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Salvador Rodríguez, ESPN Digital Writer June 10, 2020, 5:43 p.m. ET
Close• Boxing reporter for ESPN TV and ESPN KnockOut.
Former world champion Jessie Magdaleno had to make an extra effort to be able to mark the agreed weight for his fight this Thursday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, against the dangerous Yenifel Vicente, in the main event of the Top Rank evening. that ESPN It will broadcast both in the United States and in Latin America.
Magdaleno (27-1, 18 KO’s) stopped the scale at 128.3 pounds on a first attempt, then weighed himself again and registered 128.1, which is why he had to go to work and return minutes later to finally weigh 127.9 pounds, just shy of below the 128 agreed for the battle. ‘Rayito’ Vicente (36-4-2, 28 Ko’s) had no problem, since he scored 126.5 pounds at the first attempt.
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This will be Magdaleno’s first fight in almost 300 days, as he has not been in the ring since beating Rafael Rivera in August of last year. A win will bring him remarkably close to a featherweight world championship battle. For Yenifel, it will be the eighth fight on US soil, where he has a balance of three wins and four losses.
The billboard will be broadcast in English through ESPN and in Spanish for ESPN KnockOut for Latin America and also for US soil through the signal of ESPN Sports.
In the co-main event, an interesting duel will take place between two young men, Adam López and Luis ‘Louie’ Coria, who were going to fight last November, but as the rival of former champion Óscar Valdez fell, Adam stepped out and almost gave up. bell. The fight goes to 10 rounds for the vacant NABF Featherweight Championship. Lopez (13-2, 6 KO’s) stopped the scale at 125.8 pounds, while Coria (12-2, 7 KO’s) registered 124.7 pounds.
For the start of the card, Gabriel Muratalla (2-0, 2 KO’s) will fight Fernando Robles (2-2) in a bantamweight duel, while Eric Mondragón (3-0, 2 KO’s) will face Mike Sanchez (6-0, 2 KO’s) in a reserved forecast matchup between the undefeated in the Lightweight category. Prospect Bryan Lua (5-0, 2 KO’s) was scheduled to fight Dan Murray (5-3) in the lightweight division, but Murray missed the division by too many pounds and the fight was called off.
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