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Jean Pascal-Badou Jack Rematch, Jarrett Hurd-Luis Arias On Mayweather-Paul Undercard

A light heavyweight championship rematch and the return of a former junior middleweight champion will be part of the Floyd Mayweather-Logan Paul undercard June 6.

Boxing Scene has confirmed that a second bout between Jean Pascal and Badou Jack and another fight that’ll pit Jarrett Hurd against Luis Arias will be among the three fights Showtime Pay-Per-View will televise before Mayweather and Paul meet in an exhibition. Sports Illustrated’s Chris Mannix first reported the Pascal-Jack and Hurd-Arias fights Tuesday night on Twitter.

Mayweather and Paul officially announced on Instagram on Tuesday night that their exhibition is set for June 6 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida.

Hurd (24-1, 16 KOs) will fight for the first time since he defeated Francisco Santana (25-9-1, 12 KOs) by unanimous decision in their 10-round junior middleweight match 15 months ago at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The 30-year-old Hurd (24-1, 16 KOs), of Accokeek, Maryland, lost the IBF, IBO and WBA 154-pound titles to Philadelphia’s Julian Williams (27-2-1, 16 KOs, 1 NC) in his previous fight, which took place in May 2019 at EagleBank Arena in Fairfax, Virginia.

The 30-year-old Arias (18-2-1, 9 KOs), of Boca Raton, Florida, hasn’t fought since he lost a 10-round decision to Ireland’s Luke Keeler (17-3-1, 5 KOs) in August 2019 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Keeler knocked Arias to the canvas twice in that fight, once apiece in the first and ninth rounds.

Finally hes back in ring. Is Hurd moving to 160 ?

Cent0089 wrote: ↑03 May 2021, 08:39 Finally hes back in ring. Is Hurd moving to 160 ?

Probably.. but he has been out a while. We’ll have to see.. still wanted to see him vs. Jermell. But gotta be on his A game.

Press Release

All-time boxing great and 2020 International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee Floyd “Money” Mayweather will make his return to the ring as the undefeated, 12-time, five-division world champion squares off in an exhibition bout against social media sensation and pro boxer Logan “The Maverick” Paul, headlining a blockbuster SHOWTIME PPV event on Sunday, June 6.

The event is presented by Mayweather Promotions, Fanmio and Mavathltcs and will take place at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. The pay-per-view event also will feature a pair of intriguing professional boxing showdowns, as WBA Light Heavyweight Champion Jean Pascal and two-division world champion Badou Jack meet in a 12-round rematch in the co-main event. Plus, former unified super welterweight champion “Swift” Jarrett Hurd returns to the ring to face Luis Arias in a 10-round bout.

In a fourth PPV bout, former NFL star wide receiver Chad Johnson will make his boxing debut in an exhibition match against an opponent to be announced. After years of off-season training with Mayweather in Las Vegas, the man once named Chad Ochocinco will test his skills in the boxing ring and bring his unique brand of fan-friendly entertainment to the star-studded event.

The pay-per-view telecast will begin live at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on Sunday, June 6. Tickets for the live event at Hard Rock Stadium will go on sale next week with additional details regarding tickets and the pay-per-view telecast to be announced shortly.

Mayweather, who was elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame’s Class of 2020, has a perfect 50-0 record with 27 knockouts. He racked up 12 world titles in five weight divisions during his illustrious career that spanned three decades. His brilliant boxing resume includes 24 wins over world champions, including Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya and Canelo Alvarez. During his career, he was named the world’s highest paid athlete multiple times by Forbes, Fortune and Sports Illustrated. Mayweather has accumulated numerous “Fighter of the Year” awards, including five ESPY Awards and two Boxing Writers Association of America awards. His 2015 showdown with Pacquiao shattered the all-time pay-per-view television record with 4.6 million buys, a record that still stands. Mayweather last fought in a boxing exhibition on New Year’s Eve 2018 in Japan. His last professional boxing match was his 2017 stoppage win over Conor McGregor, the second biggest pay-per-view event in television history.

As Mayweather dominated boxing en route to a perfect professional record and international stardom, Paul rose to fame on the internet. Paul, 26, welcomed the world into his life on various social media platforms including YouTube, where he has amassed more than 20 million subscribers. His legions of devoted fans supported him as he stepped into professional boxing in 2019 and sold out the STAPLES Center in Los Angeles in his six-round debut against fellow YouTube star KSI. The Ohio native is a former high school wrestling standout and has been training for more than two years. Now, he readies himself to face an undefeated boxing legend. While Paul stands six inches taller than Mayweather and owns an 18-year age advantage, the social media sensation will be challenging the best boxer of his generation, in his arena.

