Ardreal Holmes vs. Vernon Brown: date, time, how to watch, background
Unbeaten junior middleweight prospect Ardreal Holmes is scheduled to face Vernon Brown Friday on Showtime.
Ardreal Holmes (11-0, 5 KOs) vs. Vernon Brown (13-1-1, 9 KOs)
Date: Friday, March 11
Time: 9:35 p.m. ET / 6:35 p.m. PT (main event later in show)
Where: Deadwood Mountain Grand, Deadwood, South Dakota
TV/Stream: Showtime (“ShoBox: The New Generation”)
Division: Junior middleweight
Rounds: 10
At stake: No major titles
Pound-for-pound ranking: None
Odds: NA
Also on the card: Luis Acosta vs. Edwin De Los Santos, lightweights; Giovanni Marquez vs. Nelson Morales, junior welterweights
Prediction: Holmes UD
Background: Six-foot-2 junior middleweight prospect Ardreal Holmes will face once-beaten Vernon Brown in the “ShoBox: The New Generation” main event. Holmes was an accomplished amateur, including serving as an alternate on the U.S. Olympic team in 2016. He can box. The product of Flint, Michigan, is coming off a third-round knockout of Jose Antonio Abreu in November 2019, meaning he will have been out of the ring for more than two years. His most-impressive victory was probably a six-round decision over veteran Lanardo Tyner in May 2019. The fight on Friday will be the 27-year-old Holmes’ first scheduled 10-rounder. He’ll have a significant height advantage over Brown, who is 5-foot-7. The 32-year-old southpaw from Chicago last fought in February of last year, when he knocked out Fabian Lyimo in two rounds. Brown’s only setback came by a 10-round decision against Jamontay Clark, the fighter who drew with Sebastian Fundora. That was Brown’s only other scheduled 10-rounder.
