Fight Week Preview: 5/15-21

The week's boxing action kicks off on the upstart and exciting PROBOX series in Plant City Florida and three undefeated Florida residents will be on display. In the evening's main event  29-year-old  Georgian native who now fights out of Miami "Pitbull" Otar Eranosyan will put his 12-0 (6) record on the line against rugged veteran  Edy Valencia Mercado 20-10-6 (7). Also on ther card is undefeated super middleweight, southpaw, Darrelle Valsaint. The 20-year-old  from Orlando sports a perfect 7-0 (5) and takes on rugged veteran Eric Moon who has been in the ring with the likes of Mike Guy and Edgar Berlanga. The card also features 8-0 (6) Marques Valle and 1-0 (1) lightweight De Von Williams.

That will serve as an appetizer to Saturday's huge day of action as 22-0 (6) Katir Tayloe of Bray, Ireland, returns to her native country to take on  Chantelle Cameron at the 3Arena in Dublin for all the belts at 140. The undercard features an interesting showdown for the IBO 154-pound title as Dennis Hogan tajes on James Metcalf and Teri Harper battles the legendary Cecilia Braekhus for the WBA 154-pound title.

Then the action moves over to the MGM Grand in Las Vegas as Devin Haney 29-0 (15) defends all the lightweight belts against former unified lightweight champ Vasyl Lomachenko. The undercard featrues an intriguing bout between former 112-pound world champ Junto Nakatani and former 115-pound world champ Andrew Moloney. Moloney will look to capture a vacant belt just like his brother Jason, did last week. The card also features the rematch of the 2019 scrap between Oscar Valdez and Adam Lopez the pair fought in 2019 and Lopez a large betting underdog and last minute repleacement was battling well and dropped Valdez early  until a very controversial stoppage in the seventh round gave Valdez a hotly disputed TKO victory. The card also features a plethora of Top Ranks top prospects, Floyd Diaz, Nico Ali Walsh and Abdullah Mason will all get in the ring.

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