TUCSON – It will sound like the good old days in this southern Arizona city. An opening bell will be back Saturday night at Casino Del Sol.
After a busy couple of years with Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions, this traditional boxing stop has had a quiet 2018.
Until now.
Thanks to Michelle Rosado of Raging Babe Promotions, the fight game will ride back into town with fighters whose roots are in the Arizona. Eight of the fighters in five bouts on the scheduled card (7 p.m. PT) are from Tucson, including a main event featuring junior-welterweights Alfonso Olvera (10-4-1, 4 KOs) against Wilberth Lopez (21-9, 15 KOs).
Both have world-class experience, Olvera going the distance with Ivan Baranchyk and Lopez going to the scorecards in a 2014 loss to Isaac Dogboe.
The undercard includes Tucson lightweight Jensen Ramirez (5-2-3, 1 KO) versus Jesus Arevalo (0-1) of Sierra Vista, Goodyear flyweight Breenan Macias (2-0, 1 KOs) versus Mike Martinez (0-1) of Tucson, Tucson junior-middleweight Nicholas Rhoads (2-0, 2 KOs) versus Judas Estrada (1-0, 1 KO) of Tucson and Tucson junior-welterweight Christopher Gonzalez (2-0) versus Manny Guajardo (2-0) of Tucson.
