January fifteenth at Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, NY. 10 rounds @ featherweight. Co-main event of the Joe Smith Jr. vs. Steven Geffrard card on ESPN. Unlike the main event, this actually isn't a ridiculous mismatch. Nova - who is from P.R. and now resides in N.Y., but upstate in the Dirty Albs (therefore afaik ineligible to be claimed as part of the "Nuyorican" boxing tradition) is ranked IBF #11 and WBO #3 and formerly held the NABA strap up at 130lbs...yet to ever suffer a blemish in his twenty professional bouts and with 14 of them coming by way of stoppage. Encarnación, a 2012 Olympian for the Dominican Republic, was formerly in the WBA pipeline (kayoed in his lone defeat by then-unbeaten Nicaraguan glass cannon Giovanni José "Babyface" Gutiérrez Rivera in summer of 2019 in a bid for their Fedecaribe super bantamweight title) and looking to smash his way back into any org's top 15 rankings.
Nova vs. Richard Mark Taruc "The Beast" Pumicpic: This content is protected Encarnación vs. Donny Agustín "El Campeóncito" García Canario: This content is protected
