This week’s schedule of televised fights includes a world-title bout at middleweight, an interim belt on the line at super middleweight, plus several other shows. Here’s what you should know about what’s on and who’s fighting:
Thursday, March 19: Felix Parrilla vs. Jose Velasquez (DAZN)
The broadcast begins at 8pm Eastern Time (midnight GMT).
Parrilla, 12-0 (10 KOs), is a 26-year-old Puerto Rican prospect competing at featherweight and junior lightweight. He’ll be headlining in front of a home crowd at the Coliseo Pedrin Zorrilla in the island’s capital city of San Juan. Both of Parrilla’s fights in 2025 were also in Puerto Rico – a seventh-round stoppage of the 9-1 Edgardo Rolon Varela and a third-round knockout of the 15-5-2 Kenneth Taylor.
Velasquez, 34-12-3 (24 KOs), is a 36-year-old former world-title challenger from Chile. He had a nice run between 2019 and 2021 against prospects at bantamweight and junior featherweight, giving the first losses to the 9-0 Ramon Averanga, the 21-0 Melving Lopez and the 16-0-1 Ariel Lopez. That earned Velasquez a shot at unified 122lbs titleholder Murodjon Akhmadaliev in 2021. Akhmadaliev won a wide decision.
Since then, Velasquez has gone 5-5-1 – including three straight decision losses in 2023 and 2024 to Shingo Wake, David Cuellar and Bryan Vazquez. He also was shut out in May 2025 by the 25-2 Yerny Betancourt. In October, Velasquez bounced back with a seventh-round TKO of a 9-11 opponent.
Friday, March 20: Michael Conlan vs. Kevin Walsh (DAZN)
The broadcast begins at 3pm Eastern Time (7pm GMT).
Conlan, 20-3 (10 KOs), is a 34-year-old from Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he’ll be headlining at The SSE Arena. The two-time Olympian won bronze in 2012 and then strongly felt he was robbed in the 2016 tournament, flipping his middle fingers after losing to Vladimir Nikitin in the bantamweight quarter-finals. As a pro, Conlan defeated Nikitin via decision in 2019.
Conlan developed into a contender and went on to lose to secondary featherweight titleholder Leigh Wood in the 12th round of 2022’s fight of the year. After two victories, Conlan suffered back-to-back stoppage losses in 2023 to then-titleholder Luis Alberto Lopez and 27-2-1 junior lightweight Jordan Gill. Conlan took off 2024 and returned in 2025 with a pair of wins, most recently taking out the 20-1-1 Jack Bateson in four rounds in September.
Walsh, 19-0 (10 KOs), is a 33-year-old from Brockton, Massachusetts. He fought four times in 2025: an eighth-round TKO of the 12-1 Ricky de los Santos; a split decision over former junior-featherweight title challenger Tramaine Williams; an 80-second win against the 19-16-1 Angel Luna; and a unanimous victory over the 8-1 Jose Nunez Sosa.
Saturday, March 21: Lester Martinez vs. Immanuwel Aleem (ProBox TV)
The broadcast begins at 7pm Eastern Time (11pm GMT).
Martinez, 19-0-1 (16 KOs), was one point on one scorecard away from winning the interim WBC super-middleweight title in September. Instead, his fight-of-the-year candidate with Christian Mbilli was ruled a split draw. Mbilli retained the secondary WBC title and was then promoted when undisputed champion Terence Crawford retired and vacated his belts. And so Martinez’s team was able to petition for the 30-year-old from Guatemala to face Aleem with the interim belt again on the line.
Aleem, 22-3-3 (14 KOs), is a 32-year-old resident of Richmond, Virginia, who is ranked eighth by the WBC at 168lbs. During his time at middleweight, Aleem fought to a draw with Demond Nicholson in 2016, stopped the previously unbeaten Ievgen Khytrov in 2017, was knocked out by Hugo Centeno Jnr in the third round that same year, and fought Matvey Korobov to a draw in 2019.
