Austin Trout fights on Feb.17 on Ortiz-Alexander card
Posted: 31 Jan 2018, 08:28
Former WBA junior middleweight champion Austin ‘No Doubt’ Trout (30-4, 17 KOs) will be fighting next month against an opponent still to be determined on the undercard of the “Vicious” Victor Ortiz vs. Devon Alexander welterweight clash at the Don Haskins Center on the UTEP campus in El Paso.
Trout’s fight is expected to be a tune-up level match to get him back to his winning ways. Trout, 32, has lost 2 in a row to IBF World 154lb champion Jarrett Hurd and Jermall Charlo. Trout was stopped in 10 rounds by Hurd in his last match on October 14 on Showtime Boxing at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Trout gave a valiant effort against the bigger, stronger and younger 27-year-old Hurd, but ultimately he didn’t have the physical tools to win this one.
“I’m looking forward to fighting close to home,” said Trout. Many of you know I was born here in El Paso and grew up right across the road in Las Cruces, New Mexico. To be here again is surreal and it’s even more special being on a great card like this,” said Trout.
Trout’s fight is expected to be a tune-up level match to get him back to his winning ways. Trout, 32, has lost 2 in a row to IBF World 154lb champion Jarrett Hurd and Jermall Charlo. Trout was stopped in 10 rounds by Hurd in his last match on October 14 on Showtime Boxing at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Trout gave a valiant effort against the bigger, stronger and younger 27-year-old Hurd, but ultimately he didn’t have the physical tools to win this one.
“I’m looking forward to fighting close to home,” said Trout. Many of you know I was born here in El Paso and grew up right across the road in Las Cruces, New Mexico. To be here again is surreal and it’s even more special being on a great card like this,” said Trout.
