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The rising iron-fisted star of the 154-pound division, Carlos “Caballo Bronco” Adames, will lock horns with Patrick Teixeira in a 12-round WBO junior middleweight title eliminator Saturday, Nov. 30 at The Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.

Adames-Teixeira will headline the undercard stream (ESPN+, 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m.) before the super featherweight doubleheader featuring former featherweight world Oscar Valdez’s division debut against Andres Gutierrez and Carl Frampton’s showdown against the unbeaten Tyler McCreary (ESPN+, 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT).

“A victory on November 30 will mean one of the last steps en route to fulfilling my dream of becoming world champion,” Adames said. “Without a doubt, this fight is the most important of my career. There is no room for mistakes. A victory guarantees me the opportunity to challenge for the world title. That’s why I worked hard and conscientiously with my trainer, Robert García. I assure you that the Dominican Republic will have a world champion very soon.”

“I’m very excited to fight Carlos Adames in Las Vegas in this elimination fight for the world title,” Teixiera said. “I’m very happy for this opportunity. It’s an important fight for me because I will be able to pursue my dream of becoming a world champion.”

Adames (18-0, 14 KOs), the WBO No. 1 contender, is 5-0 with three knockouts since making his Top Rank debut on the Vasiliy Lomachenko-Jorge Linares undercard in May 2018. A native of Elías Piña, Dominican Republic, he is 3-0 in 2019, including a fourth-round KO over Frank Galarza to win the NABO junior middleweight title. He defended that belt June 28 with a unanimous decision over the late Patrick Day.

Teixeira (30-1, 22 KOs), the WBO No. 2 contender, is seeking to become the next world champion from Brazil. He is 4-0 since suffering the lone defeat of his career, a second-round stoppage to Curtis Stevens at middleweight. A southpaw boxer-puncher, he last fought April 13 in Monterrey, Mexico, defending his WBO Latino junior middleweight belt with a majority decision over Mario Alberto Lozano.

In other undercard action:

In an all-SoCal battle, Glendale native Adam “Blunose” Lopez (13-1, 6 KOs) will make the first defense of his Junior NABF featherweight belt in a 10-rounder versus Moreno Valley’s Luis Coria (12-2, 7 KOs). Lopez is coming off a come-from-behind KO win May 25 against Puerto Rican prospect Jean Carlos Rivera.

Arnold Barboza Jr. (22-0, 9 KOs), the pride of South El Monte, Calif., will defend his Junior NABF super lightweight belt versus longtime contender William Silva (27-2, 15 KOs). Silva has two in a row since a July 2018 knockout loss to top lightweight contender Teofimo Lopez, while Barboza is looking to score his third knockout win of the year. Barboza stopped former world champion Mike Alvarado April 12 on the Vasiliy Lomachenko-Anthony Crolla undercard.

Japanese super lightweight contender Andy Hiraoka (14-0, 9 KOs), stablemate of pound-for-pound sensation Naoya Inoue, will make his American debut in an eight-rounder against Rogelio Casarez (13-8, 5 KOs).

Welterweight prospect Brian “La Bala” Mendoza (18-0, 13 KOs) hopes to extend his knockout streak to five against the hard-hitting Larry Gomez (9-1, 8 KOs) in an eight-rounder.

Italian heavyweight KO artist Guido “The Gladiator” Vianello (5-0, 5 KOs) will fight Colby Madison (8-1-2, 5 KOs) in a six-rounder.

Jared Anderson (1-0, 1 KO), fresh off a first-round knockout in his pro debut Oct. 26 in Reno, Nev., will return in short order in a four-rounder against Stephen Kirnon (2-2-1, 1 KO).

Anderson was Team USA’s top-ranked amateur when he signed with Top Rank in September.

Xander Zayas (1-0, 1 KO), the 17-year-old welterweight prodigy who scored a first-round KO in his pro debut Oct. 26, will face Virgel Windfield (2-2-1, 2 KOs) in a four-rounder.

Promoted by Top Rank, in association with Queensberry Promotions and MTK Global, tickets priced at $100, $85, $65, $45 and $20 (general admission) are available online at www.cosmopolitanlasvegas.com or through Ticketmaster at 800.745.3000.

Fight week..

Carlos Adames, Patrick Teixeira now fighting for WBO interim title

Junior middleweight contenders Carlos Adames and Patrick Teixeira had the stakes raised for their upcoming fight on Tuesday.

Adames and Teixeira are scheduled to fight on the Oscar Valdez-Andres Gutierrez undercard at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas on Saturday (ESPN+, 6:30 p.m. ET), but instead of the bout being a world title eliminator for the right to become the mandatory challenger for titlist Jaime Munguia, as originally planned, the bout was sanctioned Tuesday to be for the WBO interim title, with the winner likely to be elevated to the full titleholder at next week's WBO convention in Tokyo.

That is because Munguia announced last week that he is moving up to the middleweight division for his next fight, which will come against Gary "Spike" O'Sullivan on Jan. 11 at the Alamodome in San Antonio. Munguia has not officially vacated his 154-pound title, which is why Adames-Teixeira is for the interim belt, but Munguia probably will formally vacate during the convention, which runs from Monday through Thursday.

"It doesn't change what will happen in the ring on Saturday night, but obviously, given the stakes being raised, the winner of the fight is going to be in a great position and to eventually be recognized as a world champion and rightly so," Top Rank vice president Carl Moretti told ESPN.

