07/17/2021 20:01
Clarín.com
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Updated 7/17/2021 20:01
Argentinean Brian Castaño, WBO
super welterweight
champion, will face this Saturday night, in a
unifying
fight, American
Jermell Charlo
, WBA, WBC and IBF monarch of the category.
It is a fight that can establish him as
the first Latin American boxer to hold the four crowns in the same division.
The fight will take place at the AT&T Center in
San Antonio
, Texas, the same scene in which Emanuel Ginobili won the Spurs with four NBA rings and will be televised by cable channels TyC Sports from 8:00 p.m., ESPN from 10:00 a.m. 20 and TyC Sports Play online.
The fight in the city that was made famous by the battle of
El Alamo
between the Texas independentistas and Mexico is the most important for Argentine boxing in recent years.
It could be considered at the same height as Marcos El Chino Maidana's two fights in 2014 with that megastar that was and is Floyd Mayweather.
And it is the most important in many years because Castaño could achieve the four crowns, something that not
even
Canelo Alvarez,
the top boxer of the moment
, has yet achieved
.
Also because of the hierarchy of his rival.
Castaño won
the interim super welterweight title
in November 2016 when he knocked out Puerto Rican
Emanuel De Jesús
in González Catán
in six rounds
and defended it in France against locals
Michel Soro
and
Cedric Vitu
, and as regular champion he equaled in New York with the Cuban
Erislandy Lara
.
He resigned the crown in 2019 and recovered it on February 13 of this year, clearly beating Brazilian
Patrick Teixeira
by points
, at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California.
Castaño prepared extensively for this fight and began a rally in Los Angeles
in late April
, two days after they were married.
Tonight's is the fight he dreamed of since he was little when he watched those of his father and assistant Carlos, a professional boxer in the 90s.
The fighter born in Isidro Casanova 31 years ago, a supporter of Almirante Brown, with 189 amateur fights (only 5 losses and 5 draws) and a professional record of
17 victories
(12 KOs) in as many fights, comes to this fight in magnificent physical and mental conditions.
The referee of the match will be the Panamanian Héctor Afú and the jurors will be the Americans Tim Cheatham (from Nevada) and Steve Weisfeld (from New Jersey), and the Puerto Rican Nelson Vázquez.
Look also
Brian Castaño vs Jermell Charlo: a fight that can remain in the great history of Argentine boxing
Brian Castaño's "American Dream": The Rich History of Argentine Boxers Fighting in the United States