Milwaukee native and former UFC champ Anthony Pettis to box Roy Jones Jr. at Fiserv Forum

MILWAUKEE — Anthony Pettis, former UFC light-weight champion and Milwaukee native, will field towards boxing icon Roy Jones Jr. in Milwaukee on April 1.

The Jorge Masvidal-produced occasion might be at Fiserv Discussion board at 6 p.m.

Ticket gross sales will open to most people on Ticketmaster on Feb. 17 at midday.

Masvidal introduced the combat card for Gamebred Boxing 4 Monday on “The MMA Hour.”

Different matches on the combat card embody Jose Aldo vs. Jeremy Stephens; Vitor Belfort vs. Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza; Paul Daley vs. Anthony Taylor.; and Pearl Gonzalez vs. Gina Mazany.

Pettis is a multi-division champion together with featherweight, light-weight, and welterweight within the UFC. Pettis was additionally the ultimate World Excessive Cagefighting (WEC) Light-weight Champion earlier than being merged into the UFC.

Pettis grew up on the south facet of Milwaukee and attended Dominican Excessive Faculty. He made his skilled MMA debut in 2007 and did very effectively. He then debuted with the WEC in June 2009. Pettis shifted to UFC in 2010 when WEC merged with UFC.

Jones Jr. is a multi-division boxing world champion. He holds titles in middleweight, tremendous middleweight, gentle heavyweight, and heavyweight. He’s additionally an Olympic silver medalist.

The matchup is bound to be fascinating as Pettis has the benefit in age, nevertheless, Jones has extra expertise and is taken into account by many as top-of-the-line boxers of all time.

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