Unbeaten heavyweight Jared “The Real Big Baby” Anderson (13-0, 13 KOs) will face fellow unbeaten George Arias (18-0, 7 KOs) in a 10-rounder Saturday, April 8, at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. Anderson-Arias will be the co-feature to the WBC lightweight title eliminator between Shakur Stevenson and Shuichiro Yoshino. Anderson said, “This is the kind of fight I’ve been waiting for, a big fight between two undefeated heavyweights. I’m excited to once again be fighting on the same card as Shakur Stevenson. Don’t miss this fight. April 8 is going to a special night in Newark.”
U.S. Olympic silver medalist Keyshawn Davis (7-0, 5 KOs) will face his stiffest challenge in the 10-round lightweight televised opener against former world title challenger Anthony Yigit (26-2-1, 10 KOs).
Stevenson-Yoshino, Anderson-Arias, and Davis-Yigit will be broadcast live on ESPN.
Props to both heavyweights for putting there undefeated records on the line.
Soft puncher with no real wins on his ledger. Should be another good showcase for Anderson
Thank you, ESPN. I’m tired of PPV.
Anderson is a future champ. The kid has skills.
Arias is on the small side (the WBC has him ranked 5th at bridgerweight), but he can fight and, at least on paper, he should be Anderson’s best opponent.
Jared Anderson is the most exciting young heavyweight prospect out there up against his toughest assignment.
Whew…thank goodness…real boxing…good card in Brick City.
I don’t like this heavyweight match at all. Arias is a bridgerweight. Not a true heavyweight. Anderson is going to DESTROY him inside of 3 rounds. If this makes it out of the 2nd, it will be a miracle.
Anderson should be ashamed of himself for doing this. Fight real heavyweights. Guys who can challenge him.
Arias needs to fight other bridgerweights. Arias has NO chance of completing this fight, let alone winning it.
Nobody cares about made up bridgerweight division. They are heavyweights and should be fighting other heavyweights.
If Andy Cruz was not a slave in Cuba, we would be speaking about him. Not Davis.
Davis is being fed soft in this match. Davis wins easily.
Good fight for Anderson
Good card!!
Garbage fight. Only reason he was picked to fight Andersen is because of his undefeated record. It makes the fight look good. I’m reality, the guy is much smaller and doesn’t have a punch.
never heard of George Arias so does his undefeated record mean anything? TBD
What are you guys talking about? Geoge Arias competes in the heavyweight division. The nature of the division is that there are going to be big weight discrepencies, always have been, but if you compare there weights for each of their fights, Arias has consistently weighed in at the 230-240lb range, which is what Anderson fights at. True, Arias weighed in at 219 in his last fight, but that was by far an excpetion for him.