Jared Anderson will face an undefeated opponent for simply the second time as a professional when he returns to the ring April 8.
BoxingScene.com has discovered that George Arias has agreed to battle the rising, hard-hitting heavyweight in a 10-round co-feature ESPN will broadcast that evening from Prudential Middle in Newark, New Jersey. Anderson-Arias will instantly precede a principal occasion during which Newark native Shakur Stevenson and Japan’s Shuichiro Yoshino will sq. off in a 12-round WBC light-weight elimination match.
Anderson (13-0, 13 KOs), who’s promoted by Bob Arum’s High Rank Inc., will look to maintain his knockout streak intact in opposition to Arias (18-0, 7 KOs), a local of the Dominican Republic who resides within the Bronx, New York. The 31-year-old Arias isn’t almost as huge a puncher as Anderson, however he has overwhelmed undefeated fighters in three of his previous 4 bouts.
Arias most lately edged Cleveland’s Alante Inexperienced (then 10-0-1) by cut up determination in an eight-rounder that occurred June 10 at Turning Stone Resort On line casino in Verona, New York. Within the bout earlier than he beat Inexperienced, Arias defeated Philadelphia’s Cassius Chaney (then 21-0) by cut up determination in a 10-rounder that occurred in December 2021 at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York.
As for the 23-year-old Anderson, the punishing puncher from Toledo, Ohio obliterated sturdy veteran Jerry Forrest in his final bout.
Forrest attacked Anderson as quickly as their 10-rounder started December 10 at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York. Anderson withstood Forrest’s quick begin, unloaded a barrage of damaging photographs on him and later stopped Forrest within the second spherical.
Referee David Fields halted the motion at 1:34 of the second spherical, when Forrest seemed to be out on his ft. Anderson grew to become simply the second opponent in Forrest’s 34-fight skilled profession to beat him by knockout.
Previous to his loss to Anderson, Forrest (26-6-2, 20 KOs) hadn’t misplaced inside the space since Gerald Washington (then 8-0) knocked him out within the second spherical of their August 2013 bout in Indio, California.
None of Anderson’s previous 5 fights have lasted past the second spherical.
Keith Idec is a senior author/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He might be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.
