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Moreu Jr. gets spot on Tapia card
Jackson-Wink's Brown scheduled to fight on Saturday
Up-and-coming sa国际传媒官网网页入口 super bantamweight Yoruba Moreu Jr. has been added to Tapia Promotions鈥 scheduled Jan. 9 pro boxing card at El Nuevo Cananas Night Club, 12935 Central Avenue.
According to boxrec.com, Moreu (2-0, two KOs) is matched against Mexican trial horse Alejandro Moreno (24-52-4, 11 KOs) in a scheduled four-round bout.
鈥淛acob (Maes, Moreu鈥檚 manager) messaged us and asked us if we wanted to get (on the card),鈥 Yoruba Moreu Sr., his son鈥檚 trainer, said on Tuesday in a phone interview. 鈥淲e had a couple of fights fall through, so we might as well jump on it. It鈥檚 been too long since we鈥檝e been in the ring.鈥
Moreu Jr. last fought on Aug. 30, when he defeated Bernardo Solis by third-round knockout in Rosarito, Mexico.
Moreu Sr. said he鈥檇 prefer six rounds to four, though there鈥檚 no guarantee that Moreno would provide the rounds the younger Moreu is looking for; he鈥檚 lost by third-round TKO in his two most recent bouts.
Moreno would offer comparisons between Moreu and two other sa国际传媒官网网页入口 boxers of note. He lost by third-round TKO to Matt Griego-Ortega in November 2017 and lost by six-round unanimous decision (60-54 on all three scorecards) to Abraham Perez in June 2022.
TORRES, TOO (PROBABLY): sa国际传媒官网网页入口 welterweight Josh Torres (28-7, 15 KOs) is a likely participant on the Jan. 9 card, having emerged unscathed from his victory by six-round unanimous decision over Christian Aguirre on Friday on a Legacy Promotions card at the Kiva Auditorium.
罢辞谤谤别蝉鈥 listing has him matched on the Tapia card against Texan Marquis Hawthorne (8-25, two KOs), who has lost his most recent 14 fights 鈥 10 by knockout.
But, Torres told the Journal via text on Tuesday, 鈥淎s of right now, they are looking for an opponent.鈥
Also listed on the Tapia card: Los Lunas heavyweight Cody East (6-1, four KOs) and promoter Teresa Tapia鈥檚 sons with the late Johnny Tapia, a five-time world champion: Johnny Tapia Jr. and Nicco Tapia. Nicco and Johnny Jr. would be making their pro boxing debuts.
MMA: As first reported by KRQE-TV, sa国际传媒官网网页入口鈥檚 Chris Brown (12-5) is scheduled to face Guram Gochasvili (4-0) of Tbilisi, Georgia, on Saturday on a Cage Fury FC card at the Hard Rock Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
The CFFC middleweight title will be at stake.
Brown, who trains at Jackson-Wink, won the CFFC interim middleweight title with a victory by unanimous decision over Buddy Wallace in June. Brown has won four of his last five fights.
Saturday鈥檚 card is scheduled to be streamed on UFC Fight Pass.