The Fort Bend Community Center in Rosenberg, Texas, will host this Saturday's middleweight unification bout between WBO champ Zhanibek Alimkhanuly and IBF Champ Vincenzo Gualtieri which will air live on ESPN. The card will feature Giovanni Marquez, 6-0 (4), of Houston, is the son of former US Olympian and Jr Middleweight world champion Raul Marquez. He will take a step up in competition and battle Donte Strayhorn, who is coming off a draw with Fort Worth native Benjamin Gurment in July.
Also on the card is Nelson "Hot Hands" Hampton, a Rio Grande Valley native who has compiled a 10-7 (6) record and is coming off a disputed loss to Roberto Almazan in Mercedes. He will battle unbeaten prospect Alan Garcia 9-0 (8), in a six-round lightweight affair.
We move to the heavyweight division as former college football star and surging heavyweight Tyrell "Too Real" Herndon, 21-4 (14), of San Antonio, puts his nine-fight win streak on the line against perhaps the best US heavyweight prospect to come along in quite some time, 24-year-old US Olympic silver medalist and undefeated professional 6-0 (6) Richard Torrez Jr. It will be a scheduled six-rounder but no one has gone past three round with Torrez thus far.