LAS VEGAS – Premier Boxing Champions heads to the summer with the intention of crowning a three-division champion and to present a slate of compelling fight cards.
The promotion headed by Al Haymon will bring former three-belt welterweight champion Errol Spence Jnr back from a near three-year hiatus for a July 25 Prime Video pay-per-view junior-middleweight bout against former 154lbs champion Tim Tszyu in Tszyu’s home country, Australia.
PBC will stage a news conference featuring Spence and Tszyu Saturday morning at MGM Grand before it sends two-division champion David Benavidez, 31-0 (25 KOs), to face unified cruiserweight champion Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez at T-Mobile Arena.
Meanwhile, BoxingScene learned Friday that PBC is expecting a summer card – perhaps as soon as June – headed by Lamont Roach Jnr versus former lightweight title challenger William Zepeda.
Co-promoted like Saturday’s card with PBC and Oscar De La Hoya’s Golden Boy Promotions representing the given fighters, Roach-Zepeda offers the WBC’s top two contenders, with the winner left in prime position to claim the vacant title.
Roach, 25-1-3 (10 KOs), is coming off consecutive disputed draws versus Gervonta “Tank” Davis and Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz, and Zepeda, 33-1 (27 KOs), suffered his first loss in July to unbeaten four-division champion Shakur Stevenson.
While exercising caution on the timing, PBC is aiming for the legally troubled three-division champion Davis, 30-0-1 (28 KOs), to return to the ring by the early fall.
It would be the Baltimore fighter’s first bout since his WBA lightweight title fight draw at New York’s Barclays Center versus Roach, who was deprived of a knockdown (and victory) by referee Steve Willis.
Although De La Hoya on Friday strongly proposed unbeaten and WBA top-ranked contender Floyd Schofield for a Davis bout, another official more connected to the PBC situation said Mexico’s former 140lbs champion Isaac “Pitbull” Cruz is the most likely opponent at this hour.
WBC interim 140lbs champion Cruz, 28-3-2 (18 KOs), fought Davis to a tightly contested unanimous decision loss as a 2021 replacement opponent in Los Angeles.
