Jose Valenzuela vs. Diego Torres | Paramount+ - February 1, 2026

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JOSE VALENZUELA VS. DIEGO TORRES HEADLINES ZUFFA BOXING 2 ON FEB. 1

Zuffa Boxing’s second installment is beginning to take shape.

Former 140-pound WBA titleholder Jose Valenzuela will take on Diego Torres in a 10-round lightweight bout on February 1 at Meta Apex in Las Vegas on Paramount+, Zuffa Boxing announced on Wednesday.

Valenzuela (14-3, 9 KOs) is looking to get his career back on track after dropping his title during a one-sided unanimous decision defeat against Gary Antuanne Russell in March. “Rayo” Valenzuela, a 26-year-old southpaw from Mexico, has had an uneven ride in recent years, going 2-3 over his last five fights dating back to 2022.

Valenzuela suffered the first loss of his pro career by a third-round knockout against Edwin De Los Santos in September 2022. In the following fight in December 2022, Valenzuela dropped a controversial unanimous decision against Chris Colbert. But he avenged the loss in December 2023 by knocking out Colbert inside six one-sided rounds.

Valenzuela leveraged the win toward a title shot against Isaac Cruz in August 2024 and seized the opportunity by outboxing Pitbull to a split decision win to become a beltholder. However, Valenzuela failed to defend the title against Russell.

Torres (22-1, 19 KOs) is a 28-year-old from Mexico who's built his record on home soil. Torres has fought only once outside of Mexico, and it resulted in the lone loss of his career against Raymond Muratalla in November 2023. Torres has bounced back from the Muratalla defeat by securing four straight wins.

Zuffa Boxing’s inaugural show is set for Friday and is headlined by a 10-round middleweight matchup between Callum Walsh (15-0, 11 KOs) and Carlos Ocampo (38-3, 26 KOs) as part of a three-fight card streaming on Paramount+ beginning at 9 p.m. EST.

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As a big Jose Valenzuela fan, I believe he takes this one, but I don’t see it ending in a knockout. Diego Torres is tough, dangerous, and definitely not an easy opponent, so it’ll be a hard-fought Cool Games, tactical fight.

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I also read on several different sites that Bohachuk vs. Butaev at MW is scheduled for this card.

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JOSE VALENZUELA-DIEGO TORRES CONFIRMED AS ZUFFA BOXING MAIN EVENT FEB. 1

Zuffa Boxing confirmed the main card for its second show on Monday.

Former WBA 140-pound champ Jose Valenzuela will square off against Diego Torres in its 10-round main event Sunday night at Meta Apex, UFC’s multipurpose facility in Las Vegas. Valenzuela (14-3, 9 KOs), of Renton, Washington, dropped back down to the lightweight limit of 135 pounds for an intriguing fight with Mexico’s Torres (22-1, 18 KOs).

Ukraine’s Serhii Bohachuk is set to face Russia’s Radzhab Butaev in the co-feature on Paramount+, a 10-round middleweight match. The 10-round opener of the main card at 9 p.m. ET will feature former WBC light heavyweight champ Oleksandr Gvozdyk versus Radivoje Kalajdzic.

Valenzuela will end an 11-month layoff against Torres. The 25-year-old southpaw hasn’t fought since Gary Antuanne Russell soundly defeated him on points in their 12-round fight for Valenzuela’s WBA belt March 1 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

Torres, 28, has won four straight fights since unbeaten IBF lightweight champ Raymond Muratalla beat him by eighth-round technical knockout in November 2023.

Bohachuk (26-3, 24 KOs) will attempt to bounce back from a decisive defeat to Brandon Adams in their 10-round rematch on the Canelo Alvarez-Terence Crawford undercard September 13 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. Butaev (16-1, 12 KOs, 1 NC) will compete for just the third time since Lithuania’s Eimantas Stanionis beat him by split decision in their WBA welterweight title fight in April 2022.

Ukraine’s Gvozdyk (21-2, 17 KOs) will end a nine-month layoff when he battles Serbia’s Kalajdzic (29-3, 21 KOs), who last fought in August 2024. Kalajdzic dropped a unanimous decision to former WBA secondary champ David Morrell in his most recent appearance.

Zuffa Boxing, which has added numerous boxers to its growing roster since last year, was formed by TKO and Sela, a leading entertainment company.

