It’s a night of prospects on Premier Boxing Champions tonight with the main event showcasing Juan Dominguez (19-0, 13 KOs) vs.Yenifel Vicente (27-3-2, 19 KOs) in the main event at 122 pounds.
At 195 pounds in the primary undercard Keith Tapia (16-0, 11 KOs) is expected to put on a show against “opponent” Garrett Wilson (16-9-1, 9 KOs).
Scroll on down for the live blog. Keep reading for some preview information.
Here’s the entire card from ESPN.com
At Trenton, N.J. (PBC on Fox Sports 1/Fox Deportes): Juan Dominguez vs. Yenifel Vicente, 10 rounds, featherweights; Keith Tapia vs. Garrett Wilson, 10 rounds, cruiserweights; Immanuwel Aleem vs. Carlos Galvan, 8 rounds, middleweights; Chad Dawson vs. Shujaa El Amin, 10 rounds, light heavyweights; Denis Douglin vs. Elvin Ayala, 8 rounds, super middleweights; Alex Martin vs. Cameron Kreal, 8 rounds, welterweights; Jordan White vs. Jose Roman, 4 rounds, featherweights; Daniel Pasciolla vs. Corey Morley, 4 rounds, heavyweights; Christopher Brooker vs. Zaccariah Kelly, 6 rounds, super middleweights
Here’s the preview of the main event from PBC’s website.
Juan Dominguez and Yenifel Vicente won’t just be jockeying for position in what is a competitive 126-pound division when they square off December 8 in Trenton, New Jersey (Fox Sports 1, 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT).
They’ll also be fighting for national pride, as both are natives of the Dominican Republic.
While Vicente (27-3-2, 19 KOs) owns the experience edge in this one, Dominguez (19-0, 13 KOs) is the more decorated boxer, having vanquished every opponent put in front of him since turning pro in early 2007.
In his two bouts this year held three months apart, Dominguez took out Carlos Rodriguez (fifth-round TKO) on February 21 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and Mario Macias (second-round TKO) on May 22 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
A 29-year-old who now resides in Brooklyn, New York, Dominguez has stopped eight of his last 11 opponents, including six of the past eight.
Vicente is coming off consecutive stoppage victories himself: a six-round knockout of Reynaldo Villamizar in September 2014 in Colombia and third-round TKO of Manuel de los Reyes Herrera on July 24 in Brooklyn.
Those two victories followed a tough 18-month stretch in which Vicente suffered all three of his losses in the span of five fights after starting his career 23-0-2.
In addition to having 13 more fights under his belt than Dominguez, Vicente—who, like his countryman, is 29 and now living on the East Coast, making his home in Miami—also has fought more than twice as many rounds (141-69).
And here’s the undercard preview from PBC.
It’s becoming very apparent why Keith Tapia chose the nickname “Machine Gun”: Not only does the guy obliterate his opponents, but he does so in rapid-fire fashion.
From late January to mid-September, Tapia laid waste to four opponents, three of whom didn’t make it to the end of the first round. The fourth made it all the way to the eighth and final round … when he was knocked out with 18 seconds remaining in the fight.
A rising star in the 200-pound division, Tapia (16-0, 11 KOs) will look to close out 2015 with his fifth consecutive stoppage victory when he takes on Garrett Wilson (16-9-1, 9 KOs) on December 8 at the Sun National Bank Center in Trenton, New Jersey (Fox Sports 1, 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT).
Tapia’s knockout streak began January 30 when he put Jesse Oltmanns to sleep in the first round at Foxwoods Resort in Connecticut, and that was followed by a with a first-round KO of Jason Smith on April 24 in Chicago. Tapia returned to the ring barely a month later against Leo Pla, this time in Brooklyn, New York, where he earned that late-fight knockout.
After taking the summer off, Tapia came back September 18 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and needed all of 30 seconds to finish off Anthony Caputo Smith.
To put the 25-year-old Puerto Rico resident’s year into mathematical perspective: Each of his four fights this year were scheduled for eight rounds, and yet he was in action for less than 30 total minutes. Since turning pro in November 2011, Tapia has won every fight by stoppage or unanimous decision.
Now it’s Wilson’s turn to try to give Tapia some work.
Like his opponent, Wilson owns a stoppage victory over Caputo Smith this year, scoring a third-round knockout on June 20 in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The 33-year-old lifelong resident of Philadelphia subsequently won twice more in his home state: a sixth-round TKO of Peter Lewison on August 29 and an eight-round unanimous decision over Pedro Martinez on October 30.
Wilson’s three-fight winning streak comes on the heels of a four-fight losing skid that lasted more than two years. Those defeats came against opponents who had a combined record 64-3-1.
In Tapia, the 5-foot-8 Wilson will be facing an opponent who is eight years younger and four inches taller, and possesses a 7½-inch reach advantage (80-72½).
The fight is on Fox Sports 1 at 9 p.m. Watch them with me.
