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Big Saturday: NM boxers in California, Tennessee, Germany
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Bosque Farms’ Katherine Lindenmuth, “La Güera Pistolera,” is in California to fight on a card that marks a momentous shift in how Americans watch professional boxing.
Last Saturday, Xander Zayas defeated Jorge Garcia Perez to win the WBO super welterweight title on a Top Rank, Inc., card at Madison Square Garden.
It was Top Rank’s last show of its eight-year partnership with ESPN, and, at least for the foreseeable future, the last professional boxing card available on network, basic cable or premier cable TV.
Now, it’s all about the stream.
Trust us; Top Rank will survive. Look for future TR cards on at least one, probably more than one, premier streaming service. That’s being negotiated as we speak.
Yet, as of this writing, Top Rank has no more cards scheduled for 2025 other than a co-promotion in November in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Meanwhile, Top Rank has fighters who need to keep busy.
Accordingly, TR featherweight Alberto Gonzalez (13-0, seven KOs) is fighting the main event on Saturday’s card at the Soboba Resort & Casino in San Jacinto, California — a card on which Lindenmuth (7-4, three KOs) is scheduled to face former national amateur champion Brook Sibrian (7-2, three KOs) in an eight-round semi-main event.
The card is being staged, not by Top Rank but by California promoter Dave Trujillo (House of Pain Promotions).
Two more Top Rank fighters, welterweight Art Barrera Jr. (9-0, seven KOs) and flyweight Perla Bazaldua (2-0, one KO) are on Saturday’s card.
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The card is being streamed, not by DAZN or Netflix or Amazon Prime, but on a pay-per-view basis ($19.99, 7 p.m.) by lesser-known service bxngtv.com.
What could this mean for Lindenmuth? Having four losses on her record and having turned 36 on Wednesday, she’s not a likely candidate for a Top Rank contract — well, unless TR likes a compelling back story; Lindenmuth is the widowed mother of three sons and has a Master’s degree in criminal justice.
Still, should she defeat Sibrian, or even show well in defeat, she’ll do so with some highly influential eyes on her — eyes that that hadn’t seen her before.
Who knows? More and greater opportunities could follow.
BUSY DAY: Saturday’s New Mexico boxing schedule begins (or began, if you’re reading this in the Journal’s print edition) with Las Cruces’ Joscelyn Olayo-Muñoz’s 3 a.m. MT championship bout against Italy’s Amelia Sula at the Brandenburg Cup international youth (U19) tournament in Frankfurt, Germany.
The bout is (or was) to be streamed on the German site sportdeutschland.tv.
In Nashville, Albuquerque’s Yoruba Moreu Jr. weighed in on Friday at 121 pounds for his pro debut on Saturday against professional loser Ndira Spearman (1-16) of Levergne, Tennessee. Spearman weighed in 121.8 pounds.
The Nashville card, promoted by boxing Hall of Famer Christy Martin, is scheduled to be streamed on millions.co, starting at 5 p.m.
In San Jacinto, Lindenmuth weighed in at 104.2 pounds for her scheduled eight-rounder against Sibrian, who weighed in 105 even.
