-pound title in his last fight, a ninth-round knockout of Anthony Dirrell (33-2-1, 24 KOs) on September 28 at Staples Center in Los Angeles.

The WBC previously stripped Benavidez of that belt because he tested positive for cocaine in August 2018.

Sweden’s Wallin will compete as part of this card for the first time since testing WBC champ Tyson Fury last September 14 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Wallin lost a 12-round unanimous decision to England’s Fury (30-0-1, 21 KOs), but he opened a huge gash over Fury’s right eye with a punch in the second round and gave the unbeaten Brit a tougher time than many anticipated.

Sweden’s Wallin (20-1, 13 KOs, 1 NC) was supposed to square off against Australia’s Lucas Browne (29-2, 25 KOs) on March 28 at Park MGM’s Park Theater in Las Vegas. The 29-year-old Wallin withdrew from that 10-rounder, which Showtime was scheduled to televise, after a suffering a fractured left foot late in February.

The 34-year-old Kauffman (32-3, 23 KOs, 1 NC) hasn’t boxed since Cuban southpaw Luis Ortiz (31-2, 26 KOs, 2 NC) knocked him out in the 10th round of their scheduled 10-round bout in December 2018 at Staples Center. Kauffman, of Reading, Pennsylvania, underwent shoulder surgery following his loss to Ortiz, which kept Kauffman out of the ring in 2019.

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Alantez Fox On Standby For Showtime's Benavidez-Angulo Main Event
By Keith Idec

Published On Fri Aug 7, 2020, 12:06 PM EST

Mykal Fox isn’t the only member of his fighting family who is on standby.

BoxingScene.com has been informed that Alantez Fox, Mykal’s older brother, is a potential replacement preparing to fill in for Showtime’s main event August 15 at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. Alantez Fox could face either WBC super middleweight champion David Benavidez or Alexis Angulo if either fighter tests positive for COVID-19 or withdraws from their 12-round, 168-pound title fight for another reason.

Alantez Fox is not ranked in the WBC’s top 15 at super middleweight. If he were to oppose Phoenix’s Benavidez (22-0, 19 KOs), it probably would be a non-title fight.

Colombia’s Angulo (26-1, 22 KOs) is the WBC’s 15th-rated contender at 168 pounds, and thus qualifies for a shot at Benavidez’s belt.

Alantez Fox (26-2-1, 12 KOs), of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, is scheduled to square off against Ghana’s Habib Ahmed (27-1-1, 18 KOs) in an eight-round super middleweight match on the non-televised portion of the Benavidez-Angulo undercard. In his most recent appearance, England’s Liam Williams (22-2-1, 17 KOs) stopped Alantez Fox in the fifth round of their middleweight match December 21 at Copper Box Arena in London.

The 6-feet-4 Fox primarily has competed as a middleweight during his 10-year pro career, but the 28-year-old veteran has participated in super middleweight bouts as well.

Before he heads to Connecticut for fight week, Alantez Fox will work Mykal Fox’s corner Saturday night at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

Mykal Fox, 24, is scheduled to face Lucas Santamaria (10-1-1, 7 KOs), of Garden Grove, California, in a 10-round welterweight bout on the Thomas Dulorme-Jamal James undercard. The Fox-Santamaria match will be the third fight FS1 televises after FOX’s three-bout broadcast headlined by Dulorme (25-3-1, 16 KOs) and James (26-1, 12 KOs) in a 12-round, 147-pound fight for the WBA interim welterweight title.

Mykal Fox (22-1, 5 KOs), who is ranked 13th in the welterweight division by the WBA, remains on standby in case Las Vegas’ Dulorme or Minneapolis’ James fails a COVID-19 test. All 14 boxers scheduled compete on that card Saturday night will take their final pre-fight COVID-19 tests Friday.

 

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at least this time there is a legit world title being defended

that romero kid is a top mayweather promotions prospect..interim title aside lets see if he shows out

also we will finally see where wallin falls in the HW division..if he wins decisively, then it goes a way to making fury's win over him a little bit more legit. if he loses, then fury lol

 

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[patscorpio]

fukking idiot...he lost his belt on the scales...man angulo has a REAL good shot at walking away with that belt tomorrow

 

[aceboon]

How did he not have access to a sauna or bathtub? They had MMA fights and boxing in the same bubble two weeks ago.

 

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Benavidez Almost 3 Pounds Overweight; Loses WBC 168-Pound Title At Scale
By Keith Idec

Published On Fri Aug 14, 2020, 11:31 AM EST

David Benavidez lost his WBC super middleweight title for the second time without actually being defeated in the ring.

