Top-rated middleweight Yoenli Hernandez has issued a stern warning to his next opponent, Francisco Veron, as well as to the rest of the 160lbs division.<\/p>\n
Already ranked No. 1 by both the WBA and WBO, and No. 2 by the WBC, Hernandez, 10-0 (9 KOs), will meet WBC No. 7 Veron, 17-1-1 (10 KOs), in the 10-round co-main event of the Rolly Romero vs. Teofimo Lopez “Put up or Shut up” PBC Pay-Per-View event on Saturday, August 22, live on DAZN and Prime Video (8 pm ET\/5 pm PT) from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEl Diablo\u201d Hernandez of Camaguey, Cuba, and now living in Providence, Rhode Island, says he\u2019s not happy with some of the pre-fight remarks Veron, of Villa Libertador, Buenos Aires, has been making about him.<\/p>\n
\u201cVer\u00f3n says that I am still a ‘very amateur’ boxer,\u2019\u201d said Hernandez. \u201cHe thinks that fighting me is like fighting an amateur. He’s talking too much. It’s one thing to call the devil, another to see him arrive. I see him saying he’ll put me in situations no one has put me in before, and I hope he’s not one of those talkers who doesn\u2019t back up their words inside the ring.<\/p>\n
The 29-year-old Hernandez adds he finds it hard to believe Veron will be able to summon what it would take to push him in a fight.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m going all out,\u201d he said. \u201cI’m coming to win. And if he [Veron] says he’s going to come forward in the ring, he’ll have to have more drive than me. And for him to have more drive than me, we’ll have to see it to believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hernandez, who scored a shutout unanimous 10-round decision over Kyrone Davis in May 2025, as well as a fourth-round TKO over former world title challenger Terrell Gausha in March of this year, says he\u2019s got more than any other fighter in his division and will soon be crowned the latest amateur prodigy turned world champion from Cuba.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m the best middleweight in the world right now,\u201d said Hernandez. \u201cMy hunger for glory, my desire to be champion and win every title\u2014that\u2019s something I don\u2019t see in the rest of the division. Everyone seems to arrive, get the title, and settle. Not me. I\u2019m coming to get the title, keep it, and fight the best. Lately, nobody in my weight class wants to face the best.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top-rated middleweight Yoenli Hernandez has issued a stern warning to his next opponent, Francisco Veron, as well as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,710,49,48,295480,29194,2673,82,88162,295481],"class_list":["post-849289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxingscene","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-francisco-daniel-veron","tag-rolando-romero","tag-rolly-romero","tag-sports","tag-teofimo-lopez","tag-yoenli-hernandez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849289","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=849289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}