ACCRA (DA) — Curaçao-born lightweight Jursly Vargas is scheduled to fight in Accra on Dec. 20, eight months after stopping Isaac Dowuona in the first round in the Ghanaian capital. Vargas will box on the undercard of The Showdown II at The Grand Arena. His opponent is still to be announced.
Vargas is 10-0 with nine knockouts. After beating Dowuona in April, he reached 10 wins in September by knocking out Aruba’s Israel Nunes de Souza in the second round of his first professional bout in Rotterdam.
Jarrell Miller, the World Boxing Association’s No. 1-ranked heavyweight, will face 2016 Olympic gold medalist Tony Yoka in the main event. DAZN will stream the card live worldwide.