ESPN’s Mike Coppinger revealed over the weekend that tremendous light-weight contender Arnold Barboza Jr is now a free agent after parting methods with Prime Rank.
Per Coppinger, Barboza (28-0, 10 KO) is free to contact different promoters, although Prime Rank has matching rights for the following six months.
The cut up seems to have been utterly amicable. Prime Rank matchmaker Bruce Trampler wished Barboza the very best and supervisor Rick Mirigian claims the promotion “did their finest” to safe a battle with Teofimo Lopez.
“I need to thank Prime Rank, Bob Arum, Bruce Trampler and Brad Goodman for eight superb years and creating me into one of many high contenders in my division,” Barboza mentioned. “I additionally need to thank the crew at ESPN for the years time. I now stay up for making an attempt to safe the very best and largest fights on the market and with my supervisor Rick Mirigian and father Arnold Sr. I do know this will probably be achieved.”
Assuming Barboza doesn’t swap gears and pursue one of many different three titles, he’s in line to battle Jose Ramirez Jr sooner or later. The pair, who sit atop the WBO rankings, had been briefly teed up for a vacant title battle, however that fell by when Lopez, by his personal admission, unretired particularly to spite Barboza and Devin Haney. Haney-Lopez would presumably name for a Barboza-Ramirez eliminator.
Although they’re now not formally stablemates, the circumstances ought to hypothetically make it simple to place the battle collectively.
