There goes September 18.
With Canelo-Plant getting pushed back to November and DAZN’s proposed Mikey Garcia card falling apart, the coveted Mexican Independence Day Weekend fight date was owned lock, stock, and barrel by Showtime’s attractive title unification clash between unbeaten super bantamweight world champions Brandon “Heartbreaker” Figueroa (22-0-1, 17 KOs) and Stephen “Cool Boy Steph” Fulton Jr. (19-0, 8 KOs) from the Park Theater at Park MGM in Las Vegas.
Unfortunately, Figueroa announced on social media that he has contracted COVID and the fight is postponed.
Figueroa wrote: My fight will be postponed till further notice as I tested positive for covid and so did my team/family.
I’ve worked so hard for this fight and was so close to finishing camp strong but unfortunately, there was nothing more I could’ve done. I tried to let it pass and still manage to fight but I wasn’t feeling too well and especially being the last 2 weeks leading to my fight which are the most crucial.
I just want to say thank you to all my fans and supporters, this is a fight I don’t want to let slip and I will come back stronger than ever. I’m gonna recover from this and come back and finish what I came to do and bring that belt back home.
In the meantime, I’m gonna continue and try to maintain myself in fight shape as my next fight date will be announced soon. I got to look after my health but my fighting spirit will never leave. Those of you that know Team Figueroa know that we never back down from a fight.
That’s too bad I thought he was going to shine in this fight. Hope you feel better.
Same. ‘Cool boy Steph’ was going to get a wake up call. I hope figueroa can time this just right to take a break, get well, get his camp back on track and peak for the fight.
If he’s someone with a brain around him – just take amantadine or hydroxychloroquine or ivermecting for a day or two and he’s as good as gold.
what you mean by “feel better”? Can’t you read? He’s not “feeling too well” – doesn’t sound like life threatening situation. Doesn’t take much to recover from seasonal flu. Which is exactly what it is. Let’s finish this stupidity before it finishes us all.
Was he vaccinated and still contracted COVID?
What you mean by “contracted”? You probably mean: tested positive with a useless laboratory amplification thechnique that spits false positives like a firehose. Even a bunch of notorious liars like CDC, is RECALLING this useless “test”. B.s. upon b.s. If he got “jabbed” then he’s more then likely dealing with adverse reaction to graphene oxide in this fake “vaccine”.
bad break with so many fighters contracting. I was looking forward to this one.
More of the same b.s. – show me the proof of the virus purification, show me the em pictures (real, not cgi), show me it cause anything and we’ll talk. Otherwise you’re just one of the stupid. And there are many. Stupidity ko’d this fight – not con-vid 1984
This BS COVID stuff is WAY OUT OF CONTROL! People need to call it for what it is! They ruined everything including boxing with this hoax.