Former junior lightweight world titlist Jason Sosa will face Haskell Lydell Rhodes in the main event of a Top Rank Boxing card Saturday night at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia. The fight will air live on ESPN+ at 10 p.m. ET, with undercard bouts also on ESPN+ starting at 6:30 p.m. ET.
Sosa (22-3-4, 15 KOs) won the WBA 130-pound title with a TKO victory in Round 11 over Javier Fortuna in June 2016. Five months later, he defended the belt with a unanimous-decision victory over Stephen Smith.
In April 2017, Sosa, 31, of Camden, New Jersey, faced Vasiliy Lomachenko and lost the belt in a ninth-round TKO at the MGM National Harbor Resort & Casino in Oxon Hill, Maryland.
Rhodes (27-3-1, 13 KOs) has won four of his past five fights, including a fourth-round KO victory over Demetrius Wilson in September at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center in Duluth, Minnesota.
Rhodes, 31, from Spencer, Oklahoma, but now fighting out of Las Vegas, has fought the majority of his career as a junior welterweight and welterweight.
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ESPN boxing commentators Joe Tessitore and Mark Kriegel, along with former world champions Andre Ward and Timothy Bradley Jr. and reporter Bernardo Osuna, will call the fight from ringside.
Where can I watch the Sosa-Rhodes fight card on Saturday?
The Sosa-Rhodes fight broadcast on ESPN+ will begin at 10 p.m. ET on Saturday. The main card includes Edgar Berlanga vs. Gregory Trenel in an eight-round middleweight battle.
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The undercard begins at 6:30 p.m. ET on ESPN+.
The undercard includes:
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Robeisy Ramirez vs. Adan Gonzalez, four rounds, featherweights
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Paul Kroll vs. Shinard Bunch, six rounds, welterweights
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Donald Smith vs. Raheem Abdullah, six rounds, featherweights
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Sonny Conto vs. Guillermo Del Rio, four rounds, heavyweights
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Jeremy Adorno vs. Fernando Robles, four rounds, junior featherweights