Officials for the WBA Interim title fight this Saturday in Las Vegas

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Officials for the WBA Interim title fight this Saturday in Las Vegas
Thurman and Lopez square off this Saturday in New York. Photo: Courtesy

Officials for the WBA Interim title fight this Saturday in Las Vegas

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Officials for the WBA Interim title fight this Saturday in Las Vegas
Thurman and Lopez square off this Saturday in New York. Photo: Courtesy

Keith Thurman WBA Welterweight Interim Champion
Keith Thurman WBA Welterweight Interim Champion

Vic Drackulich and Russel Mora will be the referees of the World Boxing Association interim title fights to be disputed this Saturday in Las Vegas.

Drackulich will referee the 147-lbs welterweight interim title defense between American Keith Thurman against the Italian Leonard Bundu at the MGM Grand Hotel.

Adelaide Byrd, Ricardo Ocacio and Patricia Jarman will be in charge of the scorecards for the third Thurman title defense whose record is 23-0, 21 KO. Bundu has 31-0-2, 11 KO.

The supervisor will be the Panamanian Julio Thyme.

The second interim title fight will be between Mauricio Herrera (21-4, 7 KO) who defends his WBA super lightweight 140-pound for the first time, against José Benavidez (21-0, 15 KO).

The referee will be Mora, while the judges will be Max de Luca, Dave Moretti and EriK Cheek. The supervisor of the fight, at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, will be Matt Podgorski.


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