WBC light heavyweight world champion Oleksandr “The Nail” Gvozdyk and IBF light heavyweight world champion Artur Beterbiev will fight in a highly anticipated title unification bout at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia.
The World Boxing Organisation World Feather Champion Emanuel Navarrete will defend his title against Christopher Diaz. Navarrete won the title in 2020 when he gained weight and change the division. His opponent was Ruben Villa. Navarrete is a former WBO World Super Bantam Champion with 5 successful defences of the title. Christopher Diaz is former WBO NABO Super Feather Champion. He has only one successful defence of the title but is but he is battle-tested, having challenged Masayuki Ito for the WBO junior lightweight world title in July 2018. Diaz rebounded from a 2019 points loss to Shakur Stevenson, besting former world title challenger Jason Sanchez over 10 rounds last June inside the MGM Grand Las Vegas Bubble.
Joseph “Blessed Hands” Adorno, a former amateur standout with one-punch knockout power, will face Hugo Alberto Roldan in a new 10-round super lightweight main event on SHOBOX: The New Generation on Friday, September 9, live on SHOWTIME at 9 p.m. ET/PT from Bally’s Atlantic City Hotel & Casino’s Grand Ballroom.