Benavidez was nearly three pounds overweight Friday morning for what was supposed to be a defense of his WBC super middleweight title against Alexis Angulo on Saturday night at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut. Benavidez stepped on the scale at 170.8 pounds for a 12-round fight contracted to be contested at the super middleweight maximum of 168 pounds.

Benavidez was so overweight, he didn’t try to come back to the scale within the allotted time permissible when a boxer misses weight.

Angulo, 36, officially weighed 167.6 pounds when he stepped on the Mohegan Tribe Department of Regulation’s scale. The title Benavidez lost will be at stake for Angulo because he made weight.

Despite coming in overweight, Benavidez (22-0, 19 KOs), listed as a 10-1 favorite, will end a 10-month layoff against Angulo in the main event of Showtime’s tripleheader. The Phoenix native last boxed September 28, when he knocked out Anthony Dirrell (33-2-1, 24 KOs) in the ninth round to regain the WBC super middleweight title at Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Benavidez was stripped of that championship after testing positive for cocaine in August 2018.

Angulo (26-1, 22 KOs) most recently upset Anthony Sims Jr. (20-1, 18 KOs) by split decision in a 10-rounder January 30 in Miami. He has lost only to Gilberto Ramirez (40-0, 26 KOs), then the WBO super middleweight champ, by 12-round unanimous decision in June 2018 at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City.

Benavidez and Angulo initially were scheduled to headline Showtime’s tripleheader April 18 at Arizona Federal Theatre in Phoenix. That show was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Before Benavidez and Angulo got on the scale, Rolando Romero and Jackson Marinez made weight for their 12-round lightweight title fight Saturday night.

Las Vegas’ Romero (11-0, 10 KOs), who’s promoted by Floyd Mayweather’s company, came in at 134.8 pounds. The Dominican Republic’s Marinez (19-0, 7 KOs) weighed exactly 135 pounds.

Romero, 24, and Marinez, 29, will fight for the WBA’s interim lightweight title, one of four WBA titles in that same division.

Showtime’s three-bout broadcast also will feature a 10-round heavyweight bout between Otto Wallin and Travis Kauffman.

Sweden’s Wallin (20-1, 13 KOs, 1 NC) stepped on the scale at 241.8 pounds. Kauffman (32-3, 23 KOs), of Reading, Pennsylvania, weighed 234.2 pounds.

The 29-year-old Wallin will fight for the first time since testing Tyson Fury in a 12-round fight Wallin lost by unanimous decision last September 14 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. A left hand by Wallin opened a gruesome gash above Fury’s right eye in the third round, but England’s Fury (30-0-1, 21 KOs) fought through that cut and won by scores of 118-110, 117-111 and 116-112.

Wallin was supposed to return to the ring against Australia’s Lucas Browne (29-2, 25 KOs) on March 28 at Park MGM in Las Vegas. Wallin withdrew from that bout because he fractured a bone in his left foot late in February.

That Showtime telecast eventually was scrapped due to the coronavirus crisis as well.

The 34-year-old Kauffman will end a 20-month hiatus caused largely by surgery to repair a torn labrum in his left shoulder.

Luis Ortiz stopped Kauffman in the 10th round of Kauffman’s last appearance, which came in December 2018 at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Cuba’s Ortiz (31-2, 26 KOs, 2 NC) knocked Kauffman to the canvas three times – once apiece in the sixth, eighth and 10th rounds – before their fight was stopped.

Showtime’s tripleheader will start at 9 p.m. ET and 6 p.m. PT.

Alantez Fox and Habib Ahmed also made weight Friday for their non-televised, eight-round super middleweight match Saturday night.

Fox (26-2-1, 12 KOs), of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, officially weighed 169.6 pounds. Ahmed (27-1-1, 18 KOs), of Accra, Ghana, came in at 166.4 pounds.

 

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How did he not have access to a sauna or bathtub? They had MMA fights and boxing in the same bubble two weeks ago.

apparently he didnt even try to make weight the second time..didnt even try smh

 

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so if angulo wins, yildirim will be the next for him

if benavidez wins, its yiildirim vs #2 to possibly #5 for the vacant title (depending on situations)

 

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so if angulo wins, yildirim will be the next for him

if benavidez wins, its yiildirim vs #2 to possibly #5 for the vacant title (depending on situations)

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Callum Smith is the "diamond" champ, he might have a claim to fight for it.

 

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Callum Smith is the "diamond" champ, he might have a claim to fight for it.

oh yeah thats right...and callum smith will destroy yildirim if they fight

 

[Dallas' 4 Eva]

oh yeah thats right...and callum smith will destroy yildirim if they fight

He'll destroy Angulo too if we being honest. Benavidez has more power than Smith, but Smith is a much better boxer.

 

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damn Benavidez you fukkin up

some great fights for him at 168, but i doubt they fight him without a title