Light welterweight “Hammerin'” Hank Lundy is in action this weekend, headlining ShoBox on Friday, Feb. 21
“Most boxing fans already know what ‘Hammerin” Hank is all about,” CES president Jimmy Burchfield Sr. said. He grew up on ESPN, fighting on the road against some of the best in the world, and now he’ll bring his talents to ShoBox where he belongs.
Philadelphia’s Lundy (23-3-1, 11 KOs), ranked among the top 15 in the 140-pound division in two major sanctioning bodies, will face Miami’s Angelo Santana (14-1, 11 KOs) at 135 pounds in the 10-round main event of Don King’s ShoBox card at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland.
The hard-hitting Santana is looking to bounce back from a knockout loss to Bahodir Mamadjonov in April while Lundy is looking to build off a huge win against Ajose Olusegun in July. Lundy took the aforementioned fight against Olusegun on short notice and still won decisively, pitching a shutout on two of three judges’ scorecards in their 10-round ESPN headliner. The win snapped Lundy’s two-fight losing streak and vaulted him back into the conversation among the top-rated fighters in his weight class.
It’s a big fight and opportunity for Lundy, who has been consistently one of the least consistent fighters in the game, big wins sandwiched between bad losses. We’ll see what he has on Friday night on Shobox.
