Jaime Munguia (left) and Erik Bazinyan face off throughout Wednesday’s ultimate press convention. They meet Friday atop an ESPN tripleheader from Desert Diamond Area in Glendale, Arizona. Photograph credit score: Mikey Williams, Prime Rank
Jaime Munguia is ready for the following section of his nonetheless promising profession.
The previous WBO junior middleweight titlist and present 168-pound contender is ready for his first battle for the reason that lone lack of his profession. Tijuana’s Munguia was 167.7 kilos, whiel Canada’s Erik Bazinyan weighed 167.9 kilos.
Their scheduled 12-round tremendous middleweight bout headlines an ESPN tripleheader Friday from Desert Diamond Area in Glendale, Arizona.
Munguia (43-1, 34 knockouts) is coming off a Could 4 defeat to RING tremendous middleweight champion Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez (62-2-2, 39 KOs). Their bout marked Munguia’s first battle as a Pay-Per-View headliner.
Friday marks his debut on ESPN and aligned with Prime Rank. He enters the battle as The Ring’s No. 2-rated tremendous middleweight.
Prime Rank went all in for his first battle beneath its umbrella. His weigh-in entrance got here full with a promotional package deal and a reside mariachi band.
Bazinyan (32-0-1, 23 KOs) isn’t any stranger to the platform. The Ring’s No. 7-rated contender has appeared on ESPN+ a number of instances beneath Camille Estephan’s Eye of the Tiger Administration promotion.
His final outing took some shine off his profession progress, nevertheless. Bazinyan endured his first blemish in a ten-round draw with unheralded Shakeel Phinn on Could 2 in Montreal.
The bout versus Munguia is Bazinyan’s first on U.S. soil since 2019.
ESPN undercard (10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT)
Richard Torrez Jr (10-0, 10 KOs), Tulare, California, 232.6 kilos
Joey Dawejko (28-11-4, 16 KOs), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 244.1 kilos
8 rounds, heavyweight
Emiliano Vargas (11-0, 9 KOs), Las Vegas by way of Oxnard, California, 139.2 kilos
Larry Fryers (13-6-1, 5 KOs), Clones, Eire, 138.2 kilos
8 rounds, junior weltertweight
ESPN+ preliminary undercard (6:15 p.m. ET/3:15 p.m. PT)
Charly Suarez (17-0, 9 KOs), Manila, Philippines, 129.4 kilos
Jorge Castaneda (17-3, 13 KOs), Laredo, Texas, 129.1 kilos
10 rounds, junior light-weight
Alan Garcia (14-0, 11 KOs), Ulysses, Kansas, kilos, 137.3 kilos
Ricardo Fernandez (15-13, 1 KO), Longoro, Spain, 137.2 kilos
Demler “DJ” Zamora (13-0, 9 KOs), Las Vegas, Nevada, 130.7 kilos
Gerardo Antonio Perez (12-5-1, KOs), Salta, Argentina 133.2 kilos*
8 rounds, junior light-weight (131-pound contract restrict; *Perez 2.2 kilos over)
Steven Navarro (3-0, 3 KOs), Los Angeles, California, 115.2 kilos
Oscar Arroyo (3-2, 2 KOs), West Hempstead, New York, 114.4 kilos
6 rounds, junior bantamweight
Jorge Garcia (30-4, 25 KOs), Los Mochis, Mexico, 156.2 kilos
Ilias Essaoudi (22-2, 15 KOs), Fort Myers, Florida by way of Offenbach, Germany 156.6 kilos
10 rounds, junior middleweight
Sebastian Hernandez (16-0, 15 KOs), San Diego by way of Tijuana, Mexico, 120.4 kilos
Yonfrez Parejo (24-6-1, 12 KOs), Las Vegas by way of Valencia, Venezuela, 125 kilos
8 rounds, junior featherweight (*Parejo properly over the restrict)
