Francois Scarboro Jnr is a unique boxing story for all the right reasons. 

Scarboro will face Maxwel Montes on Friday at the Maryland Live Casino in Hanover, Maryland. The bout will stream on ProBox TV. 

Scarboro, 13-0 (9 KOs), is not your average prospect. The 29-year-old attended Glenville State University in West Virginia. His corner, including his trainer Ernesto Rodriguez and his manager/father Francois Scarboro Snr, shows up on fight night in suits. The fighter from Cheverly, Maryland brings a crowd that he dubbed “Scarboro Nation” with lawyers and doctors cheering him on, as well as his peers. Scarboro is not the rags-to-riches boxing story; he is a student-athlete who had academic success, looking to channel that into the pros. 

“With boxers, you typically hear the same story of coming from a struggling background, where boxing has been their life, and they don’t know what they would do without it,” Scarboro Snr told BoxingScene. “With Frankie, if he wasn’t fighting, he would have a degree in business. If he weren’t in college, he would be a certified firefighter.”

Scarboro has fought five undefeated fighters. In 2024, he defeated Ferris Dixon Jnr and Wayne Lawrence, two unbeaten prospects in consecutive fights. Last year, he fought three times on ProBox TV. In January, he defeated Brandon Valdes via a 10-round unanimous decision at the same venue where he will fight this week. 

This part of Scarboro’s career is about exercising patience. The team wants big fights, but they are also gaining valuable experience and ring time. This will be Scarboro’s second time in a 10-rounder, which means bigger fights are ahead, as long as he keeps winning. 

“Without assassinating anyone’s character, there are a lot of fighters who are under 20 fights who have told us no,” Scarboro said. “We want to make sure he is well-rounded, so when we start asking all parties at 130lbs to surrender their hardware, that this is not a warning, but an eviction notice, we want him to be able to say he has seen a lot of different things.”

That leads to this week, where he fights Montes, 13-4-1 (7 KOs), who recently picked up a win after losing a unanimous decision to unbeaten prospect Austin Brooks in September. Montes, a 26-year-old from Managua, Nicaragua, has never been stopped. 

“I told Frankie everyone gets the same ass-whooping,” Scarboro said. “It is a one-size-fits-all.”