Richardson Hitchins to face Argentine Gustavo Daniel Lemos

FIGHT WEEK

Richardson Hitchins is scheduled to face fellow unbeaten 140-pound contender Gustavo Daniel Lemos on Saturday in Las Vegas.

RICHARDSON HITCHINS (17-0, 7 KOs)VS. GUSTAVO DANIEL LEMOS (29-0, 19 KOs)

Date: Saturday, April 6
Time: 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT (important occasion later in present)
The place: Fontainebleau Las Vegas, Las Vegas
TV/Stream: DAZN
Division: Junior welterweight (140 kilos)
At stake: No main titles
Pound-for-pound: None
Odds: Hitchins 5-1 favourite (common of a number of shops)
Significance (as much as 5 stars): ***
Additionally on the cardboard: Diego Pacheco vs. Shawn McCalman, tremendous middleweights; Skye Nicolson vs. Sarah Mahfoud, featherweights (for vacant WBC title); Galal Yafai vs. Agustin Mauro Gauto, flyweights; Marc Castro vs. Abraham Montoya, junior lightweights
Background: Hitchins is a 2016 U.S. Olympian and a rising younger 140-pound contender from New York Metropolis. The 26-year-old, a superb technician, is coming off the largest victory of his profession: a near-shutout choice over former three-time world title challenger Jose Zepeda on Sept. 23. Hitchins is ranked within the High 3 in three of the 4 main sanctioning our bodies, No. 2 by the WBC. Lemos is finest identified for his fifth-round knockout of one-time 126-pound titleholder Lee Selby at 135 kilos in March 2022, which despatched the growing old Welshman into retirement. The IBF’s No. 7-ranked 140-pounder is also on a run of 10 consecutive knockouts. Nevertheless, he has confronted nobody else of notice. And the 28-year-old resident of Buenos Aires has by no means fought outdoors of his native nation, which makes it tough to gauge the risk to Hitchins he’ll pose on Saturday.

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THURSDAY

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FRIDAY

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SATURDAY

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