UFC president and CEO Dana White is the front man for Zuffa Boxing. Its leadership group also includes Turki Alalshikh, chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority and owner of The Ring, Sela managing director and CEO Dr. Rakan AlHarthy and WWE president Nick Khan, who is also a TKO board member.

Zuffa Boxing made its debut on Paramount+ on Friday night.

Irish middleweight Callum Walsh (16-0, 11 KOs) defeated Mexican veteran Carlos Ocampo (38-4, 26 KOs) by unanimous decision in the 10-round main event. Walsh suffered a knockdown when his glove touched the canvas in the sixth round, but he won comfortably on all three scorecards (98-90, 98-90, 97-91).

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Jalil Hackett-Roberto Cruz tops Zuffa Boxing’s prelims on February 1

Five fights have been announced for the preliminary undercard of Zuffa Boxing’s second show on Paramount+, which will take place on Sunday, February 1.

The broadcast will kick off at 6 p.m. Eastern Time (11 p.m. GMT) from the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Topping the prelims is a bout between two fighters with nearly identical records: Jalil Hackett and Roberto Cruz.

Hackett, 11-1 (9 KOs), is a 22-year-old from Washington, D.C. He lost a split decision to Jose Roman Vazquez in December 2024 down at welterweight. Hackett moved up in weight last year, coming in a few pounds above the junior middleweight limit for knockout victories over the 8-0 Elijah Vines and the 17-12 Jose Angulo.

Cruz, 11-1 (7 KOs), is a 28-year-old Puerto Rican fighter living in Texas. He is coming off a seventh-round TKO loss to junior middleweight prospect Andreas Katzourakis this past May.

Hackett vs. Cruz is being advertised as a middleweight bout; Zuffa Boxing is not utilizing all of men’s boxing’s 17 (or 18) weight classes.

Also scheduled for the prelims:

Oscar Perez, 14-0-2 (7 KOs), against Justin Viloria, 11-0 (8 KOs), in an eight-round lightweight bout

Damoni Cato-Cain, 8-1-2 (7 KOs), against Christian Perez, 7-0 (7 KOs), in an eight-rounder with a catchweight of 150lbs

Julian Gomez, 7-3 (2 KOs), against Damazion Vanhouter, 10-0 (7 KOs), in a six-round heavyweight bout

Jamar Talley, 5-0 (4 KOs), against Devonte Williams, 13-3 (6 KOs), in a six-round cruiserweight bout

The three-fight main broadcast will start at 9 p.m. ET (2 a.m. GMT). In the main event, Jose Valenzuela will face Diego Torres in a bout scheduled for 10 rounds.

Valenzuela, 14-3 (9 KOs), is a former junior welterweight titleholder who upset Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz for the WBA belt in August 2024 but lost it in his first defense, a wide defeat to Gary Antuanne Russell last March. This is the first fight back for Valenzuela, a 26-year-old from Mexico living in Washington state, and he’s returning to lightweight for this bout. He is ranked eighth at 135lbs by the WBA.

Torres, 22-1 (19 KOs), is a 28-year-old from Mexico. He was stopped in the eighth round by Raymond Muratalla in late 2023; Muratalla has since become a lightweight titleholder. Torres, meanwhile, has notched four consecutive victories, most recently taking out the 12-3-2 Ridwan Oyekola in the fifth round in August. Torres is ranked 13th at lightweight by the IBF.

In a 10-round middleweight bout, junior middleweight contender Serhii Bohachuk, 26-3 (24 KOs), is back for the first time since his disappointing rematch loss to Brandon Adams in September. Bohachuk will face Radzhab Butaev, 16-1 (12 KOs), a former welterweight contender who’s only fought twice since losing a split decision to Eimantas Stanionis in April 2022.

Also on this show is a 10-round light heavyweight bout between former lineal champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk, 21-2 (17 KOs), and Radivoje Kalajdzic, 29-3 (21 KOs). Coincidentally, Gvozdyk was David Benavidez’s first fight at light heavyweight while Kalajdzic was the same for David Morrell before the two Davids faced off. Kalajdzic hasn’t fought since that decision loss in August 2024; Gvozdyk won a third-round knockout last April against a 9-7-3 opponent.

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This is better than Zuffa boxing 1. Not big fights, but i like this card. Some of fights are evenly matched. Not typical prospect vs journeyman fights we see all year. Wondering if Dana White plan to add Fight of the night and performance of the night bonuses

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I think Gvozdyk should go for rematch here.