EL PASO, Texas (Sept. 15, 2018) – They have talked the communicate. The time to throw down is close to.
For Miguel “El Alacrán” Berchelt and Miguel “Mickey” Roman, this is the fight they demanded, a throwback all-Mexican conflict that promises to deliver at the pre-combat bluster.
Berchelt will make the fourth defense of his WBC extraordinary featherweight title towards Roman on Saturday, Nov. 3 on the Don Haskins Center on the campus of The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). Berchelt-Roman and a soon-to-be introduced co-function will circulation stay within the United States starting at 9:30 p.M. ET on ESPN
Promoted via Top Rank, in affiliation with Zanfer Promotions and Promociones del Pueblo, tickets are on sale now. Priced at $250, $150, $seventy five, $forty five, and $35, tickets may be purchased on line at Ticketmaster.Com, all Ticketmaster shops, and in character on the UTEP Ticket Center.
“Top Rank may be very pleased for you to gift a surely outstanding championship fight among two Mexican warriors in the great city of El Paso, which has hosted so many extensive boxing activities within the past,” said Top Rank CEO Bob Arum.
“I actually have wanted this fight for a totally long time,” Berchelt said. “Roman has been speaking loads. I can’t wait to be inside the ring with him. I am satisfied to combat in El Paso, which is an appropriate vicinity for a combat like this. I will show all of the fanatics that I am on my way to turning into one of the incredible Mexican champions.”
“Berchelt is in for a huge wonder,” Roman stated. “He’s by no means seen a Mexican warrior like me earlier than. The fanatics are going to be on my aspect, and I realize I will be the new WBC champion.”
Berchelt (34-1, 30 KOs), a Cancun native who now resides in Mérida, is an eight-year pro who is equally adept at boxing and brawling. The simplest hiccup on his record came about on March 15, 2014, when a left hook from Luis Eduardo Florez put Berchelt down inside the establishing spherical. While many observers felt the stoppage become a bit premature, Berchelt rebounded to win his subsequent nine bouts by using knockout, along with winning a WBO interim one hundred thirty-pound title, before tough Francisco Vargas for the WBC super featherweight name on Jan. 28, 2017. In one of the 12 months’s pleasant fights, Berchelt landed greater than four hundred punches, breaking down Vargas en path to an eleventh-spherical knockout victory. In his first identify protection, he outboxed Takashi Miura to attain a huge unanimous choice win. Berchelt is 2-0 in 2018, maximum recently knocking out former world champion Jonathan Barros within the 1/3 spherical in a fight that streamed on ESPN+.