Junior lightweight world titlist Miguel Berchelt and mandatory challenger Miguel “Mickey” Roman will square off Nov. 3 in what figures to be an all-action fight between Mexican countrymen.
The location of the fight, which will headline a Top Rank Boxing on ESPN+ card, has not been set yet, but Top Rank officials told ESPN on Friday that the fight has been agreed to and will take place in either Los Angeles or a venue to be determined in Texas.
Berchelt (34-1, 30 KOs), 26, will be making the fourth defense of the 130-pound belt he won from countryman Francisco Vargas by a cut-induced, 11th-round knockout in January 2017. Berchelt is coming off a third-round knockout of former featherweight titlist Jonathan Victor Barros on June 23.
On that same date, but on a different card, Roman (60-12, 47 KOs), 32, won his fourth fight in a row, as he knocked out Michel Marcano in the second round in his final tune-up bout for the title shot.
Roman has had two previous world title opportunities, but he lost both: a unanimous decision to Barros challenging for a featherweight belt in 2011 and a fifth-round knockout loss to Antonio DeMarco in an attempt to win a light title in 2012.
Berchelt said he is anxious to fight Roman, with whom he has traded barbs.
“I have never shied away from him,” Berchelt said. “I fulfilled my previous commitments as a champion. We will simply face him and put Roman in his reality, back to where he should to be.
“Roman has spoken a lot, and it is time to teach him a lesson of humility and respect. We are going to knock him out, to tear off his head. I only hope to meet in the ring, and there he will feel my power.”