Anthony Dirrell 167.4 and Davis 167.6 in Los Angeles

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The two-time former world champion, Anthony Dirrell, will face Kyrone Davis, in a super middleweight elimination duel of the World Boxing Council (WBC), which will be the star of this Saturday, February 27, at the “Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall ”, from Los Angeles, California.

The fight, which is part of the Premier Boxing Champions series, will be televised on FOX.

Both fighters participated in the official weigh-in, registering Anthony Dirrell 167.4 pounds and Kyrone Davis 167.6 pounds.

Anthony Dirrell (33-2-1, 24 KOs), a two-time WBC 168-pound world champion, is a battle-proven veteran who never backs down from anyone in the ring. Dirrell, 36, won the WBC title for the first time with a unanimous decision over Sakio Bika in 2014. The Flint, Michigan native lost the title the following year to Badou Jack by majority decision.

He collected six straight wins after that loss to get back into position and fight for the championship again. He won the title with a technical decision win over Avni Yildirim in 2019. Dirrell is the younger brother of Andre Dirrell, who won a bronze medal as a member of the US Olympic boxing team in 2004. He is coming off a very loss. hard fought. former champion David Benavidez.

Kyrone Davis (15-2, 6 KO) will face the toughest challenge of his career when he takes on the more experienced Dirrell. Davis, 26, of Monmouth, NJ, will move up to super middleweight for this game.

His last fight was a TKO victory over Antonio Todd at middleweight in January 2020. His only two losses were against Junior Castillo and Patrick Day in 2018. His most notable victory thus far was against Marcos Hernández in 2017. Hernández was undefeated at the time.

In the same show, welterweight Jesús Ramos will battle Jesús Bojorquez in 10 rounds.

Jesus Ramos (14-0, 13 KOs), the nephew of welterweight contender Abel Ramos, steadily increased the toughness of the competition in 2020. The 19-year-old from Casa Grande, Arizona has notched up four consecutive knockout victories after his only professional fight. That has gone the distance, which came in June 2019 by unanimous decision over Kevin Shacks.

In his last fight, Ramos scored a fourth round stoppage against Naim Nelson in December 2020 on FOX.

Jesús Emilio Bojorquez (24-2, 18 KOs) has scored four consecutive wins since losing to Abner López. All four victories came through a stoppage.

33-year-old Bojorquez from Sonora, Mexico will fight for the first time in the United States. He is coming off a fourth round TKO victory over José Luis Araiza.

WEIGHING FROM LOS ANGELES

Anthony Dirrell 167.4 vs. Kyrone Davis 167.6

Jesús Ramos 146.8 vs. Jesus Emilio Bojórquez 146.2

Vito Mielnicki Jr. 146.4 vs. Nóe López 146

Michel Rivera 144.4 vs. Anthony Mercado 146

Anthony Cuba 134.2 vs. Diego Elizondo 135

Romuel Cruz 122.4 vs. Luis Valdes 122.4

José Valenzuela 134.8 vs. Clay Burns 134.8

Leon Lawson 152.2 vs. Ramal Amanov 153.8

Arnold Alejandro 131.2 vs. Jeremy Abram 129.4

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