Gabriel José Maestre Pérez vs. Taras Oleksandrovych Shelestyuk

Headlining a GYM Promotions card at Casino de Montréal on Friday, March 11th. Battle of "young unbeaten prospects".

Despite both coming in thin on professional experience - with just 23 bouts combined - they are hardly rookies nor spring chickens. Both the Venezuelan and the southpaw Ukrainian - aged 35 & 36 respectively - were longtime amateur standouts.

Maestre is coming off a controversial UD over Mykal Fox in August his first time campaigning abroad. Shelestyuk has only had one meaningful opponent in the pros so far, Aslanbek Kozaev way back in 2015.

I believe this will be the first high-profile Ukrainian boxer in action since the start of the present conflict? It kind of begs the question as to why he isn't following many of his boxing countrymen's example and reporting home for duty.