The card will remain, but as a junior welterweight bout as Beltran blew the weigh-in and therefore the title fight was no more.
Commey will retain his title, regardless of the result and Beltran will lose forty percent of his purse with twenty percent to Commey and twenty to the California athletic commission.
It's still a good fight, but a title fight would be preferred and this looks like a good mesh of styles.
Now, even though Commey retains his championship no matter the result, a Beltran win on national television might take some of the edge away for his unification fight later this year against Vasyl Lomachenko, who holds two titles (WBA and WBO) and will be fighting Luke Campbell for the vacant WBC title in late August.
I'm not sure what the solution to fighters missing weight and it seems to be happening more and more frequently.
I still think moving the weigh-ins to the morning of the fight would help or at least penalize the fighter that misses weight by making him weaker for the event.
I understand the concerns for fighter safety, but where's the concern for the fighter that did his job and made weight against the beefed up fighter?
Having an extra 12 hours or so (weigh-ins used to be on fight mornings) could be a help in more fighters making weight and might be worth pursuing.
The co-feature showcases big punching prospect Carlos Adames against Patrick Day.
Adames in a junior middleweight fight,
Adames looked very strong in demolishing Frank Galarza in four rounds in April.
Two middleweight titles are on the line on two platforms on Saturday.
Yes, the ridiculous decision by the WBC to name Canelo Alvarez something called a "franchise champion" which is essentially a reason for Canelo to avoid mandatories and the WBC to still be involved with a cash cow has now turned Jermall Charlo as the WBC champion despite never defeating a top ten middleweight.
I'll deal with the WBC in an upcoming post, but just as the middleweight division was closing in on a unified champion, this decision has brought the PBC into the division with a title and one they will be unlikely to defend against fighters that are promoted by another entity or from their background with the Charlo brothers, rarely against anyone with a pulse.
While I don't expect the commentators to take on a fight their network purchased, I'm hoping someone picks up the gauntlet against the WBC's silliness and how they now have a champion that has never fought a top ten contender in the division
Showtime boxing continues to be the loser in the programming wars as PBC continues to shuffle their secondary cards to the best-produced broadcasts in the game.
This shapes up as possibly the worst card that Showtime has broadcast and unless something unexpected happens, looks to me to be two mismatches and a fight better suited to FS1.
In their main event, new WBC middleweight champion (and that's ridiculous in its own right) Jermall Charlo "defends" against Brandon Adams, who is a natural junior middleweight that just won the "Contender" reality television show.
While I've been critical of Charlo's competition (he holds two or maybe three victories worth noting), Adams is a special case as he enters with three wins in five round fights and a decision win over Shane Mosley Jr.
Adams has never defeated a top ten contender and even if this wasn't originally a world title fight, it still is a sad excuse for one.
Erickson Lubin, the big punching yet soft jawed junior middleweight that was wiped out in one by Jermell Charlo in his only go at a top ten fighter faces Zakaria Attou in a WBC eliminator for the winner of the Tony Harrison-Jermell Charlo rematch.
Lubin, who crushed faded former champion Ishe Smith in three in his last fight, is miles ahead of Attou, who has fought no one that you've ever heard of, has lost six times and in his 29 wins has only seven KO's,
Bleech.
In their opener, Eduardo Ramirez faces Claudio Marrero in a WBA eliminator for a mandatory shot at Leo Santa Cruz.
Marrero, who has been a staple on lower level PBC cards, does have a big punch and can make fun fights, but lost a unanimous decision to Tug Nyambayar in his last fight, while Ramirez lost his only title shot against Lee Selby, but rallied from behind to stop undefeated Bryan De Gracia in the ninth in his last outing.
This will be the most competitive fight of the night, but neither should be the mandatory for a title let alone the often-reluctant Santa Cruz.
DAZN will have the other middleweight champion as talented, but often dull Demetrius Andrade defends against Maciej Sulecki.
Sulecki gave Daniel Jacobs all he wanted in 2018, but in March, he barely held on against Gabriel Rosado, who knocked him down twice in the ninth and banged him around in the tenth.
Sulecki won the deserved decision but showed vulnerability in defeat, so this could be a good chance for Andrade to win impressively.
Former WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker will make his DAZN/Matchroom debut against former world title challenger Alex Leapai.
Parker KO'ed undefeated Alexander Flores in his first fight since his close decision loss in a great fight against Dillian Whyte last summer.
Leapai is durable, but shouldn't be a test for Parker.
In the DAZN opener, Kal Yafai defends his WBA junior bantamweight title against Norberto Jimenez.
On paper, this looks like a squash match with Jimenez's 29-8-4 record, but Jimenez hasn't lost since 2011 and has a draw in Japan in a 2014 challenge of Kohei Kono for this very title.
The undefeated Yafai might be facing someone that is better than his record as he continues to look for a big fight perhaps against WBC champion Juan Francisco Estrada.
In the boxing challenge, I lead Ramon Malpica 152-138.
Junior Welterweights.12 Rds
Richard Commey vs Ray Beltran
Both: Commey Unanimous Decision
Junior Middleweights. 10 Rds
Carlos Adames vs Patrick Day
R.L: Adames KO 7
TRS: Adames KO 4
WBC Middleweight Title 12 Rds
Jermall Charlo vs Brandon Adams
R.L; Charlo KO 4
TRS: Charlo KO 3
Junior Middleweights 12 Rds
Erickson Lubin vs Zakaria Attou
R.L: Lubin KO 6
TRS: Lubin KO 4
Featherweights. 12 Rds
Claudio Marrero vs Eduardo Ramirez
Both: Ramirez Unanimous Decision
WBO Middleweight Title. 12 Rds
Demetrius Andrade vs Maciej Sulecki
R.L: Andrade KO 9
TRS: Andrade Unanimous Decision
Heavyweights,12 Rds
Joseph Parker vs Alex Leapai
Both: Parker Unanimous Decision
WBA Junior Bantamweight Title 12 Rds
Kal Yafai vs Norberto Jimenez
Both: Yafai Unanimous Decision
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