Dan Rafael of espn.com is reporting that the IBF Super Middleweight elimination bout between Adonis Stevenson and Donovan George will headline the ESPN Friday Night Fights season Finale on August 17th most likely in Miami, Oklahoma.
The bout was ticketed to be the co-feature to the August 11th INF Light Heavyweight title bout between champion Tavoris Clous and Jean Pascal until Pascal last week pulled out with a hand injury.
There where rumors that the fight would stay in Showtime as part of a special edition of Sho Box but after some fallouts for the ESPN Finale, the date became available.
Opening the card will be junior middleweight contender Carlos Molina (19-5-2, 6 KOs) against Damian Frias (19-4-1, 10 KOs) in a scheduled 10-rounder.
“We’ve been trying to get Carlos a premium cable fight, but he has to do this to keep busy because none of the top guys are looking to fight him,” said George’s promoter Leon Margules.
“Chicago has a 20-day rule where you can’t file for a permit to put on a boxing show inside 20 days of the event,” Margules said. “I didn’t even know the rule existed until I was filling out the permit form. So it looks like we’re going to Buffalo Run, which is a nice site where they have had a lot of boxing shows.”
“It was able to happen because Yvon is my dear friend and he was very reasonable and fair in terms of negotiations to move this fight,” Margules said.
