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Tonight at 10 pm ET live on Showtime, Luis Nery and Brandon Figueroa headline a three-fight card, with the WBC and WBA “regular” junior featherweight titles on the line.
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Nery made a somewhat uninspiring debut at 122 lbs last September, not exactly shining but winning the then-vacant WBC belt. Figueroa last fought on the same card, stopping Damien Vazquez in 10.
The Nery-Figueroa winner is already set for a unification date with WBO titlist Stephen Fulton Jr in September, which will also air on Showtime.
May 13th, 2021 Bad Brad
Undefeated super bantamweight champions Luis “Pantera” Nery and Brandon “Heartbreaker” Figueroa faced off Thursday at the final press conference before their world title clash live on SHOWTIME this Saturday, May 15 in a Premier Boxing Champions event from Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California.
The press conference also featured former unified super bantamweight champion Danny Roman and hard-hitting Ricardo Espinoza, who meet in the 10-round co-main event, plus undefeated super featherweight contender Xavier Martinez and former world title challenger Juan Carlos Burgos, who duel in a 10-round showdown that kicks off the telecast at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT.
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Dignity Health Sports Park will host three of this weekend’s Boxing Champions Premiere in Carson, California (
Show time, 9 p.m. ET). Showtime has also increased its bet on Nery-Figueroa as the winner announced that the winner will go straight to the second union Stephen Fulton Jr. against the champion (19-0, 8 KOs) on September 11th.
“It’s going to be a full-blown war from the first war,” Nery said at a recent press conference on Thursday. “People will be talking about it for a long time.”
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With Luis Nery set to square off against Brandon Figueroa this weekend in a Showtime main event, defending his WBC world title, Nery shares some of his final thoughts on his expectations for the bout and explains what he’s out to prove in this outing. Check out some press quotes of what Nery had to say during today’s final press conference.
“In the ring, I’m going for the finish,” Nery said. “Everything is on the line. I just have to prove what I’m capable of inside the ring. I don’t care about anything else but that.
“To me, bottom line, Brandon Figueroa is a threat. He is a threat to my career. He is a threat to my future plans. I need to eliminate that threat,” – Nery WBC Super Bantamweight World Champion Luis Nery Faces Undefeated Brandon Figueroa Saturday, May 15 Live On SHOWTIME® in a Premier Boxing Champio