Boxing’s “Million Dollar Man” Justin Pauldo is back in action on ProBox TV to fight Mexican veteran Juan Carlos Burgos.
They will meet at the Boeing Center at Tech Port in San Antonio, Texas, on Saturday June 7. It’s the same venue where Pauldo last fought – and stopped tough Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov in eight rounds.
Pauldo, a lightweight, is now 18-2 (9 KOs). Though born in Orlando, he fights out of Houston.
Burgos, a former world title challenger, has been mixing it up at a high level for years, swapping punches with the likes of hot prospect Andy Cruz, champion Keyshawn Davis, Angel Fierro, Mikey Garcia and Devin Haney.
Pauldo, meanwhile, is in his prime at 30 years old, ranked in the top 15 by both the WBC and the WBO, and will look to stake his claim to a world title fight with an impressive performance.
Burgos, 37, is 36-8-3 (22 KOs).
On the same card, teenage sensation Emiliano Moreno will return to the ring, with the 19-year-old from Long Beach, California, hoping to improve to 13-0. The welterweight prospect meets experienced Ecuadorian Erick Bone, 29-7 (15 KOs).
The show also features bantamweight Michael Angeletti, 13-0 (8 KOs); junior lightweight Xavier Bocanegra, 7-0 (5 KOs); and his brother Ranulfo Bocanegra, a 2-0 (1 KO) featherweight.
And there’s a host of prospects and other fighters on the bill, including Emilio Garcia, 1-0 (1 KO), a Texan welterweight; Amador Mendez, 3-0 (2 KOs), a lightweight from the same state; Rianna Rios, 9-0 (1 KO), a southpaw bantamweight residing in Maryland but born in Texas; Amanda Sendejo, a 1-0 Texan flyweight; Jesus Martinez, a 9-0-1 (4 KOs) flyweight; junior welterweight Jason Limon, 10-2-1 (2 KOs); and Figo Ramirez, 9-0 (4 KOs), a Mexican who lives in Texas and fights at junior featherweight.