Regis Prograis is able to deliver big-time boxing again residence to New Orleans – beginning along with his WBC World Tremendous-Light-weight title protection towards Danielito Zorrilla on Saturday June 17 on the Smoothie King Heart in New Orleans, Louisiana, reside worldwide on DAZN.
Prograis (28-1 24 KOs) is trying to shine in his first struggle at residence since beating Terry Flanagan in October 2018 as he goals to land the unification fights he craves within the second half of 2023, with undisputed on his thoughts in 2024.
‘Rougarou’ fights below the Matchroom banner for the primary time on June 17, and along with his new partnership with Eddie Hearn, the 34 12 months outdated is closely concerned in the remainder of the cardboard, making certain an all-Lousiana bout between New Orleans’ Jeremy Hill (18-3 11 KOs) takes on Baton Rouge’s Mark Davis (19-1 5 KOs) over eight at Light-weight, and Houston-based 2020 Olympian Ginny Fuchs (2-0 1 KO), being suggested by Prograis, fights for the third time within the paid ranks on the cardboard towards Indeya Smith (6-7-2 1 KO) over eight rounds at Tremendous-Flyweight.
Prograis admits that fighter administration and promotion might be in his future, however the WBC king says that there are a lot of extra chapters to be written in his personal preventing profession first, beginning with a long-awaited return to the Large Straightforward.
“The final time I fought in New Orleans it was good, however that is the Smoothie King Heart, it’s on a special degree, I’m ecstatic,” stated Prograis. “You may’t absorb the second an excessive amount of as a result of I nonetheless need to go on the market and struggle, I nonetheless want to try this, but it surely’s actually a dream come true as a result of developing, after I first began boxing, I wished to struggle there – it was a two-part dream, struggle on the Smoothie King Heart after which on the Superdome, so that is the primary massive step in direction of doing one thing enormous in my metropolis.
“We’re beginning Rougarou Promotions with this card and with my partnership with Eddie, I really feel we’re taking extra management and route not simply of my future within the ring, however with different fighters. I stated for the undercard ‘I would like this man, I would like Ginny’ – that’s what I need to do. It is smart if we’re bringing massive time boxing to New Orleans that we now have some fighters from right here on the cardboard.
“I don’t know if I need to be a promoter per se, and I really feel that I’ve a great distance left in my very own profession, however proper now at residence, I do need to have NOLA fighters on the cardboard and to assist them shine. I’m within the health club in New Orleans and Houston, I see the expertise on the market, so after I struggle, I would like folks to see them.
“It’s going to blow it up. We did the Lakefront in 2018, however that is massive. Eddie stated ‘pay attention, if we do good, we’re going to maintain coming again’. In order that’s why we want everybody to return out as a result of it may be a daily factor. This was once a boxing city, but it surely light over time, so if we do good, I believe it will grow to be a daily factor.
“Because the champion, you should be even hungrier as these contenders are coming for you and that they need what you bought. There are wolves behind me all day lengthy, so my mindset needs to be that there’s fighters everywhere in the world which can be coming for me and I have to outwork them, out prepare them, be hungrier than them – I’ve to be on my A-game every single day.”
