Regis Prograis will defend his 140-pound title towards Danielito Zorrilla on Saturday evening in New Orleans, Prograis’ hometown.
REGIS PROGRAIS (28-1, 24 KOs) vs. DANIELITO ZORRILLA (17-1, 13 KOs)
Date: Saturday, June 17
Time: 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT (predominant occasion later in present)
The place: Smoothie King Middle, New Orleans
TV/Stream: DAZN
Division: Junior welterweight (140 kilos)
At stake: Prograis’ WBC title
Odds: Prograis 10-1 favourite (common of a number of shops)
Additionally on the cardboard: Shakhram Giyasov vs. Harold Calderon, welterweights; Justis Huni vs. Andrew Tabiti, heavyweights; Ramla Ali vs. Julissa Alejandra Guzman, junior featherweights
Prediction: Prograis UD
Background: The gifted Prograis misplaced his WBA 140-pound belt and appreciable momentum to Josh Taylor by a majority resolution in a title-unification bout in 2019 however rebounded to win his final 4 fights, together with an Eleventh-round knockout of Jose Zepeda to win the vacant WBC title in November. The 34-year-old from New Orleans might now be on a collision course with Teofimo Lopez, who outpointed Taylor to take the Scot’s WBO belt this previous Saturday. After all, Prograis should get previous the unranked Zorrilla first. The 29-year-old Puerto Rican, a very good boxer-puncher, delivered high quality victories over Ruslan Madiyev and Pablo Cesar Cano in 2021 however then misplaced a transparent resolution to unbeaten Arnold Barboza Jr. final July, stemming his momentum. He bounced again with a first-round knockout of journeyman Aristides Quintero in March. Prograis had been scheduled to face Liam Paro however Paro pulled out due to an harm a couple of weeks in the past.
