{"id":368748,"date":"2025-12-24T11:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T11:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368748\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T11:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T11:33:10","slug":"israil-madrimov-set-to-return-after-surgeries-losses-to-terence-crawford-and-vergil-ortiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368748\/","title":{"rendered":"Israil Madrimov set to return after surgeries, losses to Terence Crawford and Vergil Ortiz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israil Madrimov<\/a> is ready for his return following a series of injuries and back-to-back losses. <\/p>\n

Madrimov, a former 154-pound titleholder, will take on Luis David Salazar on January 24 in a 10-round junior middleweight matchup, Matchroom Boxing announced Tuesday. <\/p>\n

The bout will take place on the undercard of the Raymond Muratalla-Andy Cruz<\/a> fight at Fontainebleau in Las Vegas, streamed exclusively on DAZN<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Madrimov (10-2-1, 7 KOs) underwent left knee and left shoulder surgery following his unanimous decision defeat against Vergil Ortiz in February. <\/p>\n

The loss was the second in a row for the 30-year-old Uzbek, who dropped his WBA 154-pound title to Terence Crawford in a competitive unanimous decision loss in August 2024. Madrimov won the belt in March of last year when he knocked out Magomed Kurbanov. <\/p>\n

Salazar (20-1, 7 KOs), a 32-year-old from Puerto Rico, has only fought one time outside of the island and it resulted in his only loss, courtesy of an eighth-round knockout against Kevin Johnson.<\/p>\n

Matchroom also announced the bout between light heavyweights Khalil Coe (10-1-1, 8 KOs) and Jesse Hart (31-3, 25 KOs), a fight that The Ring\u2019s Keith Idec first reported last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also set to be featured on the card is 2024 United States Olympian Omari Jones (4-0, 4 KOs) taking on fellow-unbeaten Jerome Baxter (7-0, 3 KOs) in a six-round 154-pound bout. <\/p>\n

Prospects Zaquin Moses (5-0, 3 KOs), Harley Mederos (9-0, 8 KOs), Kaipo Gallegos (10-0-1, 8 KOs) and Ronny Alvarez (5-0, 4 KOs) will also be featured on the card in separate fights. <\/p>\n

Manouk Akopyan is The Ring\u2019s lead writer. Follow him on X and Instagram: @ManoukAkopyan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israil Madrimov is ready for his return following a series of injuries and back-to-back losses. Madrimov, a former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,2989,2983,2831,2988,2981,2984,2985,2986,2987,2982,1920,2993,2992,1913,2976,2977,2990,2978,2975,2994,2772,85,2991,2974,2980,2979],"class_list":["post-368748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-community","tag-boxing-fights","tag-boxing-history","tag-boxing-interviews","tag-boxing-magazine","tag-boxing-photos","tag-boxing-rankings","tag-boxing-results","tag-boxing-schedule","tag-boxing-videos","tag-boxing-news","tag-disqualification","tag-draw","tag-fight","tag-fighter","tag-fighter-news","tag-knockout","tag-latest-boxing-matches","tag-ring","tag-ring-magazine","tag-split-decision","tag-sports","tag-technical-knockout","tag-the-ring","tag-top-fighters","tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}