Bernard Hopkins, the IBF light heavyweight titleholder, put on his promoter’s hat for a noon-time press conference at Planet Hollywood at Times Square in Manhattan on Tuesday to announce the deal for 24 fights that will be broadcast on Mondays with an inaugural show featuring a 10-round middleweight match between Danny Jacobs and Giovanni Lorenzo at the Best Buy Theater in midtown Manhattan on Aug. 19. The show, which will be called Golden Boy on Fox will air twice a month for the first year. (Source: FOX Sports)
Episode Info
HBO Boxing presents a Light Heavyweight main event card between Sullivan Barrera (17-0-0, 12 KO's) from Miami, Florida and Andre "S.O.G." Ward (28-0-0, 15 KO's) from Oakland, California. This card is being broadcast live from the Oracle Arena in Oakland, California. Also on this card is a NABF featherweight title bout between the current champion Joseph Diaz and his challenger Jayson Velez.
The scheduled undercard bouts are as follows:
Featherweight: Daniel Franco vs. German Meraz
Heavyweight: Zhilei Zhang vs. Tyree Ortiz
Middleweight: Rudy Puga vs. Carlos Lozano
Super Lightweight: Maurice Hooker vs. Wilfrido Buelvas
Super Middleweight: Junior Younan vs. Cristian Solórzano
Super Welterweight: Aaron Coley vs. Urmat Ryskeldiev