The Impact Network, a decade-old enterprise dedicated to Christian programming, is about to make a new and different kind of impact — in the boxing business.
New Mexico gets to throw the first punch.
Saturday at the Inn of the Mountain Gods in Mescalero, Albuquerque’s Teresa Tapia is promoting an eight-bout professional boxing card. Las Cruces’ Austin Trout (31-5-1, 17 knockouts), the former WBA junior middleweight champion, is scheduled to fight the main event.
Trout’s 10-round bout against Mexico’s Rosbel Montoya (17-9-1, 13 KOs), plus two other featured bouts, will be televised on Impact (Comcast channel 182, DirecTV 380, DISH 268), starting at 8:30 p.m. The off-TV undercard is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m.
Tapia said her connection to the Impact boxing initiative began with actor-singer Darius McCrary, a longtime friend of hers and her late husband, five-time world champion Johnny Tapia.
“(McCrary) was doing a show with Impact Network,” she said, “and they had told him they wanted to do a boxing show and were going to do it in Detroit (where the network is headquartered).
“Darius said, ‘No, you’ve got to go to New Mexico. There’s nothing like New Mexico. You’ve got to let Teresa be involved.'”
Later, TV producer Steven Marcano, creator of the upcoming Impact boxing series, came to New Mexico and met with Tapia.
“He fell in love with the place and loved everything that I was doing,” she said, “and he signed me as their lead promoter for all boxing shows.”
Marcano has said he’s planning 52 cards over the next 24 months.
Marcano and Impact’s second “Champions and Stars” card is scheduled for March 7 in Tennessee, with Albuquerque welterweight Josh Torres (22-6-2, 13 KOs) on the card.
Tapia said the third Impact card is scheduled for Dublin, Ireland in April. Plans are to stage a card in Albuquerque in May and another at the Inn of the Mountain Gods in June or July, she said.
Marcano told boxingjunkie.com that he has big plans for Trout, saying the Las Cruces southpaw — who fought just once in 2019 — might fight as many as four times on Impact cards in 2020.
Tapia said it was she who brought Trout into the picture.
When Tapia promoted a card in southern New Mexico in October, Trout attended the event in support.
“Austin came to me and asked me if I’d be interested in working with him, and I said ‘of course,'” she said. “I have a lot of love and respect for him, being from New Mexico.
“Then maybe a week-and-a-half after, this deal fell in my lap with Impact, so I introduced them, and they brought him on board. Same thing with (Torres).”
Marcano and The Impact Network also are producing a series of reality shows built around their boxing cards. The first half-hour installment is scheduled to air on Friday at 8:30 p.m.
Trout, 34, is preparing for this fight with veteran trainer Jesse Reid, who worked Johnny Tapia’s corner for his legendary victory over fellow Albuquerquean Danny Romero in 1997. Reid also has worked with world champions Orlando and Gaby Canizales, Bruce Curry, Roger Mayweather and Hector Camacho, among others.
Las Cruces’ Louie Burke, Trout’s original pro trainer, remains close to the former champion and will be in his corner on Saturday.
Trout will enter the ring a heavy favorite against Montoya, who according to boxrec.com has lost seven of his last eight fights.
Unbeaten El Paso featherweight Abel Mendoza (21-0, 16 KOs) is scheduled to face Las Cruces’ Juan Carlos Guillen (8-6-1, three KOs) in one of the two televised co-main events. The other matches heavyweights Alonzo “Big Zo” Butler (31-3-2, 24 KOs) of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Mexico’s Jesús Alberto Martinez Torres (23-13-1, 13 KOs).
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