Fight Week: Middleweight slugger Jaime Munguia to do battle in Mexico
A critical look at the past week in boxing JAIME MUNGUIA (40-0, 32 KOs) VS. GONZALO CORIA (21-5, 8 KOs) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U51QNdJHIZE When: Saturday, Nov. 19 Time: 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT (main (...)
A critical look at the past week in boxing
JAIME MUNGUIA (40-0, 32 KOs) VS. GONZALO CORIA (21-5, 8 KOs)
- When: Saturday, Nov. 19
- Time: 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT (main event later in show)
- Where: Arena Astros, Guadalajara, Mexico
- TV/Stream: DAZN
- Division: Middleweights (160 pounds)
- At stake: No major titles
- Pound-for-pound ranking: None
- Odds: NA
- Prediction: Munguia KO 6
- Background: Munguia is ranked in the Top 3 by all four major sanctioning bodies, No. 1 by the WBO. That sanctioning body has ordered champion Janibek Alimkhanuly to defend against the unbeaten Mexican slugger, although no deal is in place. Meanwhile, Munguia will face the limited Coria. The 26-year-old former junior middleweight titleholder, a potential star, is 6-0 (5 KOs) as a middleweight. He last fought in June, when he stopped Jimmy Kelly in five rounds. Coria was knocked out in two rounds by Alimkhanuly in 2020. The 25-year-old Argentine is 5-1 since, including victories over journeymen in his last three fights in his home country. He last fought in July, when he narrowly outpointed Emiliano Exequiel Pucheta in Cordoba. His loss during that stretch came against Fiodor Czerkaszyn, a rising 160-pound contender who recently outpointed Nathaniel Gallimore.
ALSO FIGHTING THIS WEEK
FRIDAY
- Louie Lopez vs. Adrian Gutierrez, welterweights, Ontario, California (Thompson Boxing Facebook and YouTube).
SATURDAY
- Hasim Rahman Jr. vs. Vitor Belfort, heavyweights, Austin, Texas (DAZN).
- Liam Davies vs. Ionut Baluta, junior featherweights, Telford, England (ESPN+).
- Dusty Hernandez-Harrison vs. Jose Humberto Corral, cruiserweights, Washington, D.C. (BXNGTV).
- Arsen Goulamirian vs. Aleksei Egorov, cruiserweights (for Goulamirian’s WBA title), France (no U.S. TV).