Jaime Munguia (left) and Erik Bazinyan face off throughout Wednesday’s remaining press convention. They meet Friday atop an ESPN tripleheader from Desert Diamond Enviornment in Glendale, Arizona. Photograph credit score: Mikey Williams, High Rank
Jaime Munguia is ready for the following section of his nonetheless promising profession.
The previous WBO junior middleweight titlist and present 168-pound contender is ready for his first struggle because the lone lack of his profession. Tijuana’s Munguia was 167.7 kilos, whiel Canada’s Erik Bazinyan weighed 167.9 kilos.
Their scheduled 12-round tremendous middleweight bout headlines an ESPN tripleheader Friday from Desert Diamond Enviornment in Glendale, Arizona.
Munguia (43-1, 34 knockouts) is coming off a Could 4 defeat to RING tremendous middleweight champion Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez (62-2-2, 39 KOs). Their bout marked Munguia’s first struggle as a Pay-Per-View headliner.
Friday marks his debut on ESPN and aligned with High Rank. He enters the struggle as The Ring’s No. 2-rated tremendous middleweight.
High Rank went all in for his first struggle below its umbrella. His weigh-in entrance got here full with a promotional package deal and a stay mariachi band.
Bazinyan (32-0-1, 23 KOs) is not any stranger to the platform. The Ring’s No. 7-rated contender has appeared on ESPN+ a number of instances below Camille Estephan’s Eye of the Tiger Administration promotion.
His final outing took some shine off his profession progress, nevertheless. Bazinyan endured his first blemish in a ten-round draw with unheralded Shakeel Phinn on Could 2 in Montreal.
The bout versus Munguia is Bazinyan’s first on U.S. soil since 2019.
ESPN undercard (10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT)
Richard Torrez Jr (10-0, 10 KOs), Tulare, California, 232.6 poundsJoey Dawejko (28-11-4, 16 KOs), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 244.1 pounds8 rounds, heavyweight
Emiliano Vargas (11-0, 9 KOs), Las Vegas by way of Oxnard, California, 139.2 poundsLarry Fryers (13-6-1, 5 KOs), Clones, Eire, 138.2 pounds8 rounds, junior weltertweight
ESPN+ preliminary undercard (6:15 p.m. ET/3:15 p.m. PT)
Charly Suarez (17-0, 9 KOs), Manila, Philippines, 129.4 poundsJorge Castaneda (17-3, 13 KOs), Laredo, Texas, 129.1 pounds10 rounds, junior light-weight
Alan Garcia (14-0, 11 KOs), Ulysses, Kansas, kilos, 137.3 poundsRicardo Fernandez (15-13, 1 KO), Longoro, Spain, 137.2 kilos
Demler “DJ” Zamora (13-0, 9 KOs), Las Vegas, Nevada, 130.7 poundsGerardo Antonio Perez (12-5-1, KOs), Salta, Argentina 133.2 kilos*8 rounds, junior light-weight (131-pound contract restrict; *Perez 2.2 kilos over)
Steven Navarro (3-0, 3 KOs), Los Angeles, California, 115.2 poundsOscar Arroyo (3-2, 2 KOs), West Hempstead, New York, 114.4 pounds6 rounds, junior bantamweight
Jorge Garcia (30-4, 25 KOs), Los Mochis, Mexico, 156.2 poundsIlias Essaoudi (22-2, 15 KOs), Fort Myers, Florida by way of Offenbach, Germany 156.6 pounds10 rounds, junior middleweight
Sebastian Hernandez (16-0, 15 KOs), San Diego by way of Tijuana, Mexico, 120.4 poundsYonfrez Parejo (24-6-1, 12 KOs), Las Vegas by way of Valencia, Venezuela, 125 pounds8 rounds, junior featherweight (*Parejo nicely over the restrict)
