Super bantamweight Jhonatan Romero, lightweight Darley Perez and featherweight Daulis Prescott arrived from Las Vegas at The Long Beach Airport. The undefeated Colombian trio are scheduled to face their opponents this Friday, December 2 at The Chumash Casino located in Santa Ynez Valley.
Former eight-time Colombian National champion, IBF and WBO #14 ranked Jhonatan “Momo” Romero (19-0, 12 KOs) will take on WBO #4, WBA #8, IBF #10 Chris Avalos (19-1, 15 KOs) in a 10-round super bantamweight match up as the co-feature to Anthony Dirrell vs. Renan St. Juste on SHOWTIME’s “ShoBox: The New Generation”.
Returning to Chumash Casino, undefeated Darley Perez (23-0, 18 KOs) will wage war in an eight round lightweight competition against Mexican veteran Fernando Trejo (33-16-6, 19 Kos).
Fighting for the first time in the U.S.A., the daring Daulis Prescott (23-0, 17 KOs) will take on Armenian southpaw Gabriel Tolmajian (11-1-1, 3 Kos) in an eight round featherweight bout.
Romero, Perez and Prescott are co-promoted by Thompson Boxing Promotions and Gary Shaw Productions.
Tickets priced at $85.00, $70.00, $55.00, $45.00 and $35.00 may be purchased by visiting startickets.com. The first live fight begins at 5:30pm and the televised portion begins at 11:30PM ET (tape delayed for the West Coast.)