Eric Gómez confirms that the joint billboard of Golden Boy Promotions with DAZN agreed for August 28 has already been postponed, according to the president of the promoter,.
In statements to The Ring, the undercard that would take place in Indio, California, would have as a main fight a 12-round fight at lightweight between the Venezuelan Jorge Linares and the dominican Javier Fortuna (35-2-1, 24 KO’s).
However, Linares (47-5, 29 KOs) tested positive for COVID-19 and had to be hospitalized two weeks ago in Tokyo, where he was training.
Attempt to rescue billboard, failed
They tried to salvage the date with the Golden Boy prospect, Hector Tanajara 23, from San Antonio, to replace Linares.
The manager and trainer of Tanajara, Robert Garcia, and the promoter of Fortuna, Sampson Lewkowicz, In addition to both fighters, they had accepted the match.
However, they had to wait to finalize the deal until DAZN approved Tanajara as a rival on the card.
According Gómez, DAZN finally approved Tanajara, who was already in reasonable condition, because he had a fight scheduled within the DAZN card between Vergil Ortiz Jr. and Samuel Vargas on July 24.
But the appointment was canceled the morning of the weigh-in. because your opponent, Mercito Gesta, he was sick with a stomach virus, unrelated to coronavirus, and had to retire.
The reasons and the solutions
The Fortuna-Tanajara fight was never closed, even after DAZN approval, because Tanajara signed a new management agreement with Rick Mirigian.
That is why Gomez said that Tanajara’s new proxies insisted that the Texan would need three weeks to be ready for the fight.
“The card is postponed and we are working on alternatives,” he said. Gómez a The Ring, adding that they hope to ride the card this fall.
“It’s not that they didn’t want to fight Fortuna, but that they felt there was no time to be fully prepared for such an important fight,” he said. Mirigian.
“They didn’t want to get to the fight in a hurry, the biggest of his life in terms of the level of opponent and profit. They felt that I needed more time training, “he added.
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