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Fire Fist Boxing Promotions’ William “Baby Face” Silva will challenge undefeated Olympian Teofimo Lopez in a ten round lightweight contest Saturday, July 14 at the Lakefront Arena at the University of New Orleans.

Silva-Lopez opens a Top Rank promoted ESPN telecast headlined by New Orleans’ own Regis Prograis, 21-0 (18 KO’s), against Argentina’s Juan Jose Velasco, 20-0 (12 KO’s), for the WBC interim junior welterweight championship.

Hailing from Sao Paulo, Brazil and fighting out of Plant City, FL, Silva has an outstanding professional ledger of 25-1 with 14 knockouts.

In his most recent bout, Silva shutout Rogelio Casarez to capture the IBO Continental andNBA World lightweight championships.

The 31-year-old Silva trains under Jose Rodriguez at the Plant City Boxing Gym and made significant strides since his lone setback against Felix Verdejo in 2016.

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Silva is the IBO "Continental North America" champ, not the "Continental" (Europe) champ. I made a thread telling Boxrec to fix that on their Query section!

And anybody know what the deal with this new NBA is?

DA1 wrote: ↑17 May 2018, 03:18 Silva is the IBO "Continental North America" champ, not the "Continental" (Europe) champ. I made a thread telling Boxrec to fix that on their Query section!

And anybody know what the deal with this new NBA is?

Apologies, It's from the article linked. It's kinda pooly worded. I didn't know Prograis was full time Top Rank

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑17 May 2018, 03:22

DA1 wrote: ↑17 May 2018, 03:18 Silva is the IBO "Continental North America" champ, not the "Continental" (Europe) champ. I made a thread telling Boxrec to fix that on their Query section!

And anybody know what the deal with this new NBA is?

Apologies, It's from the article linked. It's kinda pooly worded. I didn't know Prograis was full time Top Rank

Nothing to apologize. I'm a little perplexed why none of my questions or suggestions in the Records Query/Update are receiving a response. Kind of why I signed up here, but they're all being ignored.

Prograis is a beast..I haven't seen Velasco, but he better eat his Wheaties that morning.

Did Top Rank drop Silva after he lost to Verdejo? I don't know anything about Velasco or Lopez.

Disappointed they are matching Prograis so soft. He has a great future and deserves MUCH better. Velasco is one of a long line of Argentine bottom-feeders with undefeated records who feast on fellow countrymen so they can preserve their "O" and get a world title shot.

The most recent poster boy for Argentine bottom-feeders was Cesar Cuenca, who feasted on scrubs in his homeland until he was about 45-0, won a world title on a Bob Arum card in Macao, then lost it in his very first defense.