Junior welterweight prospect Mohamed Soumaoro resides as much as the boxing truism that one loss doesn’t outline a profession.
Soumaoro will face unbeaten Angel Vazquez in a compelling conflict Wednesday night time on the Whitesands (ProBox TV) Occasions Middle in Plant Metropolis, Florida. The ten-round bout will headline a three-bout telecast on ProBox TV (8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT).
At Tuesday’s weigh-in, each fighters weighed in at 139.8 kilos.
Soumaoro (12-1, 5 knockouts), who’s initially from Conakry, Guinea and now resides in Montreal, Canada, defeated newbie standout Jusiyah Shirley, who entered the bout unbeaten, by unanimous resolution in his final bout on December 2. The win over Shirley additionally came about in Plant Metropolis.
The 30-year-old has received his final two fights since shedding by majority resolution to Elysson Marquez in February 2020. Soumoaro has fought in Canada and Nicaragua.
Vazquez (12-0, 6 KOs), who resides in San Luis Colorado, Mexico, defeated unbeaten prospect Nicholas Sullivan in his final bout on December 17. The win over Sullivan came about precisely one 12 months after Vazquez defeated Carlos Guardado Maldonado by resolution over eight one-sided rounds.
The 22-year-old has confronted higher opposition, on paper, in current fights. His first 9 fights as a professional have been towards fighters with non-winning data.
Chris Glover, ProBox TV government, said the upstart promotional firm based mostly in Florida needs to supply boxing followers with aggressive fights. The Soumoaro-Vazquez is one other instance of what Glover believes is aggressive matchmaking.
“It’s going to be a fantastic combat,” Glover instructed The Ring Tuesday afternoon. “ProBox TV is about elevating these fighters to the following stage and this combat does that. We need to give boxing followers high quality fights for what they pay for.”
Within the co-feature, junior light-weight prospect Dominic Valle (5-0, 4 KOs) of close by Lutz will sq. off towards Carlos Rosario.
Valle defeated Jose Antonio Meza by unanimous resolution in his final bout on November 4. The 22-year-old is the dual brother of unbeaten junior middleweight prospect Marques Valle, each of whom combat beneath the ProBox TV banner.
Rosario (5-1, 3 KOs), who’s initially from Fajardo, Puerto Rico and now resides in Winter Haven, Florida, misplaced to Ezequiel Borrero in a conflict of unbeaten fighters, which additionally came about on November 4.
Within the opening bout, hard-hitting welterweight Demontaze Duncan (8-0, 8 KOs) of Louisville, Kentucky will face Puerto Rico’s Axl Melendez Salgado (5-0, 4 KOs) in a six-round bout.
The 20-year-old Duncan has but to combat previous the third spherical.
Francisco A. Salazar has written for The Ring since October 2013 and has coated boxing in Southern California and overseas since 2000. Francisco additionally covers boxing for the Ventura County (California) Star newspaper. He might be reached at [email protected]
