2020 Olympic super heavyweight silver medalist Richard Torrez Jr. (5-0, 5 KOs), who scored a first-round stoppage victory against James Bryant last Friday at Desert Diamond Arena, will return in a six-rounder against Willie Jake Jr. (11-3-2, 3 KOs) on March 25 at Save Mart Center in Fresno, California. Torres-Jake Jr. will open the ESPN tripleheader headlined by the junior welterweight showdown between Jose Ramirez and Richard “RC” Commey and the minimumweight title unification bout between WBA champion Seniesa Estrada and WBC queen Tina Rupprecht.
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A good quarry screening for Torrez to sell the invincible sheet. In my opinion: He must face a little more adversity. Given his amateur experience, it’s a little limited. Currently he will not go far given the potential top 50 boxers .. that’s my opinion and without disrespect!
This guy needs to fight someone in the top 100 at least. If not he’s looking more and more like the second coming of Peter McKneeley.
This is a better opponent. Jake Jr has been in the ring with Jermaine Franklin, Frank Sanchez and Stephen Shaw and holds a victory over Terrell Jamal Woods.
I think they have to be careful with Torrez because he’s an undersized heavyweight who almost surely has no interest in cruiserweight. It wouldn’t happen anytime soon, but I think a good fight to work towards for Torrez might be Gassiev.
espn trying to promote torrez but it will be years before he gets in with good competition