PHOTOS COURTESY OF TOM CASINO/SHOWTIME
Undefeated prospect Luis Ramos Jr. (left) tipped the scales at 134.8 pounds and hard-hitting Raymundo Beltran (right) measured 134.2 pounds during Thursday’s weigh in at Lit Lounge at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, Calif.
Ramos Jr. (20-0, 9 KOs), of Santa Ana, Calif., will face the toughest test of his career in Beltran (25-5, 17 KOs), of North Hollywood, Calif., in a 10-round lightweight main event of the first SHOWTIME® boxing telecast of 2012, TONIGHT, Friday, Jan. 6, on ShoBox: The New Generation, live in Canada only on Super Channel at 11 p.m.
Ramos Jr. and Beltran will face off for the NABA USA Lightweight Title in the main event at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino. Ramos is a stablemate of IBF bantamweight champion and WBC Silver Bantamweight Champion Abner Mares. In Beltran’s last ShoBox appearance he lost a debatable decision to undefeated prospect Sharif Bogere in an all-action fight on May 13, 2011.
Undefeated lightweight prospect Michael Perez (left) weighed in at 134.6 pounds and fellow unbeaten prospect Omar Figueroa (right) measured 134.4 pounds. Perez (15-0-1, 9 KOs), of Newark, N.J., and Figueroa (13-0-1, 10 KOs), of Weslaco, Texas, will square off in a 10-round battle for the WBO Inter-Continental Youth Lightweight Title in the co-feature of an all-lightweight ShoBox.
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