The PPV card or the earlier Top Rank Live Stream card? On the PPV: Seanie Monaghan vs. Anthony Caputo Smith, 10 rounds @ light heavyweight Monaghan is a popular, all-action local attraction in New York with a decent following and finally making his nationally televised debut (although he fought many times on a regional network). The unbeaten prospect is a solid-in-every-category, but nothing spectacular in any one type. Good power, chin, motor, stamina, combinations, roughly average speed and reflexes...the biggest glaring flaws being he cruises in one gear a lot, and isn't the most creative. This is a showcase for him, Anthony "The Bull" is a come-forward brawling club fighter a level or two below and tailor-made for Monaghan to shine on his first PPV. Vasyl Lomachenko vs. Jose Ramirez, 10 rounds @ featherweight Lomachenko is being called by some the pound for pound amateur boxing GOAT. That is a bit much, but he is definitely tops for his generation and this is easily the most globally anticipated pro debut of all the gold medalists from last year's Olympics. Ramirez is actually pretty freaking tough for a debut opponent, coming off a road upset of Filipino puncher and onetime prospect Rey "Boom Boom" Bautista. For a normal debutant, he would seem like biting off too much too soon. Lomachenko is a freakish athlete in his prime with incredibly well-schooled and refined abilities, however, and people have been calling his style "pro ready" for years now. Orlando Salido vs. Orlando Cruz, 12 rounds @ featherweight This is for the belt that Mikey Garcia vacated to move up to 130lbs and challenge Rocky Martinez. Salido was his penultimate defense, getting creamed by the phenom and forced into a ten-month layoff to recover. Now he wants to resume the momentum he built up by twice stopping JuanMa Lopez by defeating another Puerto Rican before time runs out for the ragged, hard-battling Mexican vet. This one is a former amateur standout, an Olympic teammate of Miguel Cotto and Ivan Calderon who is very talented in the ring but has been making extracurricular headlines due to his recent 'coming out'. In fact, that is all his name is known for among most American fans who don't regularly follow the late-night boxing on Spanish language TV channels. He does actually deserve the opportunity and despite having a questionable chin heading in with a puncher in Salido, he does have a lot of boxing talent.
On the live streamed undercard: Trevor McCumby vs. Eric Watkins II, 6 rounds @ light heavyweight McCumby is a powerful kid, and has impressed on past appearances on Top Rank undercards. Watkins is the first person to ever take him the distance, something only a single other foe has done. Jun Doliguez vs. Giovanni Caro, 8 rounds @ featherweight Doliguez is an up and comer Pinoy KO artist, stablemates with Al Sabaupan and Drian Francisco. Caro is tough and has seen action with lots of big names (always on the losing end) but isn't much of a step up. Mikael Zewski vs. Alberto Herrera, 8 rounds @ welterweight Zewski is a blue-chipper whom many have been watching in the hopes that he will make a big move. This isn't it, although Herrera did just narrowly upset a 10-0 Georgian import... Brad Solomon vs. Kenny Abril, 8 rounds @ welterweight Abril is better than his record suggests but Solomon is the real deal. He possesses speed, ring intelligence, basically everything but huge 1-punch torque.
Wgat time does the PPV card start? I want to catch Lomas debut so will that be on in about... 3.5 hrs?
