David Cuellar and Yuliahn Luna Headline ESPN+ Fight Night

Undefeated junior bantamweight star David “El Normal” Cuellar hopes to notch his seventh consecutive knockout in a 10-round important occasion Friday night towards former world title challenger Yader Cardoza at Auditorio Municipal in Torreón, Mexico.
 
On the planet title co-feature, WBC feminine bantamweight champion Yuliahn Luna will make the second protection of her title in a rematch versus Jessica Gonzalez.
 
Cuellar-Cardoza and Luna-Gonzalez headline a loaded night time of fights streaming reside and completely within the U.S. on ESPN+ beginning at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT.
 
Cuellar (21-0, 14 KOs), a 20-year-old from Queretaro, Mexico, is considered one of his nation’s dynamic younger abilities. He has not been taken the gap since September 2019, a run that has included stoppage victories over former world champion Moises Fuentes and longtime contender Ricardo Blandon. He knocked out Blandon in six rounds in February regardless of Blandon lacking weight by greater than 5 kilos. Cardoza (26-17-1, 8 KOs), from Nicaragua, challenged for the WBC mild flyweight world title in 2013 and has fought a lot of this technology’s prime lighter weight abilities. After a two-bout dropping skid, he’s 2-0 in 2022 with a pair of eight-round selections.
 
Luna (23-3-1, 4 KOs) has received seven straight bouts and is trying to avenge one of many losses on her ledger. Gonzalez (8-5-2, 1 KO), from Mexico Metropolis, defeated Luna by 10-round determination in a 2014 non-title affair. For the reason that Luna victory, she has twice challenged for a world title, dropping a 2016 break up determination to Liliana Palmera for the WBA 122-pound strap and a technical determination to longtime WBA 130-pound champion Hyun Mi Choi in 2017. Final September, she picked up the WBC Interim bantamweight title with a break up determination over Tatyana Zrazhevskaya in Russia.
 
In different streaming motion, unbeaten junior bantamweight Luis “Peluchin” Araujo (10-0-2, 7 KOs) will tackle Hector Robles (11-5-2, 3 KOs) in an eight-rounder.

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