JAIME MUNGUIA will return to the ring on September 20 however with a brand new promoter in his nook.

The shock information, revealed by ESPN, sees the Mexican super-middleweight be a part of forces with High Rank in a multi-fight co-promotional take care of Zanfer severing ties with Golden Boy Promotions.

Munguia, who misplaced final trip to compatriot and undisputed 168lbs champion Canelo Alvarez, will reportedly face Erik Bazinyan on September 20. And in one other change to his group the 27-year-old will not be educated by Freddie Roach, as an alternative he’ll reunite with coach and former four-weight world champion Erik Morales.

The transfer will come as an enormous blow to Golden Boy Promotions and their promoter Oscar De La Hoya who’ve labored with Munguia since his first world title battle in Could 2018. That fourth-round stoppage win towards Sadam Ali gave Munguia the WBO super-welterweight championship, his solely world title so far in a profession which noticed him marketing campaign at middleweight between 2020 and 2022.

Munguia’s different profession highlights got here in a win towards Sergiy Derevyanchenko 13 months in the past in a barn burner of a battle. The Tijuana boxer adopted that up by beating John Ryder in 9 rounds in January.

His sole defeat got here in Could when the all-Mexican conflict with Canelo went the way in which of the undisputed champion by unanimous resolution which noticed Munguia down in spherical 4.

High Rank made one other super-middleweight transfer earlier within the 12 months once they signed a co-promotional take care of main contender Christian Mbilli. The Cameroon-born Frenchman stopped Britain’s Mark Heffron in a single spherical in Could and returns to the ring on August 17 towards Derevyanchenko. Ought to Mbilli and Munguia come via their subsequent checks then it’s possible that we may even see them collide on the finish of 2024 or someday in 2025.