DAZN adds Linares-Fortuna on August 28th

Edited Press Release

30/06/2020

DAZN adds Linares-Fortuna on August 28th

Ex-titlists collide as Jorge Linares battles Javier Fortuna on Aug. 28th at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California. The bout will be broadcast live on DAZN with no fans in attendance. Linares (47-5, 29 KOs) is technically a three-division titleholder, but his titles are considered soft. His title winning fights were a faded Osacr Larios for the vacant WBC featherweight title, Whyber Garcia for the vacant WBA junior lightweight title and Francisco Javier Prieto for the vacant WBC lightweight title. Fortuna (35-2-1, 24 KOs) has held a couple of WBA secondary titles. Linares-Fortuna is billed for a completely bogus title, "the WBC diamond lghtweight championship" even though the WBC already has two champs, Vasiliy Lomachenko (real) and Devin Haney (paper) on record.