ProBox introduced yesterday that tremendous featherweight contenders Muhammadkhuja Yaqubov and William Foster III will headline an August fifteenth card at their Occasions Middle in Plant Metropolis, Florida.
That’s a Friday, for the file.
Tajikistan’s Yaqubov (22-1, 12 KO) misplaced extensive to O’Shaquie Foster in a 2022 WBC eliminator, however has since received 4 straight over marginal competitors. Foster (19-2, 11 KO), who narrowly fell to Henry Lebron in a 2023 conflict of unbeatens earlier than struggling a rout two fights later by the hands of unheralded Eridson Garcia, enters on a two-fight successful streak.
A type of noticed him hand Jayson Velez his ninth consecutive defeat. Eugh.
The present additionally sees ShoBox veterans Starling Castillo (19-1-1, 13 KO) and Shinard Bunch (21-2-1, 17 KO) sq. off at tremendous light-weight. This ends an almost seventeen-month layoff for Castillo and a two-year layoff for Bunch.
Couple of stable B-level scraps right here, good for a Friday evening appetizer forward of the next day’s Riyadh Season present.