"El Finito" Hector Tanajara Returns in March on Loaded San Antonio Card

One of The Alamo City's brightest young stars Hector "El Finito" Tanajara, returns to the ring at the Shrine Auditorium in his home city, on Marvh12th. The fight will be held on a Sunday afternoon and is put on in conjunction with Gamez Law Firm, South Park Boxing, Robert Garcia Boxing Academy as well as Triple-A promotions.

Tanajara, a promising now junior welterweight fighter, ended a two-fight skid in 2021 and '22 that resulted in his first career blemishes a loss in 2021, and a draw in 2022. He returned home to San Antonio this past November to get back on track at a new weight and scored an impressive fifth-round TKO over Antonio Meija at the Tech Port Arena on the city's west side. It was an impressive return from the super-sharp contender who sports a 20-1-1 (6) and is still just 26 years old and still has world title aspirations to go along with world title skills that he reminded the boxing world of last November.

The card will feature a load of Robert Garcia fighters that will include surging prospect, Daniel Cortez of San Antonio who was one of the top Texas prospects to watch emerge in 2023. Plus the long and rangy Junior Middleweight prospect Sylvestre Quinonez who resides in the nearby hill country will be featured on the card. There will also be a loaded undercard that will feature highly touted and hard-hitting Super Featherweight Henry "World Star" Arredondo, who has gone viral for a variety of knockouts and has been featured on nationally televised PBC cards. Additionally, rising blue chip prospect Javy Fernandez, who was also featured as one of the best prospects to watch in Texas will be back in action and will look to move his career record to 13-. Plus, touted welterweight prospect and former amateur standout Jason Limon will be in action, all of San Antonio. In another special attraction fight, fans will get another look at fan-favorite women fighter and professional model Mayra Rodriguez. Rodriguez has previously worked as a ring girl and is the current face of, and official model for, Fade Life Clothing.

Frank Gore Headlines TMB Promoted Card in San Antonio

Frank Gore is the NFL's all-time leading rusher with 16,000 career rushing yards. The list is:

1. Emmit Smith

2. Walter Payton

3. Frank Gore

That's the list. That's the level Frank Gore operated at in the NFL during an incredible career that ran from 2005-2020 that also saw Gore collect 81 career rushing TDs and 3985 receiving yards. The future football hall of Famer has now embarked on a successful prizefighting career. After an exhibition bout with former NBA legend and graduate of The Colony High School in the DFW Metroplex, Deron Williams. Gore embarked on a professional career that got off to a spectacular start knocking out Olasehinde Olorunsola in the fourth round in their fight back in May in Biloxi. Mississippi. He returns to the ring on a Team Morones Boxing Card in San Antonio at the Freeman Coliseum. He will scrap with San Antonio local Joshua Romero (0-2) in a four-round heavyweight affair.

The co-main event will showcase the return of one of San Antonio's favorite fighting sons Richard "El Castigo '' Medina (13-1). He looks to bounce back off of his lone career defeat in June when he was outpointed by Raymond Ford at the Tech Port Arena. He will battle with fellow Alamo City native Steve Garagarza (3-5-1)

Also on the card is hard-hitting fan favorite "Worldstar" Arredondo, who returns to the ring after his draw with "Fort Worth Wolf" Tony Lopez in Frisco. Arrendondo, 8-1-1, will battle with rugged veteran Rafael Reyes, 20-15, in a scheduled six-rounder. Undefeated Flyweight prospect Guillermo Gutierrez will also be in action.

The card also has two very intriguing women's bouts. Professional model, ring girl, and amateur stand-out Mayra Rodriguez will make her pro-debut against undefeated Dallas native Abril Anguiano in a scheduled four-rounder. Also, all-action fan favorite Mi Vida Loca" Brittany Ordonez returns to the ring and will battle Destiny Jones in a six-round affair.

Lopez and Arredondo settle for Draw on Hall Of Fame Night for Texas Boxing.

In what was a very special "Night To Fight" that celebrated the founding of the Texas Boxing Hall of Fame and honored the inaugural class. A class that included former world champs such, as Donald Curry, Paulie Ayala, and countless others delivered an incredibly exciting night of fights. In the main event at the Comerica Center in Frisco, hard-hitting 26-year-old prospect "World Star" Henry Arredondo of San Antonio and the savvy "Fort Worth Wolf" Tony Lopez battled to a very entertaining draw in a six-round super featherweight affair.

