Read the latest news and information for Yoenis Tellez vs. Julian Williams for the vacant interim WBA super welterweight championship, including the fight date, venue, how to watch, each fighter's record, and more.
Yoenis Tellez vs. Julian Williams is scheduled to take place on Saturday, March 1st.
Yoenis Tellez vs. Julian Williams is the third of seven fights on the main card for this Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) event which starts at 8 PM ET, so Tellez and Williams will likely start their ring walks around 9 or 9:30 PM ET, depending how long earlier fights take.
Yoenis Tellez vs. Julian Williams will fight at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Yoenis Tellez vs. Julian Williams will be broadcast via Pay-Per-View on Amazon Prime, and it can also be purchased via PPV.com.
Yes. The vacant interim WBA super welterweight championship is on the line in Yoenis Tellez vs. Julian Williams.
Yoenis Tellez is not yet five years into his professional career, but he has already made an impression with seven knockouts in nine fights.
He won each of his first four fights via TKO, despite that two of them were scheduled for just four rounds and the other two were scheduled for six rounds.
In his first fight scheduled for 10 rounds, Tellez beat veteran Sergio Garcia via TKO in the third round in their October 2023 bout. He followed that up with a final-round KO win over Livan Navarro just over a month later, on December 1st, 2023.
Tellez fought twice in 2024, first beating Joseph Jackson via unanimous decision in April and then beating Johan Gonzalez via seventh-round TKO in October.
Veteran fighter Julian Williams turned pro in 2010, and he got off to a six-fight winning streak to start his career in the professional ranks. Just two of his first six fights went the distance, and he won the other four via TKO.
In his seventh career fight, just over a year after he turned professional, Williams drew with Francisco Santana on points. He won his next three fights via unanimous decision before winning another three straight via TKO. He capped off the seven-fight winning streak with a unanimous decision win before fighting to a no contest against Hugo Centeno Jr. in September 2013.
After the no contest, he embarked on another long winning streak, this time lasting nine fights before he lost to the talented Jermall Charlo via fifth-round KO in 2016.
Williams reacted to the disappointment with yet another winning streak, winning five fights from 2017 to the end of 2019.
Since then, though, he is just 1-3. He lost to Jeison Rosario via fifth-round KO in 2020, lost via split decision to Vladimir Hernandez in October 2021, beat Rolando Mansilla via unanimous decision in an eight-round bout in 2022, and most recently lost to Carlos Adames via ninth-round TKO in June 2024.