Julio Cesar Martinez will make his method again to the ring for the final ever Showtime boxing telecast.
The community confirmed the WBC flyweight titlist will command the co-feature of a December 16 Showtime Championship Boxing tripleheader from The Armory in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Martinez will face Venezuela’s Angelino Cordova in a scheduled twelve-round title struggle.
Martinez-Cordova is a part of a present that will even embrace the already reported Chris Colbert-Jose Valenzuela rematch, which is able to open the telecast. Additionally beforehand revealed was the David Morrell-Sena Agbeko WBA ‘Common’ tremendous middleweight title struggle within the night’s major occasion.
All three bouts had been confirmed through the David Benavidez-Demetrius Andrade Showtime PPV occasion Saturday night from Michelob ULTRA Enviornment in Las Vegas.
Mexico Metropolis’s Martinez (20-2, 15KOs; 2NC) will try his seventh title protection, which is able to come 4 years almost to the day of his December 2019 knockout win over Cristofer Rosales. He final turned away the problem of Panama’s Ronal Batista, whom he stopped within the eleventh-round of a Could 6 conflict on the undercard of his stablemate Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez’s homecoming in Zapopan, Mexico.
Martinez was beforehand hamstrung to a title consolidation rematch versus McWilliams Arroyo, till the Puerto Rican Olympian was relieved of his interim title for failure to honor the phrases of his entitled standing. The WBC granted Martinez to enter a voluntary protection, with one other more likely to observe within the first quarter of 2024 with a win on this bout.
Cordova (18-0-1, 12KOs) enters his first profession title struggle on the heels of the 2 greatest wins of his profession.
Each got here within the U.S. and in upset vogue, although in fights that might have simply gone the opposite method. He was a shock winner over former title challenger Axel Aragon Vega of their ten-round regional junior flyweight title struggle final June in Kissimmee, Florida. Cordova then moved again as much as flyweight, the place he scored a surprising ten spherical, unanimous choice over former WBO junior flyweight titlist Angel ‘Tito’ Acosta on April 6 in Indio, California.
Placement of Martinez-Cordova on this present places three of the 4 main titles at stake on this date unfold out over two reveals. The night time will even function the extremely anticipated Sunny Edwards-Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez IBF/WBO flyweight title unification bout atop a DAZN telecast from Desert Diamond Enviornment in Glendale, Arizona.
The one flyweight titlist not presently on the schedule for the rest of 2023 is WBA claimant Artem Dalakian (22-0, 15KOs). The 36-year-old was attributable to face necessary challenger Seigo Yuri Akui (18-2-1, 11KOs) on November 15. The present was postponed when WBA bantamweight titlist Takuma Inoue (18-1, 4KOs) suffered a rib damage and couldn’t proceed with the principle occasion versus former junior bantamweight beltholder Jerwin Ancajas (34-3-2, 23KOs).
Jake Donovan is a senior author for BoxingScene.com. X (previously Twitter): @JakeNDaBox
