Fight-Size Boxing Update: Spence Calls Out Pacquiao, David Avanesyan TKO’s Kerman Lejarraga, More
Here’s your fight-size boxing update for September 29, 2019:
– In the video at the top of the page, newly-minted unified welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr. called out Manny Pacquiao to a fight.
– In a repeat of his upset win back in March, David Avanesyan scored a first-round TKO win over Kerman Lejarraga to retain the EBU European welterweight title on September 28 in Bilbao, Spain.
– Floyd Mayweather was in attendance for Spence’s split decision win over Shawn Porter in Los Angeles.
The Money Team is in the house! —
You knew @FloydMayweather wouldn’t miss this huge world welterweight unification bout. #SpencePorter pic.twitter.com/MM18wem4VT
— FOX Sports: PBC (@PBConFOX) September 29, 2019
– Unbeaten rising middleweight contender Carlos Monroe scored a split decision win against former world title challenger Javier Francisco Maciel on September 28 in Atlanta.
– The latest edition of the Fightful Boxing Podcast can be seen below, dissecting the entire Spence vs. Porter show, plus the news of Deontay WIlder vs. Luis Ortiz 2 being announced.
– Super flyweight contender Jose “Chiquiro” Martinez, who fought in a WBO title eliminator in January, announced on social media that he isn’t retiring and that he is currently negotiating his next fight.
– Here are the BBBofC Award winners with the time period for the award candidates being from August 2018 to August 2019:
- Boxer of the Year: Callum Smith
- Trainer of the Year: Joe Gallagher
- Fight of the Year: Josh Warrington vs. Carl Frampton, December 2018
- Commonwealth Trophy: Josh Taylor
- Overseas Boxer of the Year: Oleksandr Usyk
– French heavyweight prospect Tony Yoka stopped Michael Wallisch in three rounds on September 28 in France. Souleymane Cissokho, managed by Anthony Joshua, won a 10-round decision against Dmitry Mikhaylenko on that same card.
– Former WBC flyweight champion Daigo Higa has been trying to get the Japanese Boxing Commission to lift his suspension for failing to make weight for a title defense earlier this year, according to Asian Boxing. Higa hopes to return to the ring before the end of 2019.
