Unbeaten Lester Martinez isn’t letting an ailment derail his plans.
Martinez, rated No. 9 by The Ring at 168 kilos, will face Joeshon James on November 9, ProBox TV’s Chris Glover informed The Ring Monday night time. The ten-round bout will happen on the Osceola Heritage Park Occasion Heart in Kissimmee, Florida and can stream dwell on the ProBox TV utility and YouTube channel.
The Martinez-James battle was initially scheduled to happen on September 11 on the Whitesands (often known as the ProBox TV) Occasions Heart in close by Plant Metropolis.
The Martinez-Jones battle is a compelling conflict between two unbeaten tremendous middleweights who defeated stable opposition to get up to now of their respective careers.
Martinez (18-0, 15 knockouts) scored a powerful unanimous choice victory over contender Carlos Gongora in his final bout on June 28. It was a one-sided victory over Gongora, who fought to a detailed choice to contender Christian Mbilli.
In his earlier battle on February 23, in his hometown of Guatemala Metropolis, Guatemala, Martinez dropped journeyman Ruben Angulo as soon as en path to a second spherical knockout victory in a stay-busy battle.
The 28-year-old is co-trained by Brian ‘Bomac’ McIntyre, Esau Dieguez, and Purple Spikes, all of whom additionally co-train newly-crowned WBA world junior middleweight titleholder Terence Crawford.
Martinez and Crawford generated buzz a number of weeks in the past after a photograph of them sparring one another in a Las Vegas gymnasium made the rounds of social media. Crawford wished to spar Martinez in anticipation of a chance to battle Ring Journal tremendous middleweight champion and unified world titleholder Canelo Alvarez.
Previous to the handful of fights beneath the ProBox TV banner, Martinez did cease once-beaten Isaiah Steen on April 10 of final 12 months.
James (9-0-2, 5 KOs), who resides in Sacramento, California, defeated Vaughn Alexander by unanimous choice in his final bout on February 16. In his earlier battle on October 21, James stopped David Stevens within the opening spherical of a conflict between unbeaten prospects.
The 26-year-old went by a stretch of preventing 4 consecutive fighters with unbeaten information, culminating within the knockout win over Stevens. James scored a knockout win over Richard Brewart, Jr. in September 2022 and a split-decision draw towards Javier Martinez virtually eight months later.
James has confronted a complete of six unbeaten fighters so far in his profession.
Francisco A. Salazar has written for The Ring since October 2013 and has lined boxing in Southern California and overseas since 2000. Francisco additionally covers boxing for the Ventura County (California) Star newspaper. He will be reached at [email protected]
