Being designated a main-event fighter by Roy Jones Jr. is all the promotion India’s Mandeep Jangra needs as he looks to extend his unbeaten start by headlining Jones’ next Legends Casino card, Sept. 19 in Toppenish, Wash.
Super-featherweight Jangra (10-0, 7 KOs) trains under Jones in Pensacola, Fla., and the Hall of Fame fighter’s fondness for the fighter has increased with three consecutive stoppage victories.
On Sept. 19, Jangra meets Nilo Guerrero (9-0, 7 KOs), a Nicaraguan who resides in Coachella, Calif.
The Jones-promoted card includes another fighter promising to Jones in women’s super-lightweight Ijram Kerway (14-3, 5 KOs), a former judo practitioner from her native Tunisia who later immigrated to Germany and is now the mother of two.
Kerwat’s opponent has yet to be finalized.
Tickets range from $40 to $60, and the bout will be streamed at globalsportsstreaming.com.
Lance Pugmire is BoxingScene’s senior U.S. writer and an assistant producer for ProBox TV. Pugmire has covered boxing since the early 2000s, first at the Los Angeles Times and then at The Athletic and USA Today. He won the Boxing Writers’ Association of America’s Nat Fleischer Award in 2022 for career excellence.
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