By Allan Fox: This Saturday night WBA interim welterweight champion Keith Thurman (22-0, 20 KO’s) will be testing his skills against former IBF lightweight champion Julio Diaz (40-9-1, 29 KO’s) on Showtime at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. Besides the Thurman-Diaz fight, light welterweight contender Lucas Matthysse (34-3, 32 KO’s) will be facing lightweight John Molina (27-3, 22 KO’s) in a 12 round bout for the vacant WBC Continental Americas light welterweight title.
Wrapping up the televised portion of the card will be a fight between WBA lightweight champion Omar Figueroa (22-0-1, 17 KO’s) and #15 WBC fringe contender Jerry Belmontes (19-3, 5 KO’s).