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Full Card Taking Shape For Martinez vs. Aleem World
Championship Event On March 21
The supporting bouts are taking shape for ProBoxTV’s
blockbuster event on Saturday, March 21, headlined by WBC
#3-ranked Lester Martinez’s historic WBC Interim Super
Middleweight Championship battle against top contender
Immanuwel “The Chosen One” Aleem from the NOS Event Center
in San Bernardino and broadcast live on ProBoxTV (7:00 pm
EST/4:00 pm PST).
While Martinez (19-0-1 16 KOs) will be hoping to be crowned
Guatemala’s first-ever world champion against Richmond,
Virginia’s Aleem (22-3-3, 14 KOs) in the 12-round main
event, undefeated Joshua Kevin Anton (12-0, 11 KOs) of
Palmdale, California, will take his toughest test to date
against “The Punisher,” Kudratillo Abdukakhorov (22-5, 14
KOs) of Andijan, Uzbekistan in the 10-round super
welterweight co-feature.
Standing a towering 6′ 3″ for his weight division, Joshua
Kevin Anton is a 27-year-old southpaw. Before turning
professional in 2019, Anton was a 2016 US Youth Open
Tournament Champion as an amateur. He was last seen in the
professional ring scoring a seventh-round TKO over capable
veteran Isaias Lucero in September of last year, live on
ProBoxTV.
Formerly ranked IBF #1, WBO #13 and Ring Magazine #8 as a
welterweight, Kudratillo Abdukakhorov has already held the
WBC Silver Welterweight Championship and was once the IBF
mandatory challenger for then unified champion Errol Spence
Jr. 32-year-old Abdukakhorov was a four-time national
Uzbekistani champion as an amateur, finishing with an
impressive record of 170-10.
The undercard’s chief supporting bout will feature a
10-round, super lightweight battle between LA’s Anthony “2
Quick” Cuba (12-1-2, 5 KOs) and Jair “Kaiser” Valtierra
(18-3, 9 KOs) of Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico.
In Future Stars Series action to start the broadcast, super
lightweight Charles “LOLO” Harris Jr (11-1, 7 KOs) of
Rialto, California, will take on Jason “El Gallo” Limon
(11-2-1, 2 KOs) of San Antonio, Texas, over eight rounds;
while undefeated local fan favorite Albert “Chop Chop”
Gonzalez (16-0, 9 KOs) of Riverside, California, will face
Brandon “The Hitter” Chambers (12-4-1, 5 KOs) of Owings
Mill, Maryland in a featherweight eight-rounder.
Also scheduled is a female super flyweight four-rounder
between former USA National Amateur Champion Jocelyn
Camarillo (5-0) of nearby Indio, California and Isis Sio
(1-2) of Dickinson, North Dakota.
And getting the ball rolling will be LA’s undefeated Sam
Contreras (5-0, 2 KOs) going for six straight pro wins
against Texas veteran Cesar “El Matrix” Cantu (3-5-2, 1 KO)
of Weslaco, Texas.
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