A Featherweight doubleheader will highlight a solid card on March 26th in Atlantic City as Yuriorkis Gamboa will defend his title against Jorge Solis and Mikey Garcia will take on Matt Remillard according to Dan Rafael of espn.com
Solis who hold an interim title at 130 pounds will be moving down to face Gamboa
“He’s a bigger guy, but he make 126 comfortably,” Top Rank’s Carl Moretti said. “Regardless of what people want to say, Gamboa is still in the learning stages. Just because Solis isn’t the most well-recognized name, you will see a guy who can hang with Gamboa and a guy who has a chance to beat him.”
This will be the first fight for Remillard under the Top Rank banner where he recently signed
“It’s a very, very solid fight,” Cameron Dunkin, Garcia’s manager, said. “It’s a tough fight. The winner of this fight is really going to come out with big plans to become a champion. I talked to Mikey’s trainer [and brother] Robert [Garcia], and he was fine with the fight. But he said, ‘It’s a really tough fight, but it’s something Mikey has to do if he’s going to be a world champion.’ I agree with him about that.”
Said Moretti: “I think it’s a great opportunity for both guys. I don’t know which guy is going to have his hand raised at the end of the fight, but they are both winners for taking this kind of risk, which is what happens when you match up two undefeated guys. I think regardless of what happens, both of their careers will move forward.”
15rounds.com was informed early this week that a intriguing Featherweight fight involving undefeated prospects Teon Kennedy and Jorge Diaz was confirmed by the espn.com report
