On Friday, September 11, ProBoxTV is back, featuring Giovani Santillan returning to his hometown of San Diego, California, to take on former WBA junior-middleweight champion Abass Baraou of Berlin, Germany, in a crossroads 10-round main event. Santillan, 35-1 (18 KOs), the WBO No. 8-ranked welterweight, and IBF No. 12-ranked junior-middleweight contender, and Baraou, 17-2 (9 KOs), the WBA No. 4-, WBO No. 6- and WBC No. 12-ranked junior-middleweight contender, will headline a live broadcast (8:00 pm ET\/5:00 pm PT) from Frontwave Arena in Oceanside, California.<\/p>\n
Southpaw Santillan will be looking for the fourth victory of his comeback since losing by knockout to Brian Norman Jnr for the interim WBO welterweight title in May 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Baraou will be making his first ring appearance since losing his 154lbs title by split decision in a WBO\/WBA unification battle against Xander Zayas in late January this year.<\/p>\n
In the co-main event, former IBF featherweight world champion Luis Alberto Lopez, 32-3 (19 KOs) of Baja California, Mexico, will make his ProBox Promotions debut against Daniel Lugo, 28-4-1 (19 KOs), of Sonora, Mexico.<\/p>\n
WBO No. 6- and IBF No. 11-ranked \u201cVenado\u201d Lopez will be fighting for the third time since losing his IBF title to fellow ProBox Promotions stablemate Angelo Leo in August 2024.<\/p>\n
In the chief supporting bout, undefeated junior-lightweights Dominic Valle, 13-0 (7 KOs), of Lutz, Florida, and Francois Scarboro Jnr, 14-0 (9 KOs), of Cheverly, Maryland, will collide with someone\u2019s 0 on the line in a battle between rising prospects.<\/p>\n
ProBoxTV says more fights will be announced shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Friday, September 11, ProBoxTV is back, featuring Giovani Santillan returning to his hometown of San Diego, California,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[54538,703,711,710,49,48,230505,183175,67964,262770,82],"class_list":["post-832956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-abass-baraou","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daniel-lugo","tag-giovani-santillan","tag-luis-alberto-lopez","tag-proboxtv","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}