Seniesa Estrada, the Ring Journal Feminine strawweight champion, and Yokasta Valle might sq. off on March 29 in a unification struggle. Boxingscene’s Keith Idec was the primary to report the information.
The ten-round bout will reportedly happen on the Desert Diamond Area in Glendale, California and can precede the principle occasion bout between junior light-weight contenders Oscar Valdez and Liam Wilson.
Each fights will happen on a High Rank card and can air stay on an ESPN platform.
The winner of the struggle won’t solely be the Ring Journal champion, however will change into the undisputed champion at 105 kilos. Estrada holds the WBC and WBA world title belts and Valle owns the IBF and WBO world title belts.
The struggle between Estrada and Valle is a conflict between feminine fighters ranked within the Ring Journal Pound for Pound rankings. Estrada and Valle are rated No. 5 and 9, respectively.
Estrada (25-0, 9 knockouts), who resides in East Los Angeles, California, made a profitable protection of her unified world title belts in her final struggle on July 28, profitable a hard-fought unanimous choice over Argentina’s Leonela Yudica..
In her earlier struggle on March 25, Estrada scored a one-sided choice victory over Tina Rupprecht, who entered the struggle because the WBC world titleholder.
Weeks after the win over Yudica, on September 12, Estrada had surgical procedure on her proper hand to restore ligament harm and a process to reduce a cyst on her proper index finger. Estrada claimed she had reaggravated an harm to her proper hand in the course of the second spherical of Yudica struggle, stopping her from it and altering her recreation plan for the struggle.
The 31-year-old is presently educated by Dean Santos.
Valle (30-2, 9 KOs), who now resides in San Jose, Costa Rica after being born and raised in Nicaragua, final fought on November 4, defeating Mexico’s Anabel Ortiz by unanimous choice. The win over Ortiz marked Valle’s fourth protection of her IBF and WBO world title belts.
The 31-year-old moved up in weight to face Evelin Bermudez in November 2022, profitable by majority choice to win the IBF and WBO world junior flyweight titles.
Valle is unbeaten since a unanimous choice loss to Rupprecht in June 2018. She is co-promoted by Golden Boy Promotions and MarvNation Promotions.
The conflict between Valdez and Wilson, each of whom lately misplaced to WBO world junior light-weight titleholder Emanuel Navarrete, may produce fireworks between two fighters who throw a excessive quantity of punches.
Valdez (31-2, 23 KOs) is presently rated No. 7 by The Ring at 130 kilos. Wilson (13-2, 7 KOs) of Australia has gained his final two fights since his knockout loss to Navarrete.
Francisco A. Salazar has written for The Ring since October 2013 and has lined boxing in Southern California and overseas since 2000. Francisco additionally covers boxing for the Ventura County (California) Star newspaper. He will be reached at [email protected]
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