{"id":472227,"date":"2026-03-12T21:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/472227\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T21:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:56:08","slug":"andres-cortes-vs-eridson-garcia-leads-zuffa-boxing-05-on-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/472227\/","title":{"rendered":"Andres Cortes vs Eridson Garcia leads Zuffa Boxing 05 on Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Zuffa Boxing announced during last Sunday\u2019s Jai Opetaia vs Brandon Glanton broadcast that their next installment would land on Easter Sunday, April 5th, with Andres Cortes vs Eridson Garcia in the main event. They\u2019ve now revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingscene.com\/articles\/andres-cortes-eridson-garcia-tops-zuffa-boxing-05-tripleheader-on-easter-sunday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the rest of the lineup<\/a>, which features Mark Magsayo vs Feargal McCrory and Azat Hovhannisyan vs Eduardo Baez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Cortes (24-0, 13 KO), formerly of Top Rank, has spent the last few years hovering around the edge of title contention with solid wins over Xavier Martinez, Abraham Nova, and other capable sub-elites. The Dominican Republic\u2019s Garcia (23-1, 14 KO) may not have the sort of name Cortes was chasing, but he\u2019s far from a gimme; his current six-fight winning streak includes a one-sided decision over William Foster III and, most recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazn.com\/en-US\/news\/boxing\/taiga-imanaga-vs-eridson-garcia-fight-highlights-watch-dazn\/lt0y1b0w3p7h1714n7g0hoe6j\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an upset of undefeated Japanese prospect Taiga Imanaga in Riyadh<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Both men regularly compete at 130, but as Zuffa doesn\u2019t bother with junior\/super divisions, they\u2019ll fight at 135.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Former featherweight titlist Magsayo (28-2, 18 KO) is looking to regain some momentum at 135 after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingscene.com\/articles\/mark-magsayo-moves-on-from-michael-magnesi-will-campaign-at-135\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">planned eliminator against Michael Magnesi fell through<\/a>. McCrory (17-1, 9 KO), returning to lightweight after a brief stint at 130, lost wide to Lamont Roach Jr in his biggest fight to date and hasn\u2019t seen action since beating Keenan Carbajal last March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cCrazy A\u201d Hovhannisyan (22-6, 17 KO) looks to be on the way out after a Fight of the Year knockout loss to Luis Nery and subsequent decision losses to Alan Picasso and Sebastian Hernandez Reyes. All three of those men are highly capable fighters, to be fair, and Baez (25-7-2, 10 KO) historically falls short against solid competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zuffa Boxing announced during last Sunday\u2019s Jai Opetaia vs Brandon Glanton broadcast that their next installment would land&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6102,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-472227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}