Fight Weekend Preview
On a weekend that is supposed to be the calm before the storm, we actually have a nice little weekend of fighting. Three cards over Friday and Saturday. The action starts in Scotland at the Meadowbank Sports Centre in Edinburgh as hometown hero "Lightning" Lee McGregor, 12-0-1 (9), returns to the ring as he looks to pick up his second consecutive win following his disputed draw with Diego Alberto Ruiz back in February of 2022. He came back and scored a lopsided points victory in March and now takes on hard-hitting Mexican contender Erik Robles 13-1 (9), for the vacant IBO Super Bantamweight strap. Robles has one career defeat, a stoppage loss in March of 2020 to Carlos Daniel Acosta in a Super Featherweight affair. He has won seven consecutive since his lone defeat.
On the undercard is highly touted good-looking prospect Sultan Zaurbek, a KO artist from Uzbekistan who sports a perfect 14-0 (10). He will take on John Carter of Spain, 15-0-1 (7), in a battle of unbeatens. Harlem Eubank, son of legendary former world champ Chris Eubank will look to run his record to 18-0 against Ishmael Ellis.
The action moves to the US for the remainder of the weekend for a busy little local card at the DoubleTree in Ontario, California. Slick-moving George Acosta, 15-1 (2) from Long Beach, California, looks to remain hot in battling Edy Valencio Mercado in the evening's main event. Acosta's lone defeat came in 2019 against Ruben Torres. He has ran off eight consecutive wins including recent wins over Marlon Sims and Isaac Avelar. Also on the card is Luis Lopez, who looks to bounce back from his loss in March to Angel Beltran at the same location. Prior to that defeat, Lopez, 13-2-1 (4), had defeated three unbeaten in a row who had a combined record of 27-0-3.
The action concludes in the obscure town of Shawnee, Oklahoma, as former undefeated 135-pound world champ George Kambosos, 20-2 (10), looks to bounce back from his back-to-back consecutive defeats to Devin Haney as he takes on Maxi Hughes, 26-5-2 (5), of Yorkshire, England. Hughes is a surging fighter that has won seven consecutive fights, including victories over Jono Carroll, Paul Hyland, Ryan Walsh, and most recently, a career-best win in outpointing Kid Galahad last September.
In the CO-main event, US Olympian and all-world prospect undefeated lightweight Keyshawn Davis, 8-0 (6), take another step up and battles Francesco Patera, 28-3 (10), who is unbeaten since a 2017 loss to Edis Tatli. Also, San Diego native Giovani Santillan, 3-0 (16,) battles rugged veteran Erik Bone, 27-6 (14).
