It looks like Stephen Fulton and Brandon Figueroa will be running back their exciting battle from a few years ago.
Fulton and Figueroa will meet again on December 14, a source close to Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) told The Ring late Thursday night.
BrunchBoxing.com’s Matthew Brown was the first to report the fight.
The 12-round bout will take place at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. The WBC featherweight title fight will precede the Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis-Lamont Roach WBA lightweight title fight main event.
Both fights will be streamed live as part of the final PBC on Prime Pay-Per-View event of 2024.
Fulton and Figueroa squared off in a thrilling, action-packed fight in November 2021, producing exciting exchanges in an ebb and flow fight. Fulton, then the WBO world junior featherweight titleholder, would win a short majority decision and add the WBC world title to his resume.
The 30-year-old Fulton (22-1, 8 knockouts), who lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, would defend the unified title more than six months later, defeating Danny Roman by decision over 12 one-sided rounds.
More than 13 months later, on July 25 last year, Fulton fought IBF and WBA unified titleholder Naoya Inoue in a clash for the undisputed championship. Fulton was game, but was dropped twice and stopped in round eight.
In his last fight on September 14, his first since the loss to Inoue and his first legitimate fight at 126 pounds, Fulton overcame a takedown in round five to win a close split decision over fringe contender Carlos Castro.
Figueroa (25-1-1, 19 KOs), who lives in Weslaco, Texas, knocked out former world junior featherweight titleholder Jessie Magdaleno in round nine of his last fight on May 4. The victory over Magdaleno comes exactly 14 months after Figueroa won a hard fought unanimous decision over Mark Magsayo to win an interim world title belt.
The 27-year-old Figueroa, who is rated No. 7 by The Ring at 126 poundshas won his last three fights since the loss to Fulton. The other win was a knockout win over Carlos Castro in July 2022.
Like Fulton, Figueroa has fought most of his career at 122 pounds, amassing knockout victories over Victor Proa, Luis Suarez Cruz, Oscar Escandon, Moises Flores, Yonfrez Parejo and Damien Vazquez. In May 2021, Figueroa won the WBC world junior featherweight title, knocking out Luis Nery in the nine round.
Francisco A. Salazar has written for The Ring since October 2013 and has covered boxing in Southern California and abroad since 2000. Francisco also covers boxing for the Ventura County (California) Star newspaper. He can be reached at (email protected)