Lopez, who took the fight on five days' notice, came out incredibly sharp. Jabbing from his southpaw stance he was scoring at will and mixing in left hands. He was able to keep Arredondo at bay and was able to outland him when the San Antonian did get onto the inside. After a bit of a slow start, Arredondo got going in the third picking up the pace and scoring on the inside. Jabbing his way in he began outworking and out landing Lopez. Firing off sharp combinations that backed his man up. The momentum seemed to shift and Arredondo kept his foot on the gas. However, the Fort Worthian was not done and landed a left hand in the fourth that wobbled the surging Arredondo toward the end of the round. Not wanting to give the round away, Worldstar answered right back with a clean two-piece that landed cleanly on the jaw of Lopez. Arrendondo got back to in the fifth and was again outworking and out-landing Lopez in the fifth, a good round for the Alamo City native. With the fight possibly slipping away The Fort Worthian rallied back in the sixth and final stanza, he stunned Arredondo with a left hand that backed him into the ropes and the Fort Worthian unleashed a ferocious combination of shots to close the fight in style. At the end of six, it appeared to be close to call, and the judges agreed. With two of the three scorings it 57-57 even and the third scored for the San Antonian 58-56. Both parties expressed an interest in a rematch. Arredondo's record moves to 8-1-1 (4) and Lopez is now 17-11-1 (7).

A star was born in the co-main event as Roberto Cruz originally of Cayey, Puerto Rico, but now fighting out of Killeen, Texas, put on the performance of the night in stopping a tough, bad badly outmatched Felipe Reyes from Houston. Working calmly behind a snappy jab and circling around the ring Cruz seized control of the fight from the opening moments. He could not miss with a laser-like right that found its mark early and often. One particular right hand wobbled and nearly dropped Reyes late in the second. Reyes stayed on his feet and survived the round. However, The writing was on the wall and Cruz stayed on the attack. Stalking his man down he hurt Reyes with every right hand. Reyes, who has deducted two points for hitting Cruz to the back was clearly on his last legs. The Puerto Rican was unphased by the constant fouls and kept scoring with and laser-like right hands and mixing in left hooks and uppercuts for good measure. One particular right-hand in the third put Reyes down and in the fourth, the Puerto Rican closed the deal in style closing the show with a barrage of power shots that left Reyes unable to continue. The bout was waived off at 1:19 of round number 4.

In an all-Texas shootout primarily bout, between Cesar Torres of Tyler and Randy Rivera, originally of Cuba, but now fighting out of the famous Maple ave Gym in Dallas. exchanged heavy artillery throughout the scheduled four-round affair. Rivera landed a thudding right-hand left hook combination just before the bell rang to end the opening stanza. Then picked up where he left off with another left hook moments into the second round. Rivera stepped on the gas to start the fourth and final round, scoring with a thudding right hand. Rivera used the ring scoring with stinging rights. Torres pressed the action and landed shots in close range trying to slow down his man and cut the ring off. Torres stayed determined however Rivera stopped the momentum with one of his patented right hands. A mouthpiece fell from Rivera's mouth and then Rivera was deducted for holding but he rallied late with sharp right hands that likely saved a 9-9 round for him and then fight as he rolled to a split decision by the narrowest of margins scores 38-37 for Rivera 38-37 for Torres 38-37 randy Rivera.

A Loaded Three Nights Of Boxing in the Lone Star State

An absolutely loaded weekend of boxing is headed to Texas. In all, the Lone Star State will play host to four different cards. San Antonio has a Friday Card Promoted by Boxing's Finest Promotions. Then Saturday, there is a Davies Entertainment card. The week's action kicks off in Houston on a Thursday night card, with the fourth and final being a DFW area card in Frisco.

The action kicks off Thursday night in Houston on a UCF Streamed card co-promoted by Roy Jones Jr Promotions and ForceTrain/Next Fight Up. The card is headlined, by highly tortured Greek prospect Andreas Katzourakis, who now fights out of Los Angeles, California. He puts his 7-0 (5) record on the line against savvy veteran Cameron Krael 19-22-3 (6) in an 8-round affair. Katzourakis scored a six-round unanimous decision victory over Isiah Jones back in June. In the co-main event, native Houstonian Eduardo Garcia will put his 9-0 record on the line against hard-hitting Mexican knockout artist Abdel Sauceda in an 8-round affair. Garcia is fresh off his summer victory, a career-best win over Dewayne Bonds. The card also features Sugar Land native Bui Ephraim as well as, 8-1-1 Rio Grande Valley native Isaac Torres.

The action moves to San Antonio with two major cards. In Friday night's affair at the Shrine Auditorium, hard-hitting San Antonio native Javy Fernandez puts his undefeated 10-0 record on the line against rugged veteran and former ABF champion Rafael Reyes in the main event. Fernandez is coming off a close and perhaps controversial decision of Weslaco native Cesar Cantu back in August. The card also features all-world blue chip prospect Felix Garcia of Laredo. Garcia, a 17-year-old sensation, sports a perfect 3-0 record and picked up his last victory in the Gateway City by taking a points victory over 18-fight veteran Hector Gutierrez.

