Zuffa Boxing 06's headline bout on Sunday features Shane Mosley Jr., who has carved out his own career as a skilled and seasoned middleweight apart from his father's Hall of Fame legacy. Mosley Jr. battled his way up the ranks to earn a shot at an interim championship vs. Jesus Ramos last year. But after falling short on the scorecards, Mosley has gone back to the drawing board and is ready to ignite a fresh run at the vacant Zuffa middleweight title. His first assignment is Ukraine’s Serhii Bohachuk who stepped up to 160 pounds and delivered a superb performance on his Zuffa Boxing debut to edge out Radzhab Butaev over ten rounds at Zuffa Boxing 02. Now “El Flaco” plans to claim back-to-back victories in the Zuffa Boxing ring by defeating Mosley and staking his claim for a shot at the inaugural Zuffa Boxing 160-pound world title.
Chief support comes in the form of a welterweight matchup between two East Coast warriors as New Jersey’s 25-1 Julian “Hammer Hands” Rodriguez returns to the Meta Apex in Las Vegas to take on Massachusetts native James Perella, who is 21-0 with 15 knockouts. The 33-year old is a relative latecomer to the pro ranks, having only turned professional at the age of 26. But in the seven years since, perella has built an enviable record, and heads into his Zuffa Boxing debut having knocked out eight of his last nine opponents. He’ll face a tough introduction to life under the Zuffa Boxing banner as he takes on Rodriguez, who claimed a unanimous decision victory over the previously-undefeated Cain Sandoval on the main card of Zuffa Boxing 01 back in January. “Hammer Hands” returns this weekend looking to claim his fifth straight win as he attempts to establish himself as one of the men to beat in Zuffa Boxing’s 147-pound division.
Another returnee from Zuffa Boxing 01 gets the chance to pick up where he left off, as Mexico’s Misael Rodriguez takes on Greece’s Andreas Katzourakis in a battle of undefeated middleweights. Rodriguez won his Zuffa Boxing debut via fourth-round stoppage of previously unbeaten Austin Deanda, as the 2016 Olympic bronze medallist laid down a marker for the rest of the 160-pound division. Now, “El Chino” is ready to return and wants to cement his status as a legitimate contender for the inaugural Zuffa Boxing middleweight title. In order to position himself accordingly, he’ll have to deal with Katzourakis, who brings his own perfect record. It’s a battle between two 16-0 contenders.
The featured preliminary card bout will see unbeaten French light heavyweight Raphael “Monny Time” Monny make his Zuffa Boxing debut against hard-hitting San Francisco native “Sugar” Suray Mahmutovic. Monny will look to extend his perfect professional record to 10-0 after stopping the previously unbeaten prospect George Akoto last time out, while Mahmutovic makes his return to the ring for the first time since his unanimous decision win over Ty McLeod last summer. Both men will do battle in a bid to earn themselves a step up in competition later in the year as they look to make a name for themselves in the Zuffa Boxing light heavyweight division.
Undefeated lightweight Justin Viloria already has his first Zuffa Boxing win under his belt, and at Zuffa Boxing 06 he faces off against Mexico’s Ivan Ortiz. Viloria is coming off a unanimous decision victory over Oscar Perez in an eight-round lightweight outing at Zuffa Boxing 02 as he extended his perfect professional record to 12-0 (8 KOs). But in Ortiz, he’s facing a fighter with a similar record. The 12-0-1 (9 KOs) Mexican has cut his teeth on the Mexican scene, but against Viloria, he’ll be facing the highest-caliber opponent of his career.
Heavyweight knockout artists collide as 11-0 Da’Mazion Vanhouter and 18-1 Raphael Murphy go toe-to-toe. Nineteen years separate the pair, with Vanhouter, age 21, facing 40 year-old Murphy. The younger man has been by far the more active fighter in recent years, having fought four times since Murphy’s most recent outing. Chicago-born Texas native Murphy has lost just once – back in 2017 – and will look to extend his seven-fight win streak by handing Vanhouter the first defeat of his career. Vanhouter will have other ideas, of course, and will bid to extend his run of stoppage victories to six with an inside-the-distance win. One piece of advice: Don’t join this fight late – seven of Vanhouter’s eight career KO victories have come in round one.
Bantamweights Emiliano Cardenas and Alexis Alvarado were all set to face off at Zuffa Boxing 05, only for a training camp injury to rule Alvarado out of the event. Now “La Pesadilla” is fit again, and the pair are finally ready to do battle. Cardenas already has a Zuffa Boxing win on his record, courtesy of a six-round unanimous decision victory over Marcus Harris at Zuffa Boxing 01 back in January. Alvarado, meanwhile, hasn’t fought since a four-round unanimous decision win in Temecula, California, back in November 2025. With Cardenas entering the bout at 10-0, and Alvarado arriving with a 9-1-1 record, both men have the opportunity to claim an important victory over a fellow in-form prospect as they look to make their way up the bantamweight ladder.
The opening bout of the night will see light heavyweights kick off the action as Uzbekistan’s former Youth World Champion Rakhmatullo “Spartan” Boymatov makes his professional boxing debut against San Diego’s 6-2-1 prospect Caleb Hall. Boymatov, age 22, is part of a team of Eastern European prospects operating out of coach Joel Diaz’s gym in Indio, California, and has worked as a sparring partner for former cruiserweight champion Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez. But now he’ll take his chance to step out under the lights as he makes his pro debut against Hall, who is looking to bounce back from a unanimous decision defeat in January. Prior to that defeat, Hall had won six in a row, with four of them coming inside the distance. He’ll be keen to return to that sort of form to make a big impression on his Zuffa Boxing debut.
