On Saturday April 12th at Live! Casino Hotel in Hanover, Maryland, junior lightweight Jordan “Shortdog” White (18-1 with 12 KOs), who fights out of Washington D.C., will meet Argentina's Jose Matias Romero (29-3 with 10 KOs). White had two outings in 2024, stopping Jonathan Oquendo-Arnaldi in a round and then outscoring Jason Sanchez over ten rounds. Romero has won three in a row since a 2022 loss to ex-champ Robeisy Ramirez. “I’m here to tell you,” said junior lightweight champion Lamont Roach, “NoXcuse Promotions, brought to you by my dad, and ProBox TV, are back with another great night of action-packed fights, headlined by Jordan White, with a supporting cast of DMV’s hottest stars, not to mention my little brother. Y’all better beat me there, because I’m gonna be there. If you can’t make it, watch it on ProBox TV. We’re gonna have a blast.” Roach, of course, is coming off a disputed draw with lightweight star Gervonta Davis last month and is hoping to secure a rematch soon, but in the meantime he will be supporting his family and gymmates at the Casino Hotel.
Heavyweight Stephan Shaw is 20-2 and has stopped 15 of his victims. The 32-year-old, from St Louis was narrowly outscored by Efe Ajagba in 2023, and now Ajagba has an eliminator for the IBF heavyweight title against Martin Bakole next month. Shaw, coming off two first-round knockout wins, is in against Florida-based Nigerian Raphael Alpejiori, who is 18-1 with 17 knockouts. He returned from his lone loss in 2023 to win three times in 2024 and now meets the heavy-hitting Shaw in a potentially explosive clash.
A third scheduled ten-rounder on the show pits William Foster III, of New Haven, Connecticut, against fellow junior lightweight Brandon Leon Benitez. Nicknamed “The Silent Assassin," Foster is 18-2 with 11 KOs after winning two of his three fights in 2024. A former featherweight from Mexico, Benitez (21-3 with 9 KOs) is coming off a defeat to Robeisy Ramirez last June.
There is a host of local talent on the show, too, with welterweight David Whitmire (9-0, 6 KOs), junior bantamweight Jordan Roach (3-0, 1 KO), welterweight Ben Johnson (3-0, 3 KOs), and junior lightweight Francois Scarboro Jr. (9-0, 7 KOs).