The action stays in San Antonio but moves to the Tech Port Arena on Saturday night. The main event is for a vacant ABF welterweight title, as Kevin Johnson 11-2 takes on Alejandro Frias Rodriguez. In the Co-main event Reshard "Too Quick" Hicks returns from a three-year layoff to battle Marquis Hawthorne. The card also features other high-level fighters like undefeated lightweight from Corpus Christi Xavier Nunez and Jason Limon, 4-0-1 of San Antonio, as well as female standouts Iranda Paola Torres and Melissa Holguin, both of San Antonio.

The action concludes at COMERICA Arena in Frisco. The night's main event features the comebacking Henry "World Star" Arredondo. World Star looks to score his second consecutive victory following his lone career defeat against the Fort Worth Wolf Tony Lopez a veteran of 28 professional fights and has been in with premier names like Floyd Schofield, Max Ornelas, Rico Ramos and has a win over Fernando Garcia. The card also features the return of Fort Worth native Jordan Najar 1-0 (0). as well as the professional debut of Juan Gomez.

Young Stable of Stars Set to Shine In San Antonio

San Antonio's boxing scene is absolutely on fire. Josh Franco just defended his version of the super flyweight title. Mario Barrios a former world champion was involved in the fight of the year and the Pay Per View extravaganza of the year. On top of that there are countless other Alamo City stars who are bursting onto the scene, Bam Rodriguez, Hector Tanajara, Ramon Cardenas, Rick Medina, "Goyo" Gregory Morales all call the Alamo City home.  Boxing is engrained into the fabric of San Antonio it's a fighting city composed of fighters. That goes for the stars mentioned above as well as the developing stars, the under-the-radar. hidden gems that are also at no shortage in San Antonio.

 Cameron Davies, a San Antonian, who is famous for creating "Cruising Kitchens" designing and fabricating extravagant mobile Kitchens has put a major investment into some of these up-and-coming super prospects. Creating a state-of-the-art gym for them to train and sharpen their skills at, and is completely dedicated to putting on regular shows to build his fighter's records and prepare them to fight at the highest level. He has invested the time and money into building a stable of exciting young fighters who will have an opportunity to shine this Saturday at their home gym. 

Davies's stable includes exciting featherweight knockout Artist "World Star" Henry Arredondo who sports a 7-1 record, who has been a major ticket seller in San Antonio for the past few years. Building up a quality resume that includes a highlight real of spectacular one-punch knockouts. Arredondo's lone career loss comes at the hands of Eros Correa, a dispute decision, that was originally announced for Arredondo, a decision that no one flinched at because everyone seemingly thought World Star was the rightful winner but was moments leader corrected and given to Correa. A decision that got a lot of attention from boxing media, because they seemed to have gotten it right the first time, among the vocal critics was two-time welterweight world champion "Showtime" Shawn Porter who on his podcast acknowledged he thought the San Antoninian had clearly won the fight.  Arredondo will look to bounce back from his lone career defeat against veteran Charles Clark.

Next up is Floyd Schofield who is known as " Kid Austin" is from Austin, Texas, and got his boxing start at  Richard Lord’s Boxing gym, which was home to the legendary fan favorite all-action James Kirkland.  Schofield, is more of a pure boxer and has lightning-quick reflexes and an equally as quick jab. he also packs surprising power as was on full display when he fought Ricardo Esquibel on Telemundo and ended his night just 1 minute and 40 seconds with a tremendous left hook that dropped Esquibel like a building imploding on itself that was aired live on Telemundo. Schofield sports a perfect 6-0 record and will take on  Roberto Almazan in a six-rounder on Saturday night.

Perhaps the crown jewel of Davies Entertainment's stable is the young former  Amateur standout and national champion the undefeated blue-chip featherweight prospect Xavier Nunez. Nunez, who hails from Corpus Christi,  sports a perfect  2-0 record, and despite still being a teenager has already fought on a major card and garnered national attentional. Nunez kicked off the Charlo-Castano undercard with a spectacular fourth-round stoppage of David Alfaro in the  AT&T Center in San Antonio. Corpus Christi has had a former world champion Jessie Benevidez who held the WBO Super bantamweight belt (from 91-92)  ad challenged for a world title in the featherweight division. The same division Nunez competes at.  A division former world title challenger and Corpus Christi native Jerry Belmontes can certainly win a world title at.