Pascal (35-6-1, 20 KOs) earned a narrow split-decision victory over Jack in their December 2019 title showdown that saw both men hit the canvas. Prior to that fight, Pascal captured his interim title by handing Marcus Browne the first defeat of his professional career. Pascal scored four knockdowns in that fight, eventually earning a close technical decision when a cut suffered by Browne on an accidental head butt stopped the fight after eight rounds. The 38-year-old has been in the ring with the top fighters of his era during his brilliant career, including Bernard Hopkins, Sergey Kovalev, Carl Froch, Lucian Bute, and Chad Dawson. Pascal, who was born in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti and now lives in Laval, Quebec, won his first light heavyweight world title with a unanimous decision over Adrian Diaconu in 2009.

Jack (22-3-3, 13 KOs) will look to avenge the razor-thin defeat he suffered to Pascal in their first match. Jack mounted an impressive rally on the scorecards that nearly turned the match in his favor. Born in Stockholm, Jack (who represented his father’s home country of Gambia in the 2008 Olympics) now lives in Las Vegas. Jack won the 168-pound world title with a majority decision against Anthony Dirrell in 2015 and successfully defended the belt three times before being handed a hard-fought majority draw against James DeGale in one of 2017’s best fights. In his first bout at 175 pounds, Jack stopped Nathan Cleverly to pick up the WBA light heavyweight title before fighting to a majority draw against then WBC champion Adonis Stevenson in May 2018. In his most recent outing, Jack won a unanimous decision over Blake McKernan in November 2020.

The 30-year-old Hurd (24-1, 16 KOs) unified the WBA and IBF 154-pound titles in 2018, dropping longtime champion Erislandy Lara in the final round to win a close decision in a fight that was the unanimous 2018 Fight of the Year. The Accokeek, Maryland native lost the titles in one of 2019’s best fights, dropping a decision to Julian Williams. Hurd first became champion in February 2017 when he stopped former champion Tony Harrison in the ninth round, before going on to defend the title against another former champion in Austin Trout. Most recently, Hurd scored a unanimous decision victory over Francisco Santana in January 2020.

Born in Milwaukee, Arias (18-2-1, 9 KOs) will return to the ring for the first time since August 2019 when he takes on Hurd on June 6. The 30-year-old has faced some of the best in the middleweight division, including going the distance with former middleweight champion Daniel Jacobs in a 2017 duel. Arias racked up wins in his first 18 pro fights after turning pro in 2012 and is now training in Las Vegas as he prepares for this fight.

Tickets will go on sale tomorrow, Friday, May 14 at 12 p.m. ET for the highly anticipated exhibition showdown between boxing great and 2020 International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee Floyd “Money” Mayweather and social media personality Logan Paul taking place Sunday, June 6 from Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida and headlining a Showtime PPV event. Tickets for the live event range from $150 to $3,000.

Hurd-Arias presser quotes

JARRETT HURD

“Training camp has been great. I haven’t fought in a year and a half, so I had a chance to really take my time with this camp. I’ve had a lot of time to put in the work. I’m training with fighters like Terence Crawford, Shakur Stevenson, Troy Isley and a lot more. We’re all out here working day after day.

“Arias is a great fighter. This is going to be the type of toe-to-toe fight I like. He’s going to be there in front of me and ready to fight. He’s never been stopped, so I’ll be prepared to go the distance.

“We’ve seen this story before from Arias. He talks a big game but look at his fights against top fighters. It doesn’t matter what weight I’m at, Arias knows what’s coming. I suffered a loss, but I got the win in my last fight and I’m on my way back.

“I just need a dominant win on June 6. Luis Arias can make it ugly, but I have to go win convincingly and let everyone know I’m back. I don’t want to win in a sloppy way, I want to look good doing it.

“He might think he’s catching me at the right time, but it’s not going to be a good time for him on June 6. I can box and I can bang, it doesn’t matter. We’ll decide on fight night which style I’m going to use. I know that I can beat him either way.

“I tried to work on my bad habits after my loss. I was a straight-forward guy who just came at you. I wanted to show in my last fight against Francisco Santana that I can use my height and range if I need to. I wanted to box all 10 rounds and I did that.

“I still have too much unfinished business at 154 pounds. I have a lot of fights, including my rematch against Julian Williams, that I still want to get. I want to regain my titles. Me and Jermell Charlo is probably the biggest fight at 154 right now. I want to handle that before I move up in weight.”

