Rising junior middleweight Leonardo Ruiz steps up against Argentina’s Elias Haedo in the 10-round main event this Friday, Dec. 6, at Sala Urbana in Naucalpan de Juárez, Mexico. Ruiz, a Southern California-based boxer-puncher, is aiming for his third victory of the year.
Fight fans will go inside the training camp and learn about the family and proud Hispanic heart that motivates former unified WBC/WBO junior welterweight world champion José Ramírez (27-1, 17 KOs) who makes his hometown return against former IBF lightweight world champion Richard Commey (30-4-1, 27 KOs). Next, viewers will get a peek inside the training camp and daily life of the proud Mexican-American, Seniesa “Super Bad” Estrada (23-0, 9 KOs), the second female signing in Top Rank’s storied history. In the March 25 co-main event, the Los Angeles native defends her WBA minimumweight crown in a winner-take-all world title unification against WBC minimumweight queen Tina Rupprecht (12-0-1, 3 KOs).
Elwin Soto is set to face the challenge of Moises Caro on Saturday, November 23rd, 2024, at Plaza de Toros Calafia, Mexicali. The fight will take place over 10 rounds in the Jr Flyweight division, which means the weight limit will be 108 pounds.
Next up for Top Rank Boxing, The homecoming for heavyweight sensation Jared “The Real Big Baby” Anderson is still on, but the man in the opposing corner has changed. After undefeated Kazakh contender Zhan Kossobutskiy was forced to withdraw due to a delay in obtaining his visa, former world champion “Prince” Charles Martin has stepped up to face Anderson on Saturday, July 1 at the Huntington Center in Toledo, Ohio.
Bakary Samake will face Wade Ryan on Saturday, November 23rd, 2024, at Westfield, forum des halles, Paris. The fight will be contested over 12 rounds in the Super Welterweight division, which means the weight limit will be 154 pounds.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao, billed as The Fight of the Century, Battle for Greatness or Legacy, was a professional boxing match between the eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao and undefeated, five-division world champion Floyd Mayweather, Jr. The fight took place on May 2, 2015 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Made in Mexico: Navarrete vs. Valdez is a 30-minute cinematic presentation of the two Mexican warriors who will go mano a mano in the Arizona desert. The show previews the marquee main event between three-division world champion and defending WBO Jr. Lightweight titleholder Emanuel “Vaquero” Navarrete (37-1, 31 KO) and the former Mexican Olympian and two-division world champion Óscar Valdez (31-1, 23 KO).
Camp Life: Fulton vs Inoue is a Top Rank Boxing special on ESPN+ that goes inside the training camps of Naoya Inoue and Stephen Fulton before their huge title fight.
Mexican bantamweight Andres Teran will fight Colombian puncher Yehison Cuello in the 10-round main event this Saturday, Sept. 21, at Sala Urbana in Naucalpan, Mexico.
Ahead of their upcoming bouts in August and September, ESPN will air: Pressure: Xander Zayas & Bruce Carrington, a 30-minute retrospect of the most recent outings for two of Top Rank’s brightest rising blue-chip prospects. The show features a behind-the-scenes look at the June 10th Taylor-Lopez undercard as Puerto Rican sensation Xander Zayas (16-0, 10 KO) remained undefeated in New York City and claimed the honorary “Miguel Cotto Award” in his first fight on Puerto Rican Day Parade weekend. Also in action that night was Brooklyn phenom Bruce “Shu Shu” Carrington (8-0, 5 KO), and fight fans will have the opportunity to get a candid look at his spectacular knockout win on home turf.
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The Gentleman Boxer: Richard Torrez Jr. is a 30-minute candid look at the rising American heavyweight Richard Torrez Jr. (5-0, 5 KO) ahead of his upcoming special feature bout in Arizona. Fight fans will get to know the charismatic 24-year-old California native who took home a silver medal for the United States at the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Top of this bill is monster Mexican puncher, Emanuel Navarrete (31-1,1NC KO27), and he attempts to become a two-weight World Champion as he challenges for the vacant WBO Featherweight title left behind by Shakur Stevenson. Opposing Navarrete will be California’s Ruben Villa (18-0, KO5), who has fought nowhere near world level, but is unbeaten, and earns his shot following a spell as WBO International champion.
Fans will be treated to a feature both training camps ahead of the battle for the vacant WBO featherweight world championship between 29-year-old Cuban sensation Robeisy “El Tren” Ramírez (11-1, 7 KOs) and the 28-year-old Ghanaian former world champion Isaac “Royal Storm” Dogboe (24-2, 16 KOs).
Vianello vs. McFarlane was a boxing event that took place on Friday, October 28, 2022 at the Pala Atlántico in Roma, Lazio, Italy.
Trash Talk: Taylor vs. Lopez, is a 30-minute all-access preview into one of the most heated world title fights of the year. Viewers will see both fighters sound off in a verbal war as the show goes inside the fight camps of undefeated WBO junior welterweight world champion Josh Taylor (19-0, 13 KOs) and the former unified lightweight kingpin Teófimo Lopez (18-1, 13 KOs). It’s “The Tartan Tornado” vs. “The Takeover.” Taylor, the first British fighter to become undisputed champion in the four-belt era, proudly represents his native Scotland and is on the shortlist of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world today. Lopez, a native son of Brooklyn, New York, headlines for his third time at “The Mecca of Boxing,” where he seeks to become a two-division world champion and regain his place among the pound-for-pound elite.
Erik Bazinyan vs. Alantez Fox was a boxing event that took place on Thursday, February 2, 2023 at the Casino de Montreal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
José Ramírez vs. Josh Taylor, billed as Undisputed, is an professional boxing match contested between WBC and WBO champion, José Ramírez, and WBA (Super), IBF, and The Ring champion, Josh Taylor, with the winner set to become the undisputed light welterweight champion since Terence Crawford, in 2017 and the second in four-belt era. The bout took place on May 22, 2021, in Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, Paradise, Nevada.
