The combat fan’s weeknight vacation spot is elevating its recreation because the calendar turns to 2025.
ProBox TV has unveiled its first two U.S. home exhibits of the brand new 12 months, tightly contested matchups that hold with the marching orders to stage high-risk, high-reward matches with slender betting odds. (Disclosure: ProBox TV owns BoxingScene.)
The January 24 present in Tampa pits a ProBox TV stalwart, the 12-0 (6 KOs) mild heavyweight Najee Lopez, towards veteran Lenin Castillo, a 36-year-old veteran from the Dominican Republic with 32 skilled bouts below his belt.
Georgia’s Lopez, 25, fought 4 occasions in 2023 and posted an additional three victories on ProBox TV this 12 months as he prepares to problem the veteran.
Castillo (25-6-1, 19 KOs) has misplaced two of his previous three bouts by choice, however he has fought each former 168-pound titleholder Callum Smith (a second-round knockout loss in a 2021 combat at 175) and up to date mild heavyweight titleholder Dmitry Bivol (a unanimous choice defeat in 2019).
Mexico’s Ruben Eduardo Aguilar (22-0-1, 19 KOs), brings his spectacular knockout ratio to the January 24 co-feature versus veteran Cristian Baez (19-4, 17 KOs) of Venezuela.
Aguilar is averaging lower than 2.4 rounds of labor in his bouts. Now 24, “El Politto” is on the lookout for some sterner checks, just like the one he’s anticipated to obtain from Baez, 33, who has dropped his previous two bouts, each on the ProBox TV facility.
Baez beforehand fought latest featherweight world titleholder Luis Alberto Lopez as a light-weight in 2019, struggling a fifth-round technical-knockout loss.
The left-handed Baez has compiled 100 professional rounds, nevertheless, and is anticipated to offer gritty work for Aguilar.
On February 8 on the ProBox facility in Tampa, the cardboard is headlined by a brilliant bantamweight bout pitting prime 10-ranked Ramon Cardenas (No. 2 WBA, No. 10 WBO) towards Bryan Acosta.
San Antonio’s Cardenas (25-1, 14 KOs), is coming off a ProBox TV victory on April 24, when he defeated Jesus Ramirez Rubio by ninth-round knockout.
Cardenas, 29, meets Mexico’s unbeaten Acosta (20-0, 8 KOs), with the 26-year-old Acosta searching for elevated exercise after preventing simply as soon as in every of the previous two years in his native nation after taking three fights in Canada in 2022.
Additionally, the return of Guatemala’s Lester Martinez (18-0, 15 KOs) to ProBox TV follows two 2024 triumphs – a second-round knockout in February and a large choice in June.
Skilled by Terence Crawford’s lead cornerman, Brian “BoMac” McIntyre, Martinez has risen to No. 2 within the WBA rankings behind champion Canelo Alvarez, secondary titleholder Caleb Plant and top-ranked unbeaten Christian Mbilli. Martinez can be No. 8 within the WBC rankings.
Martinez meets Sacramento’s Joeshon James (9-0-2, 5 KOs), who claimed a unanimous-decision conquer Vaughn Alexander in February 2024 on a ProBox TV card.
Later in February, ProBox TV phases a card in Bolton, England, that can be headed by light-heavyweight Radivoje “Scorching Rod” Kalajdzic (29-3, 21 KOs).
On August 3, Kalajdzic went the space with present WBA secondary light-heavyweight titleholder David Morrell of Cuba. Morrell on February 1 meets WBC interim titleholder David Benavidez to turn into necessary foe to the winner of the February 22 mild heavyweight title combat between undisputed champion Artur Beterbiev and former titleholder Dmitry Bivol.
