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Preview: Natasha Jonas-Lauren Price, Arnold Khegai-Joet Gonzalez
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Preview: Natasha Jonas-Lauren Price, Arnold Khegai-Joet Gonzalez

On Thursday, Golden Boy Promotions returns on DAZN at 6 PM PST with bantamweight "Gucci" Manny Flores taking on Jorge Leyva. Other interesting bouts, flyweight Enkhmandakh Kharkhuu will fight Mario Hernandez at bantamweight, junior middleweight Grant Flores returns, Federico Pacheco Jr makes his Golden Boy Promotions debut and Cayden Griffiths makes a quick return. This is a good developmental card with Flores, a local draw in a quality regional main event.

On Friday, a women's welterweight unification bout will happen as Natasha Jonas faces Lauren Price with the WBC, WBA and IBF titles on the line. The fight is on Sky Sports – I am unsure if you can watch this fight live in the United States. The undercard features the return of WBC women's lightweight Caroline Dubois, a 50-50 fight between Olympic featherweight Karriss Artingstall vs. Raven Chapman, and 2024 middleweight Olympian Cindy Ngamba will be on the card. Another name to watch for Francesca Hennessy, who a lot of smart people believe has a promising future.

On Friday, welterweight Harlem Eubank will fight Tyrone McKenna, and
Michael Conlan returns on domestic card in the U.K.

On Friday, MVP returns with a card in Canada on DAZN at 5:30 PM PST. The main event is lightweight Lucas Bahdi facing Ryan Racaza. The fight is Bahdi's first time facing a southpaw as a pro. Notable undercard bouts WBA junior flyweight titleholder Sara Bailey faces Cristina Navarro, and 2024 middleweight Olympian Tamm Thibeault vs. Sonya Dreiling. Thibeault and Ngamba fought in 2024 Olympics and that could be a fight in the future.

On Friday, Albert Batyrgaziev will face Cruz Romero in Moscow. Why does this matter? Batyrgaziev holds the WBA interim junior lightweight which could make him a mandatory for Roach Jr.

On Saturday, ProBox TV returns at 3:30 PM PST with a great main event per usual, featherweight Arnold Khegai, who is rated No.2 by the WBO will face Joet Gonzalez in a crossroads bout and a good L.A. fight. Welterweight Jesus Saracho will take on Luis Lopez in the co-feature.

On Saturday, For Northern California fight fans, we have two shows this weekend as Uppercut Promotions will be putting on a card headlined by Blake McKernan vs. Shawn Miller, and in Stockton, California Lorenzo Powell will return to action. Neither card will have streaming options.

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