Friday night will have the most interesting, if not significant, fight of the weekend as Don King returns with a pay-per-view from Hollywood Florida as former multiple-division champion and vastly troubled Adrien Broner attempts yet another ring return- this time against welterweight Blair Cobbs.
Broner hasn't fought in almost two years (two days shy of that mark) since trudging through a unanimous decision win over unknown Bill Hutchinson.
The flashy Cobbs scored his biggest win in his last fight with a unanimous decision over former WBO junior welterweight champion Maurice Hooker and has only one defeat, a ninth-round KO loss to welterweight contender Alexis Rocha.
Broner isn't nearly the fighter he was once and Cobbs should be able to outbox him for a while but can he win on the cards against the bigger draw as Cobbs goes backwards?
Also on Friday from Golden Boy/DAZN, explosive Oscar Collazo defends his WBO minimumweight title against Gerardo Zapata in Verona, New York.
Collazo has seven knockouts in his nine wins and is one of the more exciting fighters you'll see in the smaller divisions.
Zapata has lost only once but fights in the United States for the first time.
Saturday, ESPN+/Top Rank is at the Madison Square Garden Theatre in New York City as unbeaten junior middleweight prospect Xander Zayas takes the next step to contention as he meets former WBO champion Patrick Teixeira in a ten-round main event.
Zayas stopped Jorge Fortas in five rounds last December and fighting a former champion is a logical next step for the twenty-one-year-old.
Teixeira upset current WBC middleweight champion Carlos Adames in 2019 to win the vacant WBO title and lost three straight following the win, losing the title to Brian Castano, losing by DQ to Paul Valenzuela, and losing to current WBA boss Magomed Kurbanov by decision.
Teixeira has won three straight since the losing streak and will be looking to score an upset win that could lead to a potential title chance.
V.S: Zapata Unanimous Decision
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