LUIS ARIAS

“Camp has been excellent. I’m excited for the fight. I think this is a perfect fight and a perfect opportunity. It’s a great matchup. I’ve been working on the right things to make sure I’m one hundred percent prepared for this fight and I think I’m catching Jarrett Hurd at the right time. He’s switching styles. He really doesn’t know how he wants to fight.

“When this fight was brought to me, he was ranked No. 1 at the Ring Magazine at 154 and that’s part of why I wanted this fight. Leonard Ellerbe asked if I was willing to fight Hurd, and I said one hundred percent. It’s all about challenging yourself. This is another challenge and I never turn down a challenge. I’ve been in there with the best and there’s nothing that Jarrett Hurd can bring to the table that I haven’t already seen.

“A win puts me right back in the mix. I’ve always been just one step away from really getting into the mix with the big guys. My last couple fights have all been just one fight away from getting that world title fight. Once I beat Jarrett Hurd on June 6, I’ll be right there with the big dogs. He’s calling out Jermell Charlo and he wants to fight all these other big names, but he’s going to have to get through me. If he loses to me, I’ll be in position for the fights that he wants.

“It’s going to be a hard fight. If he wants to bang, we can bang. If he says he wants to box, he’s not the better boxer. But there’s only one way to find out and we’re going to find out in two weeks. I have to do everything that I can do to make sure that I show up and I impress.

“I’m still young and I’m still fighting my way through. I just needed to make the proper adjustments. I’m not going to be a desperate fighter. I’m going to go in there and fight the way I fight. I’ve always had championship-level fighting in me, but I just haven’t shown it. This is a perfect opportunity for me to show it.

“I’m coming after him. I have to win. He’s not going to have to find me. I’m going to be right there. If I have to box him in the middle of the ring or if I have to put my head in his chest and dog him out, then that’s what I got to do. From the opening bell to the final bell, if we make it to the final bell, I’m going to be on him. We’ll see what type of adjustments he makes, but I don’t feel he’s a better inside fighter than me and I don’t feel like he’s a better boxer than me.”

Nice card, sans the circus clown exhibition.

Fight Week!

Nice Plant segment.

ironbeard wrote: ↑05 Jun 2021, 15:13 Nice Plant segment.

nicer than these ones?

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑05 Jun 2021, 17:27

ironbeard wrote: ↑05 Jun 2021, 15:13 Nice Plant segment.

nicer than these ones?

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Arias doesnt bring anything yo the table to hang with top fighters

His chance is if hurd is still in denial and tries to box instead of the old margarito style. Then arias might be able to outbox him because hurd has putrid defense

ironbeard wrote: ↑26 May 2021, 13:40 Nice card, sans the circus clown exhibition.

Yes, but is it really PPV?
Let me help you with that, the answer is no, no it isn't, not even close.

KiwiRider wrote: ↑06 Jun 2021, 15:22

ironbeard wrote: ↑26 May 2021, 13:40 Nice card, sans the circus clown exhibition.

Yes, but is it really PPV?
Let me help you with that, the answer is no, no it isn't, not even close.

That was in no way meant as an endorsement, and it was posted prior to the Pedscal news. I would not pay $5 for this circus act. FFS, I haven’t bought an FMJ PPV since at least Canelo. If it was one of the Russki channels on my KartinaTV feed, I would consider watching the under card, unless there is an NHL playoff game on......which it turns out their is, Avalanche v Golden Knights.

Case closed.

ironbeard wrote: ↑26 May 2021, 13:40 Nice card, sans the circus clown exhibition.

tbh, the card seems pretty dump all round to me........isnt arias vs hurd by far the best fight on it

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑06 Jun 2021, 21:36

ironbeard wrote: ↑26 May 2021, 13:40 Nice card, sans the circus clown exhibition.

tbh, the card seems pretty dump all round to me........isnt arias vs hurd by far the best fight on it

Pretty much, and that's not saying much.

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑06 Jun 2021, 21:36

ironbeard wrote: ↑26 May 2021, 13:40 Nice card, sans the circus clown exhibition.

tbh, the card seems pretty dump all round to me........isnt arias vs hurd by far the best fight on it

2-1 Golden Knights, 17 minutes left in 2nd period.

Golden Knights 3-1, in control with 2 mins left in 2nd period.

Power play for Avalanche. They need a score here. 17 left.

hurd lost........was he just a weight bully who couldnt carry things up vs bigger guys

I don’t know but the Vegash Golden Knights have salted game 4 away, 4-1 with 14 minutes to go. This series WILL be knotted at 2-2 heading back to Colorado.

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑06 Jun 2021, 22:38 hurd lost........was he just a weight bully who couldnt carry things up vs bigger guys

At this point the answer must be YES.