Javier Fortuna Sends a Message to the Boxing World. Anyone. Any Time.
While he may have closed Cleveland featherweight Yuandale Evans’ eyes with his blistering attack, Javier “El Abejon” Fortuna (19-0, 14 KOs) opened the rest of the world’s last night at Frank Erwin Center, Austin, Texas.
Fighting in the opening ESPN Friday Night Fights-televised bout the 22-year-old southpaw needed just 2:02 of the first round to drop the formerly undefeated Evans twice and cement himself as “the one to watch” in the 126-130-lb divisions.
And so, in the wake of his breathtaking performance, the La Romana, Dominican Republic, resident asks the boxing world a question: “Who’s Next?”
Fortuna says he’s sending out an open invitation to all the world’s best featherweights to come and get some of what Yuandale Evans got last night. Any time. Any place.
“Javier is clearly ready to take on anybody,” said his promoter, Sampson Lewkowicz of Sampson Boxing. “His trainer, Pablo Sarmiento, has done a fantastic job with him. Evans is a very good fighter, but he didn’t belong in the ring with Javier.”
Lewkowicz says he and his fighter are ready, willing and able to put together a big fight on a premium cable network. All any champion or top-rated featherweight needs to do is pick up the phone. “Javier Fortuna is ready.”
