Saturday Night Boxing Explosion!
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Saturday night, March 16th, 2019, promises to be an evening of pure boxing explosion for fight fans worldwide, culminating in Errol Spence Jr. slugging it out with Mikey Garcia. The two world champions combine for a 63-0 record, something’s gotta give, and somebody’s gotta go. The only question is who and when in the Texas main event tonight.
Arlington, Texas is not the only U.S.A. card on the board tonight. Hollywood, California, Boston, Massachusetts, and Charlotte, North Carolina also have explosive boxing cards tonight. In Boston, 29-3 Irish middleweight Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan will attempt a comeback at super welterweight in an eight rounder. Also in Boston, super welterweights Mark DeLuca and Jimmy Williams will fight for DeLuca’s WBA NABA Super Welterweight title, and light heavyweights Charles Foster and Mike Jimenez will fight for Foster’s WBA NABA Light Heavyweight title. Both regional title bouts are 10 rounds.
The Spence versus Garcia undercard at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, features 16 explosive undercard bouts. How many will be televised is uncertain, but with so many bouts on the table, and so many prospects putting it all on the tables, some upsets are guaranteed. Cruiserweight Marsellos Wilder, the brother of World Boxing Council World Heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, will open the card, the first of five scheduled four round bouts. Lightweight prospects Jose Valenzuela of Mexico and Christian Velez of Puerto Rico will slug it out after Wilder.
Mexican bantamweight Fernando Ibarra de Anda and Texas super middleweight Burley Brooks will debut. 8-1 Texas cruiserweight Adrian Taylor will face Nebraska’s William Deets in a four rounder. Of four scheduled six rounders, undefeated bantamweight prospects Aaron Morales and Fernando Robles will slug it out, as will super welterweight prospects Thomas Hill of Nevada and Limberth Ponce of Mexico.
Two undefeated Texas-Mexicans will appear in scheduled eight rounders, super bantamweight Fernando Garcia and super lightweight Lindolfo Delgado.
In an explosive scheduled 10 rounder, undefeated Texas flyweight prospect Jesse Rodriguez will face Azerbaijan’s dangerous Raul ‘The Lion’ Aghayev. California’s former world heavyweight champion, Charles Martin, will attempt a comeback in a 10 rounder against undefeated Texas heavyweight prospect Charles Corbin. California heavyweight contender and former world title challenger Chris ‘Nightmare’Arreola will face undefeated Haitian prospect Jean Pierre Augustin in another heavyweight 10 round crossroads bout. Given the history of the heavyweight division, an explosive knockout is almost certainly guaranteed in bouts like these, where for the former world-class heavyweights coming back, it becomes do or die versus the rapidly rising challengers.
28-0 Mexican bantamweight southpaw Luis Nery, the WBC Silver titleholder, considered the best prospect in the world in the bantamweight division, will fight a 20 rounder against Puerto Rico’s 18-2 dangerous fellow southpaw McJoe Arroyo, who will mostly certainly go for broke in this explosive opportunity bout. 20-0 Arizona super middleweight David Benavidez will face Floyd Mayweather Promotions dangerous 24-2-1 J’Leon Love of Detroit. Someone, either Benvidez or Love, is destined to go in a dangerous bout like this, and Love desperately needs the comeback win.
From Australia to Germany, there are major and minor fight cards around the world tonight. At Montreal Casino in Montreal, Canada, the tale of explosive Saturday got to a crazy bang, where 8-0-1 undefeated Canadian super bantamweight prospect Francois Pratte Bernard got knocked out in an upset by visiting Mexican southpaw Jorge Garcia Jimenez in the sixth round of a shocker. Elsewhere, 10-0 Australian lightweight prospect Jacob Ng survived a scare, coming off the canvas in the second round to score a sixth-round stoppage of Glenn Enterina, to win the vacant International Boxing Federation Youth Lightweight title.
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