Luis Alberto Lopez (left) and Angelo Leo face off forward of their Aug. 10 IBF featherweight title struggle in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Photograph credit score: Mikey Williams, Prime Rank
Luis Alberto Lopez is about for his newest highway journey.
The well-traveled Mexicali native checked in at 125.6 kilos forward of his newest IBF featherweight title protection. Angelo Leo weighed the identical as he goals to turn into a two-division titlist, with the advantage of a partisan crowd.
They meet this Saturday on ESPN from Tingley Coliseum from Leo’s dwelling base in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Lopez (30-2, 17 knockouts) has emerged as The Ring’s No.-1 rated featherweight. He’s finished so the exhausting manner, first together with his Dec. 2022 title win over Josh Warrington within the Brit’s hometown of Leeds, England. He then traveled to Belfast, the place he knocked out Michael Conlan within the fifth spherical final Could.
Two extra title defenses adopted, each stateside. The most recent got here in an eighth-round knockout of obligatory challenger Reiya Abe on March 2 in Verona, New York.
Leo (24-1, 11 KOs) briefly held the WBO junior featherweight title. He received and misplaced the belt within the Showtime bubble at Mohegan Solar On line casino in Uncasville, Connecticut.
The reign started with an Aug. 2020 factors win over then-unbeaten Tramaine Williams, who changed a COVID-stricken Stephen Fulton. Leo then dropped a twelve-round, unanimous determination to Fulton (22-1, 8 KOs) in Jan. 2021. Yet one more struggle adopted at 122 earlier than he moved as much as featherweight, the place he’s added three victories.
Leo’s four-fight win streak is accompanied by a unprecedented fee of exercise in comparison with most on this period. Saturday will mark his third struggle of 2024 and fourth in a span of simply over 9 months.
Within the televised co-feature, Lindolfo Delgado (30-2, 17KOs) and Bryan Flores (26-0-1, 15 KOs) every weighed 139.9 kilos. They meet in a scheduled ten-round junior welterweight contest.
Under are the weights for the remaining undercard bouts.
8 rounds, flyweight
Matthew Griego (14-0, 10 KOs) Albuquerque, 111.9 kilos
Gilberto Mendoza (23-18-4, 11 KOs), Modesto, California, 110.7 kilos
10 rounds, junior middleweight
Vito Mielnicki Jr. (18-1, 12 KOs), Roseland, New Jersey 154 kilos
Laszlo Toth (32-8-2, 20 KOs), Sopron, Hungary, 153.3 kilos
6 rounds, featherweight
Albert Gonzalez (9-0, 5 KOs), Riverside, California, 126.3 kilos
Damian Alcala (8-4, 2 KOs), Tijuana, Mexico, 126.9 kilos
8 rounds, light-weight
Alan Garcia (13-0, 10 KOs), Ulysses, Kansas, 136.2 kilos
Maickol Lopez (16-5, 8 KOs), Mexico Metropolis, Mexico, 136.2 kilos
6 rounds, bantamweight
Steven Navarro (2-0, 1 KO), Inglewood, California, 116.6 kilos
Camacho (2-11, 0 KOs), Houston, Texas, 115.6 kilos
10 rounds, featherweight
Arnold Khegai (21-1-1, 13 KOs), Odessa, Ukraine, kilos 125.8 kilos
Belmar Preciado (22-7-1, 15 KOs), Ibague, Colombia, 125.9 kilos
