Johan Gonzalez faces Erislandy Lara this Saturday, December 6, on the Frost Financial institution Heart in San Antonio, Texas. The Venezuelan contender took the battle on brief discover, changing Janibek Alimkhanuly, who failed a VADA anti-doping take a look at, Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) introduced.
Gonzalez (36-4, 34 KOs) challenges Cuba’s two-division champion Lara (31-3-3, 19 KOs) for his WBA middleweight title. The competition is featured on the undercard of Isaac Cruz vs Lamont Roach, reside on PBC PPV on Prime Video.
42-year-old Lara makes the fourth protection of his belt, having stopped Danny Garcia in 9 rounds in his earlier bout final September. 34-year-old Gonzalez makes his first try to win one of many 4 main belts, following his split-decision victory over Jarrett Hurd in March.
Lara was initially scheduled to satisfy unified IBF and WBO champion Alimkhanuly (17-0, 12 KOs) of Kazakhstan in a three-belt championship unification, serving because the co-feature.
The brand new co-feature is an excellent featherweight title battle between defending WBC champion O’Shaquie Foster (23-3, 12 KOs) of Orange, Texas, and Philadelphia’s two-division champion and present WBC featherweight titleholder Stephen Fulton (23-1, 8 KOs).
In the principle occasion, Mexico’s Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz (28-3-1, 18 KOs) defends his interim WBC tremendous light-weight title towards reigning WBA tremendous featherweight champion Lamont Roach (25-1-2, 10 KOs) of Washington, D.C.
Additionally on the cardboard, Jesus Ramos Jr. (23-1, 19 KOs) of Casa Grande, Arizona, and Shane Mosley Jr. (22-4, 12 KOs) of Pomona, California, conflict for the interim WBC middleweight title.
Among the many prelims, Isaac Lucero (17-0, 13 KOs) and Roberto Valenzuela Jr. (31-5, 29 KOs) meet in an all-Mexican showdown at tremendous welterweight.
