Telemundo preps Boxeo debut with Meserito – Bomba match
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Gabriel Miramar-Garcia
| 21 February 2018

Telemundo Deportes kicks off the 2018 spring season premiere of Boxeo Telemundo Ford, the No 1 Spanish-language boxing programme in the US, on Friday 24 February.

The event will be carried live from the Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Florida. The season will open with a match featuring Mexico’s Ricardo ‘Meserito’ Rodríguez, 16-5 (5 KOs) and Puerto Rico’s Jonathan ‘Bomba’ Gonzalez, 19-2-1 (12 KOs) battling for the WBO Regional Flyweight Title.

Telemundo and Telemundo Deportes En Vivo app will feature commentators René Giraldo and Edgar López from the venues calling the bouts.

The season opener will have Rodriguez looking to redeem himself from the last performances and extend his undefeated winning streak versus Puerto Rican fighters with a 5-0 record in regional title fights. Rodriguez will face Gonzalez – nicknamed ‘Bomba’ because of his past explosive knockouts – who recently signed with All Star Boxing, Inc after gaining an International Boxing Association's (AIBA) Youth World Championship title and two Puerto Rican championships.

The undercard for the 2018 spring season premiere will feature Olympians Antonio Vargas (5-0-3 KOs) of Kissimmee and Jeyvier Cintron (2-0-1 KO) of Puerto Rico. Vargas represented Team USA in Rio in 2016 and will be coming off a spectacular win over undefeated prospect Jonathan Garza last November. Cintron was the first and only two-time Olympian boxer to have represented Puerto Rico in the amateur ranks.

The Boxeo Telemundo Ford 2018 spring season will be complemented with extensive news and content on TelemundoDeportes.com, including access to the weigh-in and exclusive behind the scenes content. It is the longest-running boxing programme on US Spanish-language television, debuted in 1989. Since then it has showcased more than 50 world champions, including Erik Morales, Felix Tito Trinidad, Wilfredo Vazquez, Daniel Zaragoza, Saúl ‘Canelo’ Álvarez, Oscar ‘Chololo’ Larios and Israel ‘El Magnífico’ Vazquez. It wrapped up 2017 with its highest fourth quarter ever among adults 18-49 with 227,000 and 480,000 total viewers, according to Nielsen.