'The Lion' hungry to take a bite at 'Maravilla'
British Lion Brian Rose (32-6-1, 8KOs) will face former WBA World Middleweight Champion Sergio Martinez (53-3-2, 30KOs) will return to the ring on September 18 in Madrid.
The co-main event will be the European Flyweight Title fight between Madrid's 'Golden Boy' Angel Moreno (21-4-2, KOs) and former EBU-EU flyweight champion Juan Hinostroza (10-9-1, 5KOs), 36 from Spain.
The Argentinian, who was a Lineal middleweight champion between 2010-2014, retired from boxing after losing his WBC middleweight belt to Miguel Cotto in June 2014. But he has since bounced back with back to back KOs durimg 2020, and now faces Brit Rose in his 59th fight at the advanced age of 46.
Blackpool's Rose, now 36, was back in the ring this year, in March, narrowly defeating former Spanish champion Jose Manuel Lopez Clavero by a single point over six rounds in Spain.
Martinez made his pro debut in 1997, Rose in 2005. Between them, they have almost 40 years of boxing experience.
Rose has shared the ring with the likes of Matt Macklin, Demetrius Andrade, Carson Jones, and his most recent defeat was to rising star Anthony Fowler in August 2019. He was a six-time natuonal amateur champion and won Central Area, English, then British titles at super-welterweight, of which he was the outright holder.
There will be four professional fights that the promoter of the former world champion will present on September 18 in the Valdemoro bullring (Madrid).
The card will be presented by MaravillaBox and Vicious Promotions, with the mediation of Ricky Pow, representative of the WBC.
Pow has been key in the negotiations, with great support of Óscar Zardaín and Kieran Farrell.
In addition, the European Flyweight Championship will be contested by two Spaniards, Ángel Moreno (21-4-2, 6 KO) and Juan Hinostroza (10-9-1, 5 KO), a duel awaited for years.
Also Adrián Torres (2-1, 1 KO) is in his fourth fight as a professional, after a year and a half of inactivity. He will seek to continue on the good path, after a debut in which physical problems in the biceps caused defeat. Finally, Iker Fernández from MaravillaBox will make his professional debut.
The run-up to these four fights will be of great appeal to fans of new technologies, since there have been amateur contests with protagonists from the Internet world. Those will be amateur boxing matches that will be sanctioned as such.
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