LAS VEGAS – Lightweights Andres Cortes and Eridson Garcia will meet in the main event of Zuffa Boxing 5 April 5 at the UFC Apex, the promotion announced Sunday.
Las Vegas’ Cortes, 24-0 (13 KOs), and the Dominican Republic-born Garcia, 23-1 (14 KOs), are both top-10 ranked junior-lightweights by the WBO, with No. 4 Cortes, 28, also ranked by the IBF and WBC while Garcia is in the WBA top 15.
Cortes fought for Top Rank dating to the COVID era, and closed his union with the promotion in October, taking a fight at Thunder Studios in Long Beach, California, as Top Rank functions without a broadcast/streaming deal.
He defeated Derlyn Hernandez-Gerarldo by fourth-round knockout.
Garcia fought four times last year, closing the year impressively by upsetting Japan’s Taiga Imananga on the December 27 card in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
BoxingScene previously reported the Zuffa Boxing Easter card will feature a co-main event pitting former WBC featherweight champion Mark Magsayo versus former WBA junior-lightweight title challenger Feargal McCrory.
