But are they the best heavyweights after champions Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua?Ĭanelo Alvarez, who owns the WBC and WBA super middleweight titles, is on his way to unifying the division. and Joseph Parker got up from the canvas to score impressive victories over Chris Arreola and Dereck Chisora, respectively, on Saturday. all the way back?įormer heavyweight world titleholder Andy Ruiz Jr. Real or Not: Can Canelo Alvarez KO his way to undisputed champion? Is Andy Ruiz Jr.
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Ramos, 29, of Casa Grande, Arizona, dropped a split decision to Ugas for a vacant secondary welterweight world title in last September.You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser The fight will be only Figueroa’s fourth since 2015. They are both coming off losses to Yordenis Ugas, who now holds a welterweight world title.įigueroa, 31, of Weslaco, Texas, who is the older brother of secondary junior featherweight world titlist Brandon Figueroa, has not fought since getting knocked down in the first round and losing a lopsided unanimous decision to Ugas in July 2019 on the Manny Pacquiao-Keith Thurman undercard at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
(28-1-1, 19 KOs) against Abel Ramos (26-4-2, 20 KOs) in a welterweight bout. 5 on the Fox Sports PPV undercard of unified welterweight titlist Errol Spence Jr.’s defense against Danny Garcia at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.Ĭota, 33, of Mexico, has won two fights in a row since suffering back-to-back losses to Jeison Rosario - who would go on to win a unified junior middleweight world title - by split decision in April 2019 and Jermell Charlo by third-round knockout as a late replacement in a June 2019 nontitle bout.Īnother fight on the pay-per-view will pit former lightweight world titlist Omar Figueroa Jr. In the co-feature, rising junior middleweight contender Sebastian Fundora (16-0-1, 11 KOs) will face Jorge Cota (30-4, 27 KOs) in a 12-round boutįundora, 23, a southpaw from Coachella, California, known as “The Towering Inferno” because at 6-foot-5 he is huge for a 154-pound fighter, impressed in his last fight when he annihilated former world title challenger Habib Ahmed in the second round on Dec. The undercard for the pay-per-view is also set, according the sources. In his world title fights, he was stopped by Vitali Klitschko in the 10th round in 2009, by Bermane Stiverne in the sixth round of their rematch in 2014 and by Deontay Wilder in the eighth round in 2016.Īfter the Wilder fight Arreola bounced back to win two lesser fights in a row but then lost his most recent bout in August 2019, when he dropped a unanimous decision to then-unbeaten Adam Kownacki in an all-out slugfest that set various CompuBox records for a heavyweight fight.
Ruiz did not fight at all in 2020.Īrreola (38-6-1, 33 KOs), who turned 40 on March 5, is 0-3 in world title fights but has always been in entertaining fights. But six months later, Joshua regained the belts in a one-sided decision victory over the dramatically out of shape Ruiz in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia. In June 2019, Ruiz (33-2, 22 KOs), 31, of Imperial, California, was a short-notice replacement when he knocked out Anthony Joshua in the seventh round to take his unified heavyweight title belts in a massive upset at Madison Square Garden in New York.
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