In trying to earn the right to face IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev, both Erickson Lubin and Ardreal Holmes made weight ahead of their championship eliminator on Saturday in Florida.<\/p>\n
They will meet at the Silver Spurs Arena in Kissimmee, on ProBox TV, after Holmes came in on the 154lbs limit with Lubin just inside at 153.4lbs.<\/p>\n
Veteran southpaw Lubin<\/a>, still only 29 and fighting in front of his hometown fans, is 26-2 (18 KOs), while Flint, Michigan\u2019s Holmes is 17-0<\/a> (6 KOs), and also left-handed. IBF junior middleweight title eliminator \u2013 12 rounds WBA junior featherweight title \u2013 10 rounds Welterweight \u2013 10 rounds Light heavyweight \u2013 10 rounds Junior middleweight \u2013 10 rounds Junior lightweight \u2013 8 rounds Junior welterweight \u2013 8 rounds Middleweight \u2013 8 rounds Junior middleweight \u2013 8 rounds Middleweight \u2013 8 rounds<\/strong>
They fought in the amateurs, with Lubin winning a decision in his final fight before turning professional. They shared a bad-tempered exchange<\/a> to finally announce the fight in Las Vegas in March.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Ardreal Holmes 154lbs
Erickson Lubin 153.4lbs<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Mayelli Flores Rosquero 122.6lbs
Nazarena Romero 121.8lbs<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Alan Sanchez 146.6lbs
Nicklaus Flaz 147lbs<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Juan Gerardo Osuna 173.8lbs
Najee Lopez 174.4lbs<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Rodolfo Orozco 153.2lbs
Darrelle Valsaint 153.2lbs<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Brandon Valdes 130.8lbs
Dominic Valle 130.6lbs<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Jorge DeJesus 141lbs
LaVonte Earley 141.4lbs<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Rowdy Legend Montgomery 161.8lbs
Herbert Conceicao Sousa 162.8lbs<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Gabriel Escalante 154.2lbs
Ryan Maine 154.8lbs<\/p>\n
Yojanler Martinez 160.2lbs
Jonas Sylvain 158.8lbs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In trying to earn the right to face IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev, both Erickson Lubin and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[41955,1935,4496,4495,41956,41954,41957,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-87935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-ardreal-holmes","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-boxing-news","11":"tag-boxingscene","12":"tag-darrelle-valsaint","13":"tag-erickson-lubin","14":"tag-nicklaus-flaz","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114479101584826524","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87935","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=87935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}