Patrick Teixeira is already eyeing future choices forward of his scheduled ring return.
The previous WBO junior middleweight titlist is ready to headline an August 27 present in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Teixeira will face Colombia’s Carlos Rivero (22-1-1, 12KOs) in a scheduled ten-round regional junior middleweight title battle.
With a win, the Brazilian southpaw would love to select off a divisional younger gun to ignite one other title run.
“I am joyful to return to the ring on August twenty seventh,” Teixeira instructed BoxingScene.com. “After this battle I need a battle exterior Brazil. I’ve plenty of opponents I want to face 154. Israil Madrimov, Liam Smith, Brian Mendoza, Sebastian Fundora, Erickson Lubin, Tony Harrison.
“The one I most wish to face can be Xander Zayas.”
Teixeira (32-4, 23KOs) has not fought since a first-round knockout of Adrian Perez final November 26 in Sorocaba, Brazil. The 32-year-old from Sombrio—roughly 12 hours from his subsequent battle vacation spot in Sao Paulo—was on account of battle July 8 however was compelled to withdraw roughly per week prior on account of a coaching camp harm.
The arrogance-restoring win final December snapped a three-fight skid, together with a February 2021 factors loss to then-unbeaten Brian Castano which ended his WBO junior middleweight title reign. Teixeira received the interim WBO belt in a twelve-round win over an undefeated Carlos Adames in November 2019 and was upgraded to full champ simply 5 days later, fittingly on his twenty ninth birthday.
The loss to Castano was adopted by a 14-month ring absence and a questionable disqualification loss to Paul Valenzuela final April 9 on the Ryan Garcia-Emmanuel Tagoe undercard in San Antonio. He took the bout after plans fell by for a conflict with Russia’s Magomed Kurbanov because of the Russia-Ukraine battle. Their rescheduled bout final July 9 noticed Teixeira undergo a gap spherical knockdown en path to a ten-round, unanimous determination defeat.
Now again within the win column, Teixeira plans to make his subsequent battle in Brazil the final one for some time. A street journey is welcomed for a battle with Zayas (16-0, 10KOs), the 20-year-old Puerto Rican prospect primarily based out of South Florida. The logic utilized by Teixeira is for him to earn a battle with the division’s greater names—and likewise for Zayas to show himself as a future star.
“Zayas ought to face a good opponent,” insists Teixeira. “If he desires to show to Puerto Rico that he’s an actual fighter like [Miguel] Cotto and [Felix “Tito”] Trinidad he ought to battle actual fighters.
“It will be superior to battle him in Puerto Rico, and present the general public that he isn’t a star.”
Jake Donovan is a senior author for BoxingScene.com. Twitter: @JakeNDaBox
