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Prograis will face former unified world champion Indongo for the vacant Interim WBC Super Lightweight World Championship from Deadwood Mountain Grand, in Deadwood, South Dakota.

Prograis is also determined to make history, as the last boxing champion to come from New Orleans was Willie Pastrano, who held the light heavyweight title from 1963 until 1965.

Petr Petrov features in the chief support bout, taking on Ivan Baranchyk in an eliminator for the IBF belt, which is contested by Mikey Garcia and Sergey Lipinets the following day on March 10th.

Running Order

*Please note, all fights subject to change without notice.

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Junior FA vs. Craig LEWIS

8 x 3 Minute Rounds: Heavyweight contest

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Follows

Ivan BARANCHYK vs. Petr PETROV

12 x 3 Minute Rounds: Super-Lightweight contest

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Follows

Regis PROGRAIS vs. Julius INDONGO

12 x 3 Minute Rounds: The Interim WBC World Super-Lightweight Title

Looking forward to Prograis. I don't expect him to have any problems. He does ship right hands but seems to have a granite chin.

not a bad set of fghts there

3am is too late for me and thats just the first fight.. 8 rounder.. i assume Prograis-Indongo will be around half 4.. i have work at 9am.. gotta be up for 7.. is it that big a match up for me to stay awake?

I like indongo. Limited but little African fella upsets the world and wins 2 belts away from home. Hope Crawford didn't ruin him

I couldn't get any of my usual streams to work so not watching

reeg destroys indongo wth 4 knockdowns in 2 rounds. was powerful calm and cool

indongo though was super wild and jittery and off balance from the start. he looked bad before reeg even did anythng. maybe one of the sloppiest unified champs ive seen.

Prograis is damn impressive! He looks better every time you see him

My Man

Lets not get carried away - Indongo was very very poor indeed.

Reggie Prograis did what he had to do and he's knocking on the doors of Mikey Garcia, Flanagan, Barthelemy/Relikh winner,

The 25-year-old Baranchyk knocked down Petr Petrov three times and stopped him in the eighth round of their IBF junior welterweight elimination match in Deadwood, South Dakota. The bigger, stronger Baranchyk dropped Petrov once apiece in the first, second and sixth rounds.

Referee Mark Nelson decided he had seen enough as Baranchyk battered Petrov against the ropes early in the eighth round. He called an end to the scheduled 12-round fight at 1:12 of the eighth.

Impressively heavy hands has Prog, showed a good chin as well, because Indongo asked the questions early before getting blasted out. I’m not sure anyone other than a very heavy-handed puncher or an excellent fighter could’ve done that to the African.

Surprised too see Ian John Lewis turn up. He bollocksed it up at the end though, luckily the completely gone Jules didn’t get too hurt by the free shot at the end.

Very impressive win for Prograis, his power was the difference, he just blew away Indongo with they left hands over the top, Indongo down 4 times, still not quite sure what shot put Indongo down in the 1st, might have been a body shot it was hard to tell but he looked in trouble when he got up but luckily it was the end of the round, no such luck in the 2nd though, Prograis bowling him over with big overhand lefts, the first KD done the damage, Indongo got up, Prograis put him down straight away with the same shot, again Indongo got up and again Prograis put him down straight away with a big left

I actually thought Indongo was outlanding Prograis in the opener and the 2nd up until the knockdowns but his legs looked shaky from the off, everyshot Prograis landed seem to make Indongo jerk

MightyWarrior wrote: ↑10 Mar 2018, 06:28 Impressively heavy hands has Prog, showed a good chin as well, because Indongo asked the questions early before getting blasted out. I’m not sure anyone other than a very heavy-handed puncher or an excellent fighter could’ve done that to the African.

Surprised too see Ian John Lewis turn up. He bollocksed it up at the end though, luckily the completely gone Jules didn’t get too hurt by the free shot at the end.

i think a number of fighters could blast indongo out

lets also remember that while crawford is excellent indongos the only guy hes blown out early in years and years

i think several guys would stop indongo, thought he was pretty damn poor his last 2 imo, and even before anything really hapoened he was amateurishly wild, tense, and totally off balnce. then he crumpled immediately like he had no resistence.

prograis, garcia, ramirez, taylor, postol, imam, lipinets, barthelemy, etc.....wouldnt surprise me if indongo lost all of them. wouldnt surprise me if troyanovski ko'd him in a rematch or if some like catteral beat him.

handsofstone wrote: ↑10 Mar 2018, 06:44 I actually thought Indongo was outlanding Prograis in the opener and the 2nd up until the knockdowns but his legs looked shaky from the off, everyshot Prograis landed seem to make Indongo jerk

he did start the fight well, until the power jab got him.

did anyone see him fighting like an unsteady wild nervous novice and not think it would fall apart quickly?

him 'starting well' was simply prograis doing nothing for the first 2 minutes. as soon as prograis started punching it was pretty much done

jamamb wrote: ↑10 Mar 2018, 08:13 did anyone see him fighting like an unsteady wild nervous novice and not think it would fall apart quickly?

him 'starting well' was simply prograis doing nothing for the first 2 minutes. as soon as prograis started punching it was pretty much done

Makes Crawford win look a bit shît now. As that was for the Undisputed championship

i just think julius has looked like poo his last two fights, even assumimg both were vs excellent opponents. and as good as crawford is he very rarely takes guys out that quickly

i think indongo will get beat a lot more if he keeps fighting top 10 opponents

jamamb wrote: ↑10 Mar 2018, 08:17 i just think julius has looked like poo his last two fights, even assumimg both were vs excellent opponents. and as good as crawford is he very rarely takes guys out that quickly

i think indongo will get beat a lot more if he keeps fighting top 10 opponents

It's truth. The win vs. Troy was a one-punch KO.. Vs. Burns was just a one-sided win as Indongo was just too awkward.

jamamb wrote: ↑10 Mar 2018, 08:17 i just think julius has looked like poo his last two fights, even assumimg both were vs excellent opponents. and as good as crawford is he very rarely takes guys out that quickly

i think indongo will get beat a lot more if he keeps fighting top 10 opponents

Because Tel is just getting better & better.
And yes, Jules could well be finished now, after that latest conclusive beat down.

Plus going by memory I thought he landed some good shots on Prog, tested that chin

Quick highlights for anyone who wants to see..

The final left hook was brutal!

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑10 Mar 2018, 09:17 The final left hook was brutal!

Ian John Lewis insisting on a coup de grace.

He's great to watch. Slick moves to get inside, easily gets under Indongos shots and throws nice counters, excellent defensive work to block and ride shots. He will need a good chin though because you will get hit with that style. He carries power himself. Coming forward like that hes essentially daring opponents to throw punches at him.

TheLeprechaun wrote: ↑10 Mar 2018, 09:25 He will need a good chin though because you will get hit with that style. He carries power himself. Coming forward like that hes essentially daring opponents to throw punches at him.

He started coming forward more when he felt Indongo's punches and probably thought he couldn't hurt him. He said in the interview that he could take Indongo's power.