Unbeaten Lester Martinez isn’t letting an ailment derail his plans.
Martinez, rated No. 9 by The Ring at 168 kilos, will face Joeshon James on November 9, ProBox TV’s Chris Glover instructed The Ring Monday evening. The ten-round bout will happen on the Osceola Heritage Park Occasion Heart in Kissimmee, Florida and can stream reside on the ProBox TV software and YouTube channel.
The Martinez-James combat was initially scheduled to happen on September 11 on the Whitesands (also called the ProBox TV) Occasions Heart in close by Plant Metropolis.
The Martinez-Jones combat is a compelling conflict between two unbeaten tremendous middleweights who defeated stable opposition to get up to now of their respective careers.
Martinez (18-0, 15 knockouts) scored a formidable unanimous resolution victory over contender Carlos Gongora in his final bout on June 28. It was a one-sided victory over Gongora, who fought to a detailed resolution to contender Christian Mbilli.
In his earlier combat on February 23, in his hometown of Guatemala Metropolis, Guatemala, Martinez dropped journeyman Ruben Angulo as soon as en path to a second spherical knockout victory in a stay-busy combat.
The 28-year-old is co-trained by Brian ‘Bomac’ McIntyre, Esau Dieguez, and Purple Spikes, all of whom additionally co-train newly-crowned WBA world junior middleweight titleholder Terence Crawford.
Martinez and Crawford generated buzz a number of weeks in the past after a photograph of them sparring one another in a Las Vegas fitness center made the rounds of social media. Crawford needed to spar Martinez in anticipation of a possibility to combat Ring Journal tremendous middleweight champion and unified world titleholder Canelo Alvarez.
Previous to the handful of fights underneath the ProBox TV banner, Martinez did cease once-beaten Isaiah Steen on April 10 of final yr.
James (9-0-2, 5 KOs), who resides in Sacramento, California, defeated Vaughn Alexander by unanimous resolution in his final bout on February 16. In his earlier combat on October 21, James stopped David Stevens within the opening spherical of a conflict between unbeaten prospects.
The 26-year-old went via a stretch of combating 4 consecutive fighters with unbeaten data, culminating within the knockout win over Stevens. James scored a knockout win over Richard Brewart, Jr. in September 2022 and a split-decision draw in opposition to Javier Martinez virtually eight months later.
James has confronted a complete of six unbeaten fighters so far in his profession.
Francisco A. Salazar has written for The Ring since October 2013 and has coated boxing in Southern California and overseas since 2000. Francisco additionally covers boxing for the Ventura County (California) Star newspaper. He may be reached at [email protected]
