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Ramon Cardenas vs. Leonardo Carrillo, Plus Two
More 10-Round Fights Added To Martinez vs. Plantic
WBA No. 2- and WBC No. 4-ranked super bantamweight Ramon
“Dinamita” Cardenas, 27-2 (15 KOs), of San Antonio, will
face WBA No. 12-ranked Leonardo Carrillo, 20-1-1 (9 KOs), of
Panama City, in one of three new 10-round televised fights
on ProBoxTV’s live world championship broadcast (7:30 PM
ET/4:30 PM PT), Saturday, August 29, from the Galen Center
in Los Angeles.
Also added to The Contender Series portion of the show will
be a 10-round lightweight battle between IBF No. 10- and WBA
No. 14-ranked Luis “Koreano” Torres Valenzuela, 22-1 (13
KOs), and Jordan “Shortdog” White, 20-2 (12 KOs).
Plus Filipino knockout artist Weljon Mindoro, 17-0-1 (16
KOs), will take on three-time world title challenger Carlos
Ocampo, 38-4, 26 KOs, of Mexico.
All three additional fights will be televised in support of
WBC interim world super-middleweight champion Lester
Martinez defending his interim title for the first time
against WBC No. 3- and IBF No. 13-ranked Luka “The Thunder”
Plantic in the night’s 12-round main event.
WBA No. 4-, WBC No. 10-, IBF No. 9-, and WBO No. 15-ranked
light-heavyweight Najee Lopez, 16-0 (13 KOs), takes on WBA
No. 9-ranked Colombian Juan Carrillo, 15-0 (11 KOs), in the
co-featured bout.
Ramon Cardenas rose to prominence in May of last year by
putting up a brave stand while challenging unified world
super-bantamweight champion, Naoya Inoue. Cardenas was able
to drop Inoue in round two before being dropped in round
seven and stopped in round eight. 30-year-old Cardenas was
last seen knocking out Mexico’s Erik Robles with one punch
in five rounds in December of last year. It was Cardenas’
fourth appearance on ProBoxTV.
Leonardo Carrillo, originally from El Copey, Colombia, is an
11-year professional who will be making his United States
fighting debut that night. Carrillo’s only loss came to WBA
No. 1-ranked junior featherweight Mukhammad Shekhov by
unanimous decision in 2023. 33-year-old Carrillo has won
three consecutive fights since, most recently, a unanimous
10-round decision over then 15-3-1 Luis Robles Pacheco in
May 2025.
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