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Andreas HaleJul 12, 2025, 06:23 PM ET
- Andreas Hale is simply a combat sports newsman astatine ESPN. Andreas covers MMA, boxing and pro wrestling. In Andreas' escaped time, helium plays video games, obsesses implicit euphony and is simply a White Sox and 49ers fan. He is besides a big for Sirius XM's Fight Nation. Before joining ESPN, Andreas was a elder writer astatine DAZN and Sporting News. He started his vocation arsenic a euphony writer for outlets including HipHopDX, The Grammys and Jay-Z's Life+Times. He is besides an NAACP Image Award-nominated filmmaker arsenic a shaper for the animated abbreviated movie "Bridges" successful 2024.
Shakur Stevenson defends his WBC lightweight rubric against William Zepeda connected Saturday astatine Louis Armstrong Stadium successful Queens, New York (DAZN PPV, 5 p.m. ET).
The combat is the main enactment to the main event, a 12-round ace middleweight bout betwixt Edgar Berlanga and Hamzah Sheeraz.
Stevenson (23-0, 11 KOs) is coming disconnected a ninth-round TKO triumph implicit Josh Padley successful February. In that fight, Stevenson dropped Padley 3 times with assemblage shots successful Round 9.
Zepeda (33-0, 27 KOs), the WBC interim titlist, has won back-to-back decisions implicit erstwhile inferior lightweight champion Tevin Farmer -- a divided decision successful November and a majority decision successful March. In his erstwhile 20 fights, Zepeda had 18 KOs.
Berlanga (23-1, 18 KOs) started his vocation with 16 consecutive wins by KO successful the archetypal round but has lone 2 stoppage victories successful his past 8 fights. His lone loss is simply a unanimous determination to Canelo Alvarez past September.
Sheeraz (21-0-1, 17 KOs) is moving up successful value to look Berlanga. He was carrying a 15-fight KO streak earlier his combat against WBC middleweight champ Carlos Adames ended successful a divided draw successful February.
Stay present for results and round-by-round investigation passim the main card.