Then came back-to-back losses, both by majority decision, to the 16-1-2 Ronald Ellis in 2019 and the 12-0 Amilcar Vidal Jnr in 2021. Aleem then moved up in weight and has gone 4-0-1 since. Most recently, he had a technical draw in November 2024 against the 22-2-1 Winfred Harris Jnr, and Aleem then stopped Nicholson in the ninth round of their rematch in July.
In the co-feature at the National Orange Show Event Center in San Bernardino, California, junior-middleweight prospect Joshua Kevin Anton, 12-0 (11 KOs), will face Kudratillo Abdukakhorov, 22-5 (14 KOs).
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Saturday, March 21: Carlos Adames vs. Austin “Ammo” Williams (DAZN)
The broadcast begins at 8pm Eastern Time (midnight GMT).
This fight was originally supposed to take place on January 31 in New York City underneath Teofimo Lopez vs. Shakur Stevenson, but Adames had to pull out the day before after going to hospital for dehydration. Now it will instead headline at the Caribe Royale Orlando in Florida.
Adames, 24-1-1 (18 KOs), is coming off a long lay-off. The 31-year-old from the Dominican Republic last fought in February 2025, when he defended his WBC middleweight title in a draw with Hamzah Sheeraz that many believe should have been a victory for Adames.
Williams, 20-1 (13 KOs), is ranked third at 160lbs by the WBC. His defeat came via 11th-round TKO to Sheeraz in June 2024. Williams, a 29-year-old from Florida, is on a four-fight winning streak. He is making a very quick turnaround after winning a 10-round decision on January 31 against last-minute replacement Wendy Toussaint.
The undercard will feature a number of prospects, including heavyweight Teremoana Teremoana, 9-0 (9 KOs), junior middleweight Omari Jones, 5-0 (4 KOs), and bantamweight Jordan Orozco Hernandez, 15-0 (15 KOs).
Saturday, March 21: George Liddard vs. Tyler Denny (DAZN)
The broadcast begins at 3pm Eastern Time (7pm GMT).
Liddard, 13-0 (8 KOs), is a 23-year-old middleweight prospect from Billericay, England, who is ranked 12th by the WBA and 15th by the IBF. He fought three times in 2025, outpointing the 13-2 Derrick Osaze; stopping the 19-1 Aaron Sutton in five rounds; and taking out the 23-3-1 Kieron Conway in the 10th round.
He’ll remain at the domestic level of opposition against fellow British fighter Denny, 21-3-3 (1 KO), a 34-year-old from Rowley Regis. Denny gave the 16-0 Felix Cash his first loss, which came in a cut-shortened five-round technical decision in 2024. Denny then went on to get demolished by Hamzah Sheeraz in five minutes. In 2025, Denny took points wins over opponents with records of 13-3 and 19-17.
Among the prospects on the undercard at the Copper Box Arena in London: middleweight Jimmy Sains, 11-0 (10 KOs), will face Osaze, who’s 13-3 (3 KOs); and lightweight Giorgio Visioli, 10-0 (6 KOs), takes on Levi Giles, 17-2-1 (4 KOs).
Saturday, March 21: Daniel Lapin vs. Kristaps Bulmeistars (DAZN)
The broadcast begins at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time (5:30 p.m. GMT).
Lapin, 12-0 (4 KOs), is a light-heavyweight prospect from Ukraine who will be fighting in his home country for the first time since April 2021, an understandable gap given the ongoing war with Russia. In July, Lapin took a close majority decision over the 11-0 Lewis Edmondson. That has Lapin ranked fourth by the WBA, eighth by the IBF and 10th by the WBO.
Bulmeistars, 14-4 (5 KOs), is a 33-year-old from Latvia. Two of his defeats came by decision, both in 2023, ands both within the super-middleweight limit: against the 13-1 Karol Welter and the 15-1 Ralfs Vilcans. After moving up in weight, Bulmeistars failed to make it out of the first round against the 9-0 Ezra Taylor in 2024 and the 10-0 Moreno Fendero in June 2025.
David Greisman, who has covered boxing since 2004, is on Twitter @FightingWords2. David’s book, “Fighting Words: The Heart and Heartbreak of Boxing,” is available on Amazon.
