Jaime Munguia, Erik Bazinyan Make Weight For ESPN Headliner From Glendale, Arizona
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Jaime Munguia is set for the next phase of his still promising career.
The former WBO junior middleweight titlist and current 168-pound contender is set for his first fight since the lone loss of his career. Tijuana’s Munguia was 167.7 pounds, whiel Canada’s Erik Bazinyan weighed 167.9 pounds.
Their scheduled 12-round super middleweight bout headlines an ESPN tripleheader Friday from Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona.
Munguia (43-1, 34 knockouts) is coming off a May 4 defeat to RING super middleweight champion Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez (62-2-2, 39 KOs). Their bout marked Munguia’s first fight as a Pay-Per-View headliner.
Friday marks his debut on ESPN and aligned with Top Rank. He enters the fight as The Ring’s No. 2-rated super middleweight.
Top Rank went all in for his first fight under its umbrella. His weigh-in entrance came complete with a promotional package and a live mariachi band.
Bazinyan (32-0-1, 23 KOs) is no stranger to the platform. The Ring’s No. 7-rated contender has appeared on ESPN+ several times under Camille Estephan’s Eye of the Tiger Management promotion.
His last outing took some shine off his career progress, however. Bazinyan endured his first blemish in a ten-round draw with unheralded Shakeel Phinn on May 2 in Montreal.
The bout versus Munguia is Bazinyan’s first on U.S. soil since 2019.
ESPN undercard (10:30 p.m. ET/7:30 p.m. PT)
Richard Torrez Jr (10-0, 10 KOs), Tulare, California, 232.6 pounds
Joey Dawejko (28-11-4, 16 KOs), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 244.1 pounds
8 rounds, heavyweight
Emiliano Vargas (11-0, 9 KOs), Las Vegas via Oxnard, California, 139.2 pounds
Larry Fryers (13-6-1, 5 KOs), Clones, Ireland, 138.2 pounds
8 rounds, junior weltertweight
ESPN+ preliminary undercard (6:15 p.m. ET/3:15 p.m. PT)
Charly Suarez (17-0, 9 KOs), Manila, Philippines, 129.4 pounds
Jorge Castaneda (17-3, 13 KOs), Laredo, Texas, 129.1 pounds
10 rounds, junior lightweight
Alan Garcia (14-0, 11 KOs), Ulysses, Kansas, pounds, 137.3 pounds
Ricardo Fernandez (15-13, 1 KO), Longoro, Spain, 137.2 pounds
Demler “DJ” Zamora (13-0, 9 KOs), Las Vegas, Nevada, 130.7 pounds
Gerardo Antonio Perez (12-5-1, KOs), Salta, Argentina 133.2 pounds*
8 rounds, junior lightweight (131-pound contract limit; *Perez 2.2 pounds over)
Steven Navarro (3-0, 3 KOs), Los Angeles, California, 115.2 pounds
Oscar Arroyo (3-2, 2 KOs), West Hempstead, New York, 114.4 pounds
6 rounds, junior bantamweight
Jorge Garcia (30-4, 25 KOs), Los Mochis, Mexico, 156.2 pounds
Ilias Essaoudi (22-2, 15 KOs), Fort Myers, Florida via Offenbach, Germany 156.6 pounds
10 rounds, junior middleweight
Sebastian Hernandez (16-0, 15 KOs), San Diego via Tijuana, Mexico, 120.4 pounds
Yonfrez Parejo (24-6-1, 12 KOs), Las Vegas via Valencia, Venezuela, 125 pounds
8 rounds, junior featherweight (*Parejo well over the limit)
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