Jermell Charlo and Brian Castano will meet a second time for the undisputed 154-pound championship Saturday in Carson, California, on Showtime.
Jermell Charlo (34-1-1, 18 KOs) vs. Brian Castano (17-0-2, 12 KOs)
- Date: Saturday, Could 14
- Time: 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. PT (most important occasion later in present)
- The place: Dignity Well being Sports activities Park, Carson, California
- TV/Stream: Showtime
- Division: Junior middleweight (154 kilos)
- Rounds: 12
- At stake: Charlo’s IBF, WBA, WBC and Castano’s WBO titles
- Pound-for-pound rating: Charlo No. 10
- Odds: Charlo 1½-1 favourite (common of a number of shops)
- Additionally on the cardboard: Jaron Ennis vs. Custio Clayton, welterweights; Kevin Gonzalez vs. Emanuel Rivera, junior featherweights
- Prediction: Charlo UD
- Background: Jermell Charlo and Brian Castano will strive once more to crown an undisputed 154-pound champion. They did battle with all 4 belts on the road final July however the struggle ended in a draw, which settled nothing. Charlo, a formidable boxer-puncher from Houston, had been one of many hotter fighters within the enterprise going into that struggle. He misplaced a shocking determination and the WBC title to slick Tony Harrison in December 2018 however (following a profitable protection in opposition to Jorge Cota) stopped Harrison in 11 rounds within the rematch after which knocked out Jeison Rosario in eight rounds so as to add the IBF and WBA belts in September 2020. Charlo additionally has victories Gabriel Rosado, Vanes Martirosyan, Erickson Lubin and Austin Trout. Castano, a relentless quantity puncher from Argentina, adopted a sequence of spectacular performances – together with a victory over Michel Soro (SD) and a draw with Erislandy Lara – by simply outpointing Patrick Teixeira to win the WBO title in February of final 12 months. That led to the primary title-unification bout in opposition to Charlo, through which Castano made it clear that he’s the most effective within the enterprise.
