Las Cruces boxer Austin Trout is scheduled to struggle for the primary time in 2022, and for the primary time in Europe, on Friday.
Trout (34-5-2, 18 knockouts), the previous WBA junior middleweight champion, is matched in opposition to Florin Cardos (21-3, 9 KOs) in a scheduled eight-round bout in Wuppertal, Germany.
The cardboard, staged by German promoter Karim Akkar, will likely be streamed on Fite.television pay-per-view. The streaming is scheduled to start at 9:30 a.m. MDT, owing to the eight-hour time distinction.
Trout now lives and trains in Houston, the place he and his spouse, Taylor, purchased a home earlier this 12 months. Born in El Paso, he has lived in Las Cruces for many of his 36 years. He’s a Mayfield Excessive Faculty graduate and attended New Mexico State College.
Cardos, a 34-year-old native of Romania, trains in London. Whereas his report is spectacular, he hasn’t confronted almost the standard of opposition that Trout has. All 5 of Trout’s losses have come in opposition to fighters who’re or have been world champions like himself.
Trout received the WBA title in 2011, defeating Rigoberto Alvarez by unanimous choice, and efficiently defended 4 instances earlier than dropping the belt to Canelo Alvarez, Rigoberto’s youthful brother, two years later.
After dropping three of 4 fights between Might 2016 and June 2018, Trout is 3-0-1 since then.
Having signed with Akkar’s Legacy Sports activities Administration (no connection to Albuquerque’s Legacy Promotions), Trout defeated Mexico’s Alejandro Davila by unanimous choice in August in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. A second struggle in Dubai, scheduled for March, fell by means of.
Trout is well-traveled, having fought 3 times in Mexico as an expert in addition to in Dubai.
He fought as an newbie in Jeju, South Korea.
He traveled to Athens as an Olympic alternate in 2004 however didn’t have an official bout there.
BARE KNUCKLES FOR DODSON: Albuquerque MMA fighter John Dodson is scheduled to make his bare-knuckle combating debut on Aug. 27 on the Rio Rancho Occasions Middle.
Dodson’s struggle in opposition to fellow MMA veteran Ryan Benoit is a part of a Naked Knuckle Preventing Championship card — the primary sanctioned bare-knuckle card to be staged in New Mexico, although remoted bare-knuckle bouts on professional boxing playing cards have taken place.
Dodson is 21-13 as an MMA fighter, Benoit 10-8.
In November, Benoit drew a 10-month suspension — retroactive to final July 31 — after testing constructive for a banned sleep-apnea product. He was launched by the UFC after his loss that night time to Zarrukh Adashev.
Dodson, 37, was launched by the UFC after an extended and colourful profession with that group — he twice fought for the UFC flyweight title — after his August 2020 loss to Merab Dvalishvili. He’s 1-1 within the cage since, dropping by unanimous choice to Cody Gibson and defeating Francisco Rivera Jr. by the identical route on XMMA playing cards.
AMATEUR BOXING: Six New Mexicans, headed by elite ladies’s 139-pounder Sharahya Moreu of Albuquerque and multi-time nationwide champion Joscelyn Olayo-Muñoz of Las Cruces, are listed as taking part on this week’s USA Boxing Nationwide Junior Olympics and Summer season Competition in Wichita, Kansas.
The competitors started Monday and ends Saturday.
Olayo-Muñoz is entered within the Intermediate Feminine 101-pound class.
Becoming a member of them are Yoruba Moreu Jr. (119 Youth Male), Sharahya’s youthful brother; Las Vegas’ Kaleb Medina (131 Youth Male); Las Cruces’ Victoria McAuliffe (119 Junior Feminine); and Albuquerque’s Jorge Villaruel (114 Junior Male).
On Monday, New Mexico boxers went 0-3. Sharahya Moreu misplaced by break up (3-2) choice to Colorado’s Heather Cirka. Villaruel misplaced by unanimous choice to Florida’s Damian Lora. Medina misplaced by unanimous choice to Pennsylvania’s Christian Ortiz.