Former two-weight division owner Luis Nery is expected to face Azat Hovhannisyan in a 12-round featherweight bout on Saturday on DAZN.
LUIS NEYY (33-1, 25 KOs) VS. AZAT HOVHANNISYAN (March 21, 17 KOs)
- Day: Saturday, February 18
- Time: 6 p.m. ET / 3 p.m. PT (main event follows)
- Where: Fox Theatre, Pomona, California
- television/stream: DAZN
- Assignment: Featherweight (126 pounds)
- threatened: No main title
- Pound-for-pound ratings: Do not have
- the odds: ARE NOT
- Also on the card: Shane Mosley Jr. against Mario Lozano, super middleweight
- Guess: Hovhannisyan KO 10
- Background: Young featherweight competitors Nery and Hovhannisyan bring their offensive demeanor and impressive punch power into this main event. Nery, a former two-tournament champion from Mexico, is still rebuilding after a difficult period in 2021 and last year, when he stopped by a bigger, stronger Brandon Figueroa for seven rounds in a 122-pound belt unification and then defeated Carlos Castro with an unconvincing split. He was about to knock out David Carmona in the third round in an intense, 130-pound bout last October. Hovhannisyan, an Armenian living in Los Angeles, has won seven straight games since he lost a unanimous decision to then-122-pound belt holder Rey Vargas in 2018 and has rarely failed to win the tournament. mind for fans. He last fought last April, when he knocked out Dagoberto Aguero in two innings on the Ryan Garcia-Emmanuel Tagoe card.
