Source: Ex-champ Prograis on Paul-Askren card

Gentle junior welterweight champion Regis Prograis shall be featured on a particular boxing card.

Prograis will face Ivan Redkach on the undercard of the Jake Paul-Ben Askren tournament on April 17 that shall be produced by Triller, a source confirmed to ESPN on Saturday. The most up-to-date pattern comes on the heels of Triller’s winning $6 million bellow to promote Teofimo Lopez’s IBF welterweight title protection towards George Kambosos.

Prograis (25-1, 21 KOs) gained the WBA’s 140-pound belt in April 2019 when he stopped Kiryl Relikh. He suffered his first profession loss six months later when he dropped a majority diagram to Josh Taylor in the finale of a World Boxing Mammoth Sequence Tournament. Redkach (23-5, 18 KOs) hasn’t been in the ring since he misplaced a unanimous option towards Danny Garcia in January 2020.

The Prograis-Redkach bout, which modified into first reported by The Athletic, presents Triller yet one more considerable fight on its platform. The enterprise made its substantial splash closing year when it produced the exhibition bout between former heavyweight champions Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr.

Paul is a YouTube broad title and social media character who has participated in two novelty bouts that were sanctioned by explain athletic commissions. Askren, who modified into 19-2-0, 1 NC in his UFC profession, is making his boxing debut.