The upcoming battle between Deonte Verde vs Robert Herenius on the 15th of next month brings bad news that an important cushion game has been lost. Puerto Rican heavy gunner Subel Matthias, who was originally scheduled to face Argentine Jeremiah Nicolas Ponce, will compete for the vacant IBF super lightweight title, which originally belonged to Britain's Josh Taylor, but he was reluctant to play against Ponce, the legal challenger, so he gave up the gold belt of the boxer.
At first, the battle between Ponce and Matthias received great attention from the outside world, among which Matthias had a prominent record of 18 wins and 1 loss, 18 KO opponents, the victory knockdown rate was as high as 100%, Ponce's record was also good - 30 wins, 20 KO opponents, but Ponce could not go to the United States due to visa problems, his confrontation with Matthias was temporarily cancelled, when it was staged is unknown.
Although the Ponce vs Matthias battle was cancelled, the good news was that another important padding match was added, when Cuban heavyweight boxing star Frank Sanchez will take the stage for a belated showdown with Puerto Carlos Negron.
The 30-year-old Sanchez is another Cuban hit in his class after "King Kong" Luis Otiz. The strength of Cuban boxers is well known, in the amateur arena can be described as a moment, individual boxers into the professional arena, the same has achieved good results, but Cuba has never made a breakthrough in the heavyweight so far, Otiz has twice challenged the WBC boxing champion Wilde, but both ended in defeat, plus Otiz is 43 years old, so the outside world will turn more attention to Sanchez, thinking that he will be Cuba's rewriting of heavyweight history "star of hope", so some people will call Sanchez "King Kong II".
Today, Sanchez has a professional record of 20 wins, 13 KO opponents, and the negron professional record against him is 25 wins and 3 losses, 20 KO opponents. Negron, who represented Puerto Rico at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, was more of a second-rate boxer, having been knocked down in 2019 by third-rate boxer Burian Howard in 66 seconds and his jaw has been criticized by the outside world. So far, Negron has won 5 consecutive wins, but unfortunately the opponent is not worth mentioning at all, and boxing fans believe that he cannot stop Sanchez at all.
Sanchez was scheduled to play Negron in January this year, but Negron was forced to retire due to a sudden illness, and was replaced by German Christian Hamer to fight Sanchez, and Sanchez eventually won the points against Hamer. At present, Sanchez is not low in the ranking of major boxing organizations, if next month can successfully balance Negron, some boxing fans joke that he should fight Wild, because Wild twice let the old "King Kong" Otiz hate the boxing world, so what will happen to the young and powerful Sanchez against Wilder? It's bound to be very interesting!