Headlining a card this coming Saturday, the seventeenth of June, at the Smoothie King Center in N'awlins. WBC super lightweight title at stake, 1st defense of Prograis. Zorrilla is ranked #20 by the WBC, meaning this most likely is considered a voluntary defense (though exact rules on this are opaque to John Q. Public, mandatories are generally supposed to be picked from among the 15 highest-ranked, and more often than not top 5). Each man has just one career defeat, and both forgivable ones - Rougarou (The Werewolf) via MD against then unbeaten Josh Taylor in a 140lb world championship unification bout in 2019, and Danielito via UD against still unbeaten Arnold Barboza, Jr. last July in a ten-rounder.
Uzbek amateur darling (and gold medalist at the Rio games in 2016) Shaxram Djamshedovich "Wonder Boy" Giyasov vs. east coast southpaw and fellow undefeated prospect "King" Harold Calderon in chief support.
Probably goes without saying this is the biggest "Zydeco (Cajun or Creole) vs. Puerto Rico" match-up since...uh, Clifford Etienne vs. Fres Oquendo in 2001? Yeah? That can't possibly be controversial... but now watch somebody pull up something more recent that was for a world title outta their ass.
