Regis Prograis will defend his 140-pound title against Danielito Zorrilla on Saturday night in New Orleans, Prograis’ hometown.
REGISTER PROGRAM (28-1, 24 KOs) vs. DANIELITO ZORRILLA (17-1, 13 KOs)
- Day: Saturday, June 17
- Time: 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT (main event follows)
- Where: Smoothie King Center, New Orleans
- television/stream: DAZN
- Assignment: Junior weight class (140 pounds)
- threatened: Prograis . WBC title
- the odds: Prograis 10-1 favorite (multi-store average)
- Also on the card: Shakhram Giyasov vs Harold Calderon, welterweight; Justis Huni versus Andrew Tabiti, heavyweights; Ramla Ali vs. Julissa Alejandra Guzman, junior featherweight
- Guess: University of Danang Program
- Background: Talented Prograis has lost his 140-pound WBA belt and significant momentum to Josh Taylor majority decision in a title unification in 2019 but recovered to win his last four games, including one 11lame pants-Role Qualifiers of Jose Zepeda to win the vacant WBC belt in November. The 34-year-old from New Orleans can now take a collision course with Teofimo Lopez, who nominated Taylor to win the Scot’s WBO belt on Saturday. last week. Of course, Prograis has to get past the unranked Zorrilla first. The 29-year-old Puerto Rican, an accomplished boxer, delivered quality wins against Ruslan Madiyev and Pablo Cesar Cano in 2021 but then fell conspicuously to undefeated Arnold Barboza Jr. in July last year, losing his momentum. He came back with a knockout match of journeyman Aristides Quintero in the first round in March. Prograis was scheduled to face Liam Paro but Paro withdrew through injury a few weeks ago.
