Gabriela Fundora and Gabriela Celeste Alaniz will fight for the undisputed flyweight title
Earlier this week, The Ring’s Jake Donovan brought word that top lightweight23 prospect Floyd Schofield will headline a November 2nd DAZN show against veteran Rene Tellez Giron. More recently, the WBA’s website revealed that Gabriela Fundora will battle Gabriela Celeste Alaniz for the undisputed women’s flyweight title.
The 22-year-old Schofield (17-0, 12 KO), who’d been tabbed to fight Ashton Sylve before Sylve’s brutal upset loss to Lucas Bahdi, got his first taste of Veteran Tactics (tm) in March’s disqualification victory over Esteuri Suero. He gets a more conventional but ostensibly much stiffer test against Giron (20-3, 13 KO). Though “El Bravo” sports losses to standouts Michel Rivera and Giovani Cabrera alongside a narrow majority decision defeat to Jose Matias Romero last year, he’s on a three-fight winning streak and successfully gatekept Karlos Balderas in 2019.
Fundora (14-0, 6 KO) is 2-0 this year after scoring an awkward finish of Christina Cruz in January and subsequently sweeping Daniela Asenjo on the scorecards seven months later. She’d long gunned for an undisputed clash with Marlen Esparza, but that fell by the wayside when Alaniz (15-1, 6 KO) outworked Marlen Esparza in their rematch to claim the three belts Esparza lost on the scales.
Honestly, solid little fight night here. It’ll go head-to-head with Robson Conceicao vs O’Shaquie Foster 2, but if their first fight was anything to go by, this is the more appealing show.
