Someday after Twitter’s Boog WIlliams broke the information, ProBox TV’s Garry Jonas confirmed that former champions Nicholas Walters and Joseph Diaz Jr will headline an October ninth occasion in Plant Metropolis, Florida.
“Axe Man” Walters’ (29-1-1, 22 KO) first main battle since his humiliating 2016 loss to Vasiliy Lomachenko noticed him field his well beyond Joseph Adorno in April. Beating “Blessed Palms” within the Yr of Our Lord 2024 isn’t a very noteworthy accomplishment, however he was unquestionably in stable type for a 38-year-old whose profession peak got here within the Obama administration.
Regardless of being seven years youthful, Diaz (33-6-1, 15 KO) is probably going the extra shopworn of the 2. He’s 1-5 in his final six, at one level weighing in at 147 for a battle scheduled for 135. His final effort was his most worrying, as an excellent light-weight bid noticed him brutalized by Oscar Duarte for his first-ever stoppage loss.
He’ll be again at 135 for this one, which might be nonetheless at the least one weight class too excessive contemplating his lack of vary and energy. Per Jonas, he’ll be in rehab for alcohol habit each time he’s not within the health club, a difficulty he’s been open about previously.
Frankly, I believe it’s too late for his profession. He’s had extra second possibilities than 99% of fighters might fairly ask for and squandered all of them.
