Demetrius Andrade defends his WBO middleweight world title against Luke Keeler in the main event of a DAZN card at the Meridian at Island Gardens in Miami.
But before that, two other title fights and a battle between two YouTube personalities are set to take place on the undercard.
In the co-main event, YouTubers Jake Paul and AnEsonGib meet in a six-round cruiserweight battle.
Junior lightweight titleholder Tevin Farmer takes on Joseph Diaz Jr. in a must-see 12-round showdown, and unified junior featherweight world titlist Daniel Roman takes on Murodjon Akhmadaliev.
Stay here for live undercard results and analysis.
Daniel Roman vs. Murodjon Akhmadaliev, for Roman’s IBF/WBA junior featherweight title
— Fight in progress…
Espino stops Baccus in third round
Super middleweight prospect Alexis Espino (5-0, 4 KOs) had an easy time disposing of Vincent Baccus (4-2-1, 3 KOs), 35, of Okmulgee, Oklahoma, by knockout in the third round of their scheduled six-rounder.
Espino, 20, of Las Vegas, who is trained by top cornerman Robert Garcia, rocked Baccus with a left hook late in the second round and continued to pound him in the third.
Midway through the third round, he dropped Baccus with a clean left hook. Baccus made it to his feet, but as the fight resumed Espino immediately landed a left-right combination and referee Sam Burgos stepped in to stop it at 1 minute, 49 seconds as Espino flexed in Baccus’ face.
Angulo wins split decision over Sims
In an upset, super middleweight Roamer Alexis Angulo (26-1 22 KOs) edged touted up-and-comer Anthony Sims Jr. (20-1 18 KOs), 24, of Plainfield, Illinois, in a dreadful fight that featured virtually no action or clean punching.
Two judges scored it 96-93 for the more aggressive Angulo and one judge had it 95-94 for Sims, who spent most of the fight moving around the ring and not engaging with Angulo, 35, a Colombia native fighting out of Miami, whose only loss came in June 2018 in a one-sided unanimous decision challenging then-super middleweight world titlist Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez.
Referee Christopher Young docked one point from Angulo in the fifth round for holding. Neither fighter did much of anything, leaving the only drama to take place in Sims’ corner.
After the sixth round Sims’ trainer, James Doolin, told Sims he was down by two points.
“You gotta knock him out,” Doolin told Sims before sending him out for the seventh round.
After the eighth round Doolin told him, “You gotta put him down, baby! That’s all there is to it!”
But Sims continued to dance around and show extreme caution while Angulo plodded forward and could barely land anything as the crowd was virtually silent.
Williams destroys Sanchez
Houston middleweight prospect Austin Williams (5-0, 4 KOs) dominated Donald Sanchez (5-3, 3 KOs), 35, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, en route to a fourth-round knockout victory.
Williams, a 23-year-old southpaw, scored three knockdowns in a fight he dominated from start to finish. He landed numerous clean punches and combinations on a game Sanchez. He nearly dropped Sanchez with a straight left hand to the head in the first round. In the second round he floored him with an overhand left that sent him to his rear end. And in the fourth round Williams sent Sanchez to the mat twice more — first with a straight left hand, and then with a combination to the head and body — after which referee Telis Assimenios waved off the fight at 2 minutes, 51 seconds.
Serrano knocks out Da Silva
Amanda Serrano (38-1-1, 28 KOs), who has won world titles in a women’s record seven weight classes, knocked out Simone Aparecida Da Silva (17-15, 6 KOs), 36, of Brazil, in the third round of a lightweight bout.
Serrano, 31, of Brooklyn, New York, had been training for an MMA fight on Jan. 25 in her native Puerto Rico, but the card was canceled and promoter Lou DiBella was able to get her on this card on six days’ notice. The fight was a tune-up for a probable spring showdown with undisputed women’s lightweight world champion Katie Taylor.
Serrano landed a flurry of punches in the final moments of the second round for a knockdown. In the third round, Serrano unloaded numerous unanswered punches until referee Sam Burgos stopped it at 53 seconds.
Still to come:
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Jake Paul vs. AnEsonGib, 6 rounds, cruiserweights
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Tevin Farmer vs. Joseph Diaz Jr., 12 rounds, for Farmer’s IBF junior lightweight title