25-year-old Jorge Castaneda of Laredo was one of 2021's breakthrough prospects after a two-year layoff due to an illness then a pandemic Castaneda was used as an opponent for Matchroom's hotshot prospect Otha Jones III on the Andrade vs Williams card in Miami, Florida. After that massive upset, Matchroom boss Eddie Hearn took the south Texan over to enemy territory to battle undefeated prospect Youssef Khoumari, at the 02 Arena in the UK and again Castaneda upset the promoter's unbeaten prospect. Making it 2-for-2 against Matchrooms house prospects. Now the Gateway City native gets to cross the border and take on a high-caliber veteran opponent in Mexico City on June 10th on another Matchroom Boxing card that will air live on DAZN. Castaneda 15-1 (11) will battle Eduardo Hernandez Perez, 31-1 (28) in what promises to be an all-action throwdown for Castaneda's WBC International Silver title. Perez is a hard-hitting upstart prospect who has taken one major stepped-up fight back in 2019 and was destroyed by Roger Gutierrez on a Golden Bowl card at the Punch Bowl on the Rey Vargas vs Tomoki Kameda card. It did not go well for Perez, who goes by the alias, Rocky Nino Artillero, and was destroyed in the first round. Gutierrez would go on to win the WBA super featherweight title.
Castaneda was originally scheduled to fight former world champ Kid Galahad on March 12th on the undercard of Mick Conlan vs Leigh Wood card at the Nottingham Arena. Galahad pulled out of the fight on late notice due to suffering a self-described setback in training camp. Eddie Hearn did a great job of getting the hard-hitting Castaneda back in the ring relatively quickly and against a quality opponent. Another win for Castaneda into a big money fight later in the year potentially against Galahad or even Leigh Wood who holds the WBA 130-Pound world title.