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The brawl between former world champion Victor Ortiz and former world challenger John Molina Jr. was canceled Wednesday, but the rest of the show will continue as scheduled Sunday.
The main event was canceled one day after Ortiz went to the Oxnard Police Department (California) and was charged with three sexual assault charges.
He was charged by the Ventura County District Attorney's Office with rape, forced oral copulation and forced digital penetration resulting from an alleged incident in March, the police having said they had investigated for months before issuing a warrant. stop against Ortiz.
Ortiz was released on bail of $ 100,000.
The original co-star, a 10-round featherweight fight between Brandon Figueroa and Oscar Escandon, has been moved to the main box of the Premier Boxing Champions card (Fox Sports 1, 9 pm ET) at the Citizens Business Bank. Arena in Ontario, California.
Molina (30-7, 24 KOs), 35, of Covina, California, was hoping to defeat 31-year-old Ortiz (32-6-2, 25 KOs) of Tarzana, California to advance to another opportunity world title. Now he will just be a spectator Sunday.
"Bad news: the fight was officially canceled, obviously due to uncontrollable circumstances on the part of Team Ortiz.The Molina team was ready," Molina said in a video posted on her Instagram account. "To all my friends, my family and my fans who were ready to see me off Sunday, I will always be at home but I'm sorry, we'll be in the ring very soon. is boxing and sometimes you I do not know the circumstances that will unfold.But we were definitely ready.Thank you for all the love and support and see you very soon in the ring. "
Figueroa (16-0, 11 KOs), 21, of Weslaco, Texas, is the youngest brother of former world lightweight champion Omar Figueroa Jr. He faces the most formidable opponent of his career in Escandon (25 -4, 17 KOs). ), 34, from Colombia, a former Interim Featherweight World Champion who lost two consecutive bouts in the round of 16 against world title holder Gary Russell Jr. in the seventh inning in May 2017 and undefeated KO in the third round Tugstsogt Nyambayar May 26
Joe Joyce (5-0, 5 KOs), 31, won the 2016 Olympic super-weight silver medal in Great Britain. Iago Kiladze (26-3, 18 KOs), 32, from the Republic of Georgia, is fighting in Los Angeles, in a 10-round bout.
The fight will be the first for "Juggernaut" Joyce since he moved his base to the United States to train under Abel Sanchez at his Summit Gym in Big Bear Lake, California, and signed with the Al Haymon adviser. The telecast will also feature heavyweights and the 2016 Nigerian Olympic team Efe Ajagba (6-0, 5 KOs), 24, who face off against Houston in a six-game match against the Mississippi native Nick Jones (7-0, 5 KOs). .
Ajagba's latest appearance proved viral when he faced fellow man Curtis Harper on August 24 in Minneapolis. After the first bell rang to start the fight, Harper stepped out of the ring instead of fighting, which resulted in Ajagba's victory.
Lightweight prospect Karlos Balderas (6-0, 5 KOs), 22, an American Olympic athlete from Santa Maria, California in 2016, was supposed to fight in a six-round bout, but he fell due to a disease.
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