Fight Night Program – Week of July 26-31

The weekend is approaching, and from Friday to Sunday it will be “fight-o-clock” somewhere in the world. Every Thursday, The Ring will bring you the most up-to-date information on the most relevant fights you need to see in this week-at-a-glance, one-stop enhanced fight schedule. A quick checklist for the cognoscenti, a useful nuts-and-bolts guide for the boxing neophyte is what we’re aiming at.

Here are this week’s most relevant fights:

Friday, July 26 – Caribe Club Royale, Orlando, Fla.  

Jan Paul Rivera vs. Justin Goodson – featherweight – 8 rounds

Dainier Pero vs. James Evans – heavyweight – 8 rounds

David Garcia vs. Dominicc Hardy – heavyweight – 6 rounds

Krystal Rosado vs. Veronika Dmitriyeva – women’s bantamweight – 6 rounds

Damazion VanHouter vs. Cody Kerr – heavyweight – 6 rounds

Kaipo Gallegos vs. Armando Frausto – lightweight – 6 rounds

Where to watch it: DAZN

Friday, July 26 – Commerce Casino, Commerce, Calif.

Omar Trinidad vs. Viktor Slavinskyi – featherweight – 10 rounds

Gor Yeritsyan vs. Aram Amirkhanyan – welterweight – 10 rounds

Adan Palma vs. Roberto Pucheta – junior featherweight – 6 rounds

Iyana Verduzco vs. Colleen Davis – female featherweight – 6 rounds

Where to watch it: UFC Fight Pass

Friday, July 26 – Tropicana Hotel, Atlantic City, N.J.

Otto Wallin vs. Onoriode Ehwaeieme – heavyweight – 8 rounds

Justin Figueroa vs. Freddy Espinoza – junior middleweight – 6 rounds

Stacia Suttles vs. Kalindra Faria – women’s junior welterweight – 4 rounds

Bruce Seldon Jr. vs. Isaiah Margheim – heavyweight – 4 rounds

Where to watch it: BoxingInsider.com

Saturday, July 27 – O2 Arena, London

Joe Joyce vs. Derek Chisora – heavyweight – 12 rounds

We live in a great era for British heavyweight boxing. Flashy, flamboyant, funny and feisty, for the most part. They are a promoter’s dream, and they never fail to produce entertaining pre-fight build-ups followed by terrific clashes most of the time. This one should continue that same tradition. It’s always great for boxing when the big guys are out there getting some attention from casual and hardcore fans alike. Should be a fun affair to watch.

Also on this card:

Dennis McCann vs. Ionut Baluta – junior featherweight – 12 rounds

Ryan Garner vs. Archie Sharp – junior lightweight – 10 rounds

Moses Itauna vs. Mariusz Wach – heavyweight – 10 rounds

Raven Chapman vs. Yohana Sarabia – women’s featherweight – 10 rounds

Sean Noakes vs. Inder Bassi – welterweight – 10 rounds

Brandun Lee vs. Juan Anacona – junior welterweight – 8 rounds

Aadam Hamed vs. Georgi Velichkov – junior welterweight – 4 rounds

Where to watch it: ESPN+

Saturday, July 27 – Little Caesars Arena, Detroit  

Vanessa Lepage-Joanisse vs. Claressa Shields – light heavyweight – 10 rounds

Yes, we’ve seen this before. The Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Donny Lalonde fiasco had all the same ingredients: a fighter with an oversized ego trying to add two lines to his resume in one single fight, scoring two titles in a single day’s work. This will be no different, since they will be fighting for Lepage-Joanisse’s WBC women’s heavyweight and the vacant WBO light heavyweight title at the same time. Truly, Shields’ commitment to become the GWOAT didn’t need this cheap ploy. But her ambition and the greed of the two sanctioning bodies in question, for whom no sanctioning fee is too small, have allowed this to happen. Should be a good fight, though.

Also on this card:

Shohjahon Ergashev vs. Julian Smith – junior welterweight – 10 rounds

Michel Rivera vs. Hugo Alberto Roldan – junior welterweight – 10 rounds

Ernesto Mercado vs. Hector Edgardo Sarmiento – junior welterweight – 10 rounds

Cameran Pankey vs. Shaileik Paisley – featherweight – 6 rounds

Where to watch it: DAZN

Saturday, July 27 – County Coliseum, El Paso, Texas

Stephanie Han vs. Miranda Reyes – women’s lightweight – 8 rounds

Yadira Bustillos vs. Amy Salinas – women’s flyweight – 8 rounds

Jorge Tovar vs. Lester Medrano – middleweight – 6 rounds

Dwayne Bonds vs. Jason Phillips – welterweight – 6 rounds

Saturday, July 27 – Tolworth Recreation Ctr., Tolworth, England

Daniel Francis vs. Jensen Irvin – welterweight – 8 rounds

Tony Yoka vs. Amine Boucetta – heavyweight – 8 rounds

Shamari McKay vs. Karl Sampson – junior welterweight – 6 rounds

Thomas Galbraith vs. Elliot Eboigbe – junior middleweight – 6 rounds

Sunday, July 28 – Shiga Daihatsu Arena, Otsu, Japan

Ginjiro Shigeoka vs. Pedro Taduran – strawweight – 12 rounds

Matcha Nakagawa vs. Pete Apolinar – featherweight – 8 rounds

Wednesday, July 31 – ProBoxTV Events Center, Plant City, Fla.

Alberto Palmetta vs. Jesus Saracho – welterweight – 10 rounds

Emiliano Moreno vs. Rashield Williams – welterweight – 8 rounds

Jonathan Navarro vs. Clarence Booth – junior middleweight – 8 rounds

Terrence Williams vs. Roberto Kevin Escobar – welterweight – 6 rounds

Where to watch it: ProBox TV

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