ProBox announced yesterday that super featherweight contenders Muhammadkhuja Yaqubov and William Foster III will headline an August 15th card at their Events Center in Plant City, Florida.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a Friday, for the record.<\/p>\n
Tajikistan\u2019s Yaqubov (22-1, 12 KO) lost wide to O\u2019Shaquie Foster in a 2022 WBC eliminator, but has since won four straight over marginal competition. Foster (19-2, 11 KO), who narrowly fell to Henry Lebron in a 2023 clash of unbeatens before suffering a rout two fights later at the hands of unheralded Eridson Garcia, enters on a two-fight winning streak.<\/p>\n
One of those saw him hand Jayson Velez his ninth consecutive defeat. Eugh.<\/p>\n
The show also sees ShoBox veterans Starling Castillo (19-1-1, 13 KO) and Shinard Bunch (21-2-1, 17 KO) square off at super lightweight. This ends a nearly seventeen-month layoff for Castillo and a two-year layoff for Bunch.<\/p>\n
Couple of solid B-level scraps here, perfect for a Friday night appetizer ahead of the following day\u2019s Riyadh Season show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ProBox announced yesterday that super featherweight contenders Muhammadkhuja Yaqubov and William Foster III will headline an August 15th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[78925,10520,1935,4496,102611,163,10522,102612,26584,10521,102609,102613,17947,79,16,15,6691,7712,102610],"class_list":{"0":"post-270413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-august","9":"tag-bad","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-boxing-news","12":"tag-foster","13":"tag-front-page","14":"tag-hook","15":"tag-iii","16":"tag-leads","17":"tag-left","18":"tag-muhammadkhuja","19":"tag-probox","20":"tag-show","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom","24":"tag-vs","25":"tag-william","26":"tag-yaqubov"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114870879038192751","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}