Montana Love fulfils a dream on Saturday night time – headlining for the primary time in his hometown of Cleveland as he faces Steve Spark for the WBA Intercontinental Tremendous-Light-weight title on the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse on Saturday night time (November 12) reside worldwide on DAZN.
Love (18-0-1 9 KOs) tops the invoice within the sports activities mad Ohio metropolis and on his second look on the dwelling of NBA giants, the Cleveland Cavaliers, Love meets Australian Spark (15-2 14 KOs) in a pivotal conflict within the 140lb division, with rating positions and World title pictures on the entrance of the hometown man’s thoughts.
“The town is displaying me love and getting behind me,” mentioned Love. “It’s a proud metropolis and we glance after one another and again. It’s a dream come true, with the ability to headline within the largest area in my dwelling. Cleveland means all the things to me. We don’t have a lot, however we stick collectively and get the job achieved.
“The Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse is an electrical place, we’ve had numerous nice athletes come by way of town in that constructing, and now I’m one among them. I’m residing my dream, I went by way of the trials and tribulations to get right here, and what I needed to cope with is a giant a part of what makes me hungry now.
“I promised my mom that I’d take this 100% critically. The very last thing she remembers of me goes to jail and being out and in of jail, so now I’m attempting to proper my wrongs.
“I really feel like I’m made for this second. I’m coming off being co-main on a Canelo card; combating in entrance of a packed home in Las Vegas and I’ve fought at dwelling in entrance of a giant crowd earlier than, so there’s no stress, I’m going to embrace it.
“Steve is a tricky man; he’ll deliver the struggle and it’ll make for an actual spectacle. I need to win this in spectacular style, go for the KO – however we simply need to look stunning and placed on an awesome present.”
Love and Spark conflict on a stacked card in Cleveland, with the co-main bout that includes a Matchroom debut for Richardson Hitchins additionally at Tremendous-Light-weight, the place the Brooklyn expertise faces Yomar Alamo for the IBF North American title.
Raymond Ford continues to catch the attention in his rise within the Featherweight division and defends his WBA Continental Americas title towards Sakaria Lukas and Christian Tapia takes on Cleveland’s Thomas Mattice for the WBA Continental Americas Tremendous-Featherweight title.
Love’s older brother and Olympian Raynell Williams continues his return to boxing towards fellow Ohioan Ryizeemmion Ford, Khalil Coe faces unbeaten Bradley Olmeda, Nikoloz Sekhniashvili meets Ohio’s David Rodriguez and Brazilian Olympic silver medalist and former newbie World champion Beatriz Ferreira steps by way of the ropes for the primary time within the paid ranks towards fellow Brazilian Taynna Cardoso.