A crowd favourite and a proud villain will grace the undercard of Jaime Munguia’s subsequent battle.
Prime Rank has confirmed the position of Emiliano Vargas and Andres Cortes in separate undercard bouts on Sept. 20. Each boxers will seem on the ESPN telecast stay from Desert Diamond Enviornment in Glendale, Arizona.
Cortes (22-0, 12 knockouts) will face the Philippines’ Charley Suarez (17-0, 9 KOs) in a ten-round junior light-weight conflict. The bout will function the night’s co-feature. Opening the tripleheader, Vargas (11-0, 9 KOs) will face journeyman Larry Fryers (13-6-1, 5 KOs) in an eight-round junior welterweight battle.
Cortes is coming off his most notable win thus far, although maybe virtually his most disputed as effectively. The unbeaten North Las Vegas native edged Abraham Nova (23-2, 16 KOs) in a June 24 disputed factors win in Las Vegas. With the win got here the expectation of a title shot quickly to observe.
That dream stays in place, although Cortes properly selected exercise whereas constructing in direction of that second.
“Ever for the reason that Nova battle, I’ve been engaged on my craft within the gymnasium,” insisted Cortes, who fights for the third time this 12 months. “I’m displaying the world my full arsenal on September 20. I need a world title shot quickly, and I must earn it with a devastating efficiency over Suarez.”
Vargas lands his fourth battle of 2024, following a six-fight 2023 marketing campaign. His bout versus Fryers will mark his fourth profession look at Desert Diamond Enviornment. The second-generation boxer—his father Fernando was a former two-time 154-pound titlist—has confirmed to be an enormous crowd favourite.
In his most up-to-date outing Vargas tore by way of Jose Zaragoza inside one spherical on June 29 in Miami Seaside.
Headlining the present, Tijuana’s Munguia (43-1, 34 KOs) faces Canada’s Erik Bazinyan (32-0-1, 23 KOs) in a 12-round tremendous middleweight contest.
Undercard motion, streaming stay and solely on ESPN+, consists of the next bouts:
2020 Olympic Silver medalist Richard Torrez Jr. (10-0, 10 KOs) meets Philadelphia’s Joey Dawejko (28-11-4, 16 KOs) in a scheduled eight-round heavyweight affair.
Artwork Barrera Jr. (6-0, 4 KOs) faces Jose Belloso (5-4, 5 KOs) in a six-round welterweight outing.
DJ Zamora (13-0, 9 KOs) enters his second battle with Prime Rank in an eight-round conflict.
Los Angeles’ Steven Navarro (3-0, 2 KOs) takes on Oscar Arroyo (3-2, 2 KOs) in a six-round junior bantamweight contest.
Rising junior featherweight Sebastian Hernandez (16-0, 15 KOs) and former secondary titlist Yonfrez Parejo (24-6-1, 12 KOs) collide in an eight-round junior featherweight bout.
