Line them up, and Abdullah Mason is able to knock them out. The Cleveland-born light-weight phenom will now face Mexican southpaw Carlos “Chinito” Ornelas in a 10-round particular function on Saturday, April 5, at Pearl Live performance Theater at Palms On line casino Resort in Las Vegas.
Ornelas replaces Giovanni Cabrera, who withdrew from the bout resulting from harm.
Mason-Ornelas is a part of a loaded card headlined by the 10-round major occasion between rising heavyweights Richard Torrez Jr. and Guido Vianello. Junior welterweight standouts Lindolfo Delgado and Elvis Rodriguez will meet in a high-stakes co-feature scheduled for 10 rounds. Your complete Torrez-Vianello card will stream stay and solely within the U.S. on ESPN+.
Promoted by Prime Rank, tickets are on sale now by way of Ticketmaster.com.
Mason (17-0, 15 KOs), who turns 21 on battle day, enters his first scheduled 10-rounder driving a wave of momentum. He knocked out Manuel Jaimes in 4 rounds in February on the Denys Berinchyk-Keyshawn Davis invoice in New York Metropolis. Mason went 5-0 with 5 early stoppages in 2024 and ascended from a promising prospect to a wunderkind contender.
Ornelas (28-4, 15 KOs) is probably the most battle-tested foe of Mason’s professional profession, a 30-year-old with intensive expertise in opposition to established Mexican opposition. He has received three fights since shedding a 10-round resolution to Rafael Espinoza in January 2021. Ornelas is coming off a December 2023 resolution win over David Moreno Potrero, who entered that bout with a 16-0-1 document.
Featherweight phenom Albert “Chop Chop” Gonzalez and rising junior bantamweight Steven “Child Dynamite” Navarro will likely be featured in separate eight-round undercard bouts on Saturday, April 5, at Pearl Live performance Theater at Palms On line casino Resort in Las Vegas.
Gonzalez faces the sturdy Dana Coolwell, whereas Navarro steps up in opposition to Mexican veteran Juan Esteban Garcia.
Gonzalez-Coolwell and Navarro-Garcia be part of a loaded card headlined by the 10-round heavyweight showdown between Richard Torrez Jr. and Guido Vianello, the Lindolfo Delgado-Elvis Rodriguez junior welterweight battle, and unbeaten light-weight phenom Abdullah Mason in opposition to Giovanni Cabrera.
Promoted by Prime Rank, all the card will stream stay and solely within the U.S. on ESPN+. Tickets can be found now by way of Ticketmaster.com.
Gonzalez (12-0, 7 KOs) is the newest mega-talent from the Robert Garcia Boxing Academy. He scored 5 victories final yr, starting his marketing campaign in April with a first-round stoppage of Joel Alberto Mora. Gonzalez then had three fights in three months, securing dominant TKO victories in every of these bouts. Final December, Gonzalez tallied a shutout eight-round resolution over Gerardo Antonio Perez in Phoenix. Coolwell (13-3, 8 KOs) is a six-year professional coming off a call defeat to Bruce “Shu Shu” Carrington final November on the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson card.
Navarro (5-0, 4 KOs) has been knowledgeable for lower than a yr however will quickly method contender standing at 115 kilos. The U.S. Olympic Workforce Trials finalist is driving a three-fight knockout streak, together with final December’s second-round stoppage of Gabriel Bernardi. A southpaw boxer-puncher, the Garcia battle marks Navarro’s first scheduled eight-rounder. Garcia (14-1-2, 11 KOs) has received three consecutive fights and can make his American debut.
