Showtime Sports will live stream three undercard bouts on Saturday, July 27th from Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore leading up to Gervonta Davis’ homecoming title defense. The stream begins at 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT on Showtime Sports' YouTube channel and boxing Facebook page. Richardson Hitchins (pictured) (9-0, 5 KOs), a 2016 Haitian Olympian fighting out of Brooklyn, returns for his fourth fight of 2019 against Philadelphia's Tyrone Crawley (7-1-1) in an eight-round welterweight match. Baltimore-native Malik Hawkins (15-0, 9 KOs) fights in his hometown for the first time in nearly four years in an eight-round 140-pound bout against Johnathan Steele (9-4-1, 6 KOs). In the opening bout of the streaming countdown show, 20-year-old New Jersey prospect Dylan Price (8-0, 6 KOs) steps in for an eight-round super flyweight bout versus Samuel Gutierrez (16-23-6, 6 KOs).
In other undercard action, super middleweight Ronald “The Thrill” Gavril (19-3, 15 KOs) competes in an eight-round fight against St Louis-native Vaughn Alexander (14-3, 9 KOs); Virginia’s Immanuwel Aleem (18-1-2, 11 KOs) clashes in a ten-round middleweight fight against Freddy Hernandez (34-11, 22 KOs); a ten-round super middleweight showdown pits Buffalo’s Lionell Thompson (20-5, 11 KOs) against Texas’ Brian Vera (26-15, 16 KOs); and Puerto Rico’s Jayson Velez (28-5-1, 20 KOs) takes on Mexico’s Hector Suarez (12-10-2, 6 KOs) in a ten-round super featherweight attraction.
Additional fights will feature Washington, D.C.’s Kareem Martin in an eight-round junior welterweight affair against Mexico’s Luis Avila and Staten Island’s Kenny Robles taking on unbeaten Shawn West for six rounds of super lightweight action.
Rounding out the card are a trio of fighters making their pro debuts as Trenton, New Jersey’s Javon Woodard Jr. steps in for a four-round super bantamweight fight against Houston’s Isau Duenez; Baltimore’s Malik Warren competes in a four-round super featherweight matchup versus California’s Davonte McCowen; and Cleveland’s DeMichael Harris debuts in a four-round super featherweight attraction.
The Showtime telecast, a Premier Boxing Champions event, is headlined by WBA 130-pound super champion and Baltimore native Gervonta “Tank” Davis defending against mandatory challenger Ricardo “Científico” Núñez. Former champions Yuriorkis Gamboa and Roman “Rocky” Martínez battling in a ten-round lightweight attraction while lightweight Ladarius “Memphis” Miller steps up to face a former champion, Jezzrel “El Invisible” Corrales in a ten-round showdown.