The Robert Garcia-trained Adames (18-0, 14 KOs), 25, of the Dominic Republic, is 5-0 with three knockouts since he debuted for Top Rank in May 2018. He is the favorite.

Top Rank chairman Bob Arum, who said he expects the winner to be elevated to the full titleholder during next week's convention, told ESPN that if Adames wins he plans to bring him to Australia to make his first defense in the spring against Tim Tszyu (14-0, 10 KOs), 25, of Australia. Tszyu, who is slated to face countryman Jack Brubaker (16-2-2, 8 KOs), 28, on Dec. 6 in Sydney, is the son of Hall of Fame former undisputed junior welterweight world champion Kostya Tsyzu.

Teixeira (30-1, 22 KOs), 28, a southpaw from Brazil, has won four fights in a row since his only defeat, a second-round knockout to former world title challenger Curtis Stevens in May 2016. Now he is stepping up again against a formidable opponent.

The decision that the fight would be for the interim belt came on the same day that Munguia and O'Sullivan met face to face at a news conference to kick off the promotion for their 12-round fight, which will headline a Golden Boy card on DAZN.

"I'm excited to be moving up to 160 pounds, where they say that some of the most important fighters in boxing are," Munguia said at the news conference, referring to elite middleweights such as champion Canelo Alvarez and titleholder Gennadiy Golovkin. "I have a very tough fighter in front of me, Gary O'Sullivan, who's very tough. If I want those bigger fights, then I have to demonstrate that I'm worthy of that against this guy. So I have to do my best in order to rise up in the rankings. I look forward to delivering a great fight for Mexico."

Munguia (34-0, 27 KOs), 23, of Mexico, made five 154-pound title defenses, but struggles with weight led to the decision to move up to 160 pounds.

"He gives everything in the ring, and he concentrates 100 percent at what he does," said Erik Morales, the Hall of Famer who won titles in four divisions and now trains Munguia. "For me it's also a big challenge because he is a novice who has to work on a lot of things, and we have to prepare for a very tough opponent. We have to make a lot of fixes and changes. The goal is to one day fight big fights against big fighters, and we have a lot of things to work on before that."

O'Sullivan (30-3, 21 KOs), 35, of Ireland, will be a huge underdog because the three times he stepped up in opposition he lost badly, a near-shutout decision to two-division world titlist Billy Joe Saunders in 2013, a seventh-round knockout to top contender Chris Eubank Jr. in 2015 and by first-round destruction to former titlist David Lemieux on the Alvarez-Golovkin II undercard in September 2018. He has won two low-level fights since the blowout loss to Lemieux.

"I'm really excited about this, and I'm looking forward to it a lot," O'Sullivan said. "Jaime Munguia is a great fighter. I'm very motivated by this challenge. He's a young world champion, undefeated. For many, this is the stuff of dreams to come to his backyard and fight the undefeated champion of the world. I've never felt the more motivated in my career."

Munguia will obviously vacate, so winner of this will become full champion.

I like Adames, hope he will become champ.

Is this fight on the main card or the prelims? The main fights being advertised are the Valdez and Frampton fights, there's barely any mention of this.

jujigatame wrote: ↑28 Nov 2019, 12:22 Is this fight on the main card or the prelims? The main fights being advertised are the Valdez and Frampton fights, there's barely any mention of this.

If you read the OP...

Adames-Teixeira will headline the undercard stream (ESPN+, 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m.) before the super featherweight doubleheader featuring former featherweight world Oscar Valdez’s division debut against Andres Gutierrez and Carl Frampton’s showdown against the unbeaten Tyler McCreary (ESPN+, 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT).

You would know.......

Reading is for nerds!!

Lol I admit, I often DGAF about reading or searching stuff, because I can just ask and get someone to tell me or look it up for me

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑28 Nov 2019, 14:48 Lol I admit, I often DGAF about reading or searching stuff, because I can just ask and get someone to tell me or look it up for me

Right.. next time I won’t reply to you..

You can keep waiting...

What a phenomenal battle!! FOY candidate...classic see-saw war of attrition!!

Anyone see the Vianello fight?

Ya opponent laid down on a glancing straight right 30 seconds in

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑30 Nov 2019, 22:44 Ya opponent laid down on a glancing straight right 30 seconds in

This fight was tremendous. FOTY contender. Not gonna bother watching the rest of the card as it's just a pair of mismatches.

Tex looked like a padded record fraud when Stevens destroyed him, he has definitely redeemed himself

Good to see solid boxer from Brazil. Maybe he deserves title shot after this. Is Julian Williams still with no fight scheduled ?

Cent0089 wrote: ↑01 Dec 2019, 05:56 Good to see solid boxer from Brazil. Maybe he deserves title shot after this. Is Julian Williams still with no fight scheduled ?

He’s gna become an automatic WBO champion anyway. Golden Boy get to keep the belt after Munguia vacated it. He’ll just go on an defend it a few times.

Cent0089 wrote: ↑01 Dec 2019, 05:56 Good to see solid boxer from Brazil. Maybe he deserves title shot after this. Is Julian Williams still with no fight scheduled ?

J-Rock has his fight set. Jeison Rosario.

Purses

Carlos Adames $35k,
Patrick Teixeira $40k;

Arnold Barboza Jr. didn’t fight for a world title and he got $50k..

can we say fight of the year candidate??

Munguia has vacated.. Teixeira is now full champion.

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑02 Dec 2019, 05:00 can we say fight of the year candidate??

Thanks for this, good fight.