Marc Castro reacts in the course of the struggle in opposition to Kevin Montiel Mendoza on the T-Cell Area in Las Vegas, NV. Necessary Credit score: Ed Mulholland/Matchroom.
The latest participant on the town has resurrected an previous custom for its upcoming struggle week.
Turki Alalshikh has confirmed a three-fight card as a part of struggle week festivities for Riyadh Season’s U.S. launch. Unbeaten light-weight prospect Marc Castro will headline a July 31 present, which is able to air dwell on DAZN from the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California.
Castro (12-0, 8 knockouts) will face Southern California native George Acosta (17-2, 3 KOs) in a scheduled ten-rounder. It would mark the primary most important occasion for the 24-year-old from Fresno, California.
The occasion will precede the Aug. 3 Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford-Israil Madrimov DAZN Pay-Per-View occasion from BMO Stadium in Los Angeles.
Castro enters his second struggle of 2024. The Matchroom Boxing-promoted, Keith Connolly-managed light-weight turned away a stern problem from Abraham Montoya to win a call in April. It was the primary time that Castro went ten full rounds.
Acosta additionally fights for the second time this yr. He suffered an eight-round choice defeat to Rene Tellez on Feb. 8 in Las Vegas. The 27-year-old from Whittier, California has by no means been stopped by 19 professional fights.
Additionally on the present:
Uzbekistan’s Shakhram Giyasov (15-0, 9 KOs) and Mexico’s Miguel Parra (22-4-1, 14 KOs meet in a scheduled welterweight contest.
Nathan Lugo (1-0, 1 KO)—a latest Queensberry Promotions signee—faces Utah’s Ray Corona (4-1, 0 KOs) in a four-round tremendous middleweight bout.
All three bouts will happen following a scheduled open media exercise devoted to the Crawford-Madrimov present. The mid-weight struggle week is a return to when promoters would recurrently showcase its expertise throughout struggle week of a significant boxing occasion. Earlier Riyadh Season exhibits have used the identical template of grand arrivals, media exercises, last press convention and pre-fight weigh-in.
The break from the norm offers Castro the style of a most important occasion slot. He usually seems on the undercard of excessive profile Matchroom Boxing exhibits, together with a number of exhibits headlined by Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez (61-2-2, 39 KOs). His Feb. 2021 professional debut got here in supporting capability to Alvarez’s knockout win over Avni Yildirim in Miami Gardens, Florida.
