Freudis Rojas hopes to capitalize on a brand new alternative.
Rojas will face Diego Sanchez within the opening bout of the Showtime Championship Boxing telecast Saturday night time, Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) introduced Wednesday afternoon.
The ten-round welterweight bout will happen on the Chelsea Ballroom inside The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas and can precede the primary occasion bout between undefeated lightweights Frank Martin and Artem Harutyunyan (10 p.m. ET/ 7 p.m. PT).
The Rojas-Sanchez was initially scheduled to happen in preliminary motion, however was moved as much as the Showtime telecast after the beforehand introduced conflict between Nonito Donaire and Alejandro Santiago will now happen on the undercard of the Errol Spence-Terence Crawford battle on July 29.
Rojas (10-0, 10 knockouts), who resides in Las Vegas, had an achieved novice profession, together with successful the bronze medal on the 2017 World Championships and was an alternate on the 2020 U.S. Olympic workforce.
The 24-year-old made his professional debut in January 2021 and has fought typically in the US, Mexico and Costa Rica, together with combating twice in lower than a two-week stretch in Might 2021. In his final bout on February 25, Rojas stopped journeyman Gilbert Venegas within the opening spherical.
Just lately, Rojas signed a promotional cope with Sampson Lewkowicz, who believes Rojas is the products and might make noise within the talent-rich welterweight division.
“Freudis Rojas will likely be a star within the welterweight division and extra,” mentioned Lewkowicz. “This younger Mexican-American has the workforce and the expertise, energy, and abilities to maneuver shortly up the ladder to a world championship, and I’m proud to have the ability to assist him get there.”
Sanchez (19-2, 16 KOs), who’s initially from Tijuana, Mexico and now resides in San Diego, California, has not fought since a knockout win over journeyman Daniel Valenzuela in December 2021.
Previous to the win over Valenzuela, Sanchez suffered back-to-back losses to Luis Hernandez Ramos and Jesus Madueno Angulo, each of whom have been unbeaten getting into the Sanchez battle.
Additionally on the Showtime telecast will likely be a ten spherical junior welterweight bout between Elvis Rodriguez (14-1-1, 12 KOs) of the Dominican Republic and former world titleholder Viktor Postol (31-4, 12 KOs).
Francisco A. Salazar has written for The Ring since October 2013 and has coated boxing in Southern California and overseas since 2000. Francisco additionally covers boxing for the Ventura County (California) Star newspaper. He may be reached at [email protected]
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