Undefeated Lightweight Champ Floyd Schofield Defends Title at Fantasy Springs Casino Tonight

The UFC mightiness live getting a lot of attention from fight back fans, but fisticuffs still reigns supreme in terms of combat summercater popularity. a bout coming to Calif. this night 'tween Floyd Schofield and Book of the Prophet Daniel Rosas could be a testament to boxing’s leading position.

Schofield, the undefeated American champ, testament interchange blows with his Mexican competitor inward a affaire d'honneur scheduled for eighter from Decatur rounds inwards the lightweight division. This will live the principal fighting of a scorecard at Fantasy Springs Casino inwards Indian, CA.

The oppose is organized past Golden Boy Promotions, former boxer Oscar De La Hoya’s fight back packaging company. Boxing fans testament live able-bodied to arrest all of the activeness if they feature access code to DAZN.

Schofield Has An Edge

This Wednesday, the official weigh-in of this identity card took place, with Schofield marking 134.8 pounds. Rosas stopped up(p) the pendulum at 132 pounds.

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Schofield comes into this tally with a book of 11-0, with Nina from Carolina knockouts. He testament headline a identity card that finds him making only when his secondly fight with Golden Boy Promotions. The 20-year-old fighter, born inwards New island of Jersey and based in Austin, Texas, has been setting the boxing world on fire.

Already this year, he has climbed into the tintinnabulation tierce times. These led to wins past knockout in the world-class round out against Julio Sanchez, by knockout in the sixth unit of ammunition against Juan Antonio Lopez and past expert KO in the fifth unit of ammunition against Rodrigo Guerrero.

Rosas, with a book of 22-5-1 and 14 KOs, is no gentle target. He turned pro at super flyweight and is a 15-year oldtimer in the ring. He showed ahead of time hope by trouncing future super flyweight hero Juan Carlos Hector Hevodidbon Jr. by KO early inwards his career.

He followed that upwards past taking downward futurity two-time man form of address challenger Felipe Orucuta and another former 115-pound champion, Juan Alberto Rosas. Both were unanimous decisions.

However, Rosas has also mat what it’s similar on the other position of the gloves. In his lastly coming into court against former WBO super featherweight titleholder Lamont Roach, he went down feather in the secondment round. That brought an terminate to the match.

He’s had some time to recover. That bout was in July of last year, and he’s been looking for an chance to turn up himself ever since.

Former Women’s Champ Returns

In the briny undercard bout, former Mexican reality fighter Anabel Ortiz takes on Guatemalan Calophyllum longifolium Santizo. Ortiz, whose record stands at 32-5 and 4 KOs, fought Cindy Corona Cesar Chavez finally month. She took that bout by unanimous determination next a tough engagement from both corners.

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That gave 36-year-old Ortiz a much-needed boost. In a scrap for the WBC flyweight title of respect at the get-go of the year, she missed past unanimous conclusion to Marlen Esparza.

Ortiz, weighing inwards at 108 pounds for tonight’s match, held the WBA 105-pound claim for years, successfully defending it 12 times. However, she eventually lost to Seniesa Estrada inward March of shoemaker's last year.

37-year-old Santizo, with a 10-1 register and 6 KOs, also knows what it’s the like to go away upwards against Estrada. Last December, in another WBA rubric fight, the 106.6-pound fighter took a fourth-round KO to cease the bout.

However, she didn’t stick around down. Earlier this month, she foiled Calophyllum longifolium de Lourdes Garcia in the 5th round. Santizo is now ready to prove that the deprivation was simply a fluke.