The officers for the principle occasion and co-main occasion within the David Benavidez vs. David Morrell Jnr card set for Saturday in Las Vegas have been finalized.
Thomas Taylor, of California, would be the third man in cost for the Benavidez-Morrell combat, which is able to happen at T-Cell Area. The three judges who will rating the bout are Tim Cheatham and Patricia Morse Jarman, of Nevada, and Steve Weisfeld, of New Jersey.
The officers had been initially advisable by Nevada State Athletic Fee Government Director Jeff Mullen, and had been unanimously authorized by the 4 commissioners who had been in attendance Tuesday on the NSAC month-to-month fee assembly.
Saturday’s combat would be the third straight Benavidez combat that Taylor will referee. He was additionally the third man within the ring for Benavidez’s sixth-round stoppage of Demetrius Andrade in November of 2023 and his unanimous resolution win final June over Oleksandr Gvozdyk – each of which happened in Las Vegas. Saturday marks the primary time Taylor will officiate a Morrell combat.
The 12-round gentle heavyweight combat, which is able to headline a Premier Boxing Champions pay-per-view card on Prime Video, can have main world title implications. The winner will grow to be necessary challenger for the WBC title, which will likely be among the many belts at stake on February 22 when undisputed champion Artur Beterbiev meets Dmitry Bivol in a rematch in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Benavidez, 29-0 (24 KOs), is from Phoenix, whereas Morrell, 11-0 (9 KOs), is is from Santa Clara, Cuba, however now makes his residence in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Additionally on the agenda had been the officers for the rematch between Brandon Figueroa, 25-1-1 (19 KOs), and Stephen Fulton, 22-1 (8 KOs).
Harvey Dock, of New Jersey, was chosen because the referee, whereas New York’s Max Deluca, Oklahoma’s David Sutherland and California’s Zachary Younger will rating the combat. Dock, a former Golden Gloves champion with a 1-0 professional file, has by no means refereed a combat for both Figueroa or Fulton.
The combat, which would be the first protection of Figueroa’s WBC featherweight title, will likely be a rematch of their shut junior featherweight unification bout in 2021, which Fulton gained by majority resolution.
Ryan Songalia is a reporter and editor for BoxingScene.com and has written for ESPN, the New York Each day Information, Rappler, The Guardian, Vice and The Ring journal. He holds a Grasp’s diploma in Journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate Faculty of Journalism and is a member of the Boxing Writers Affiliation of America. He could be reached at ryansongalia@gmail.com or on Twitter at @ryansongalia.
