Baseball trumps boxing.
PBC on Fox was scheduled to return on July 25, with Jamal James fighting Thomas Dulorme in the main event. However, baseball has announced that it will kick off its belated season on July 23. And the first MLB on Fox games are on … you guessed it … July 25.
As a result, the James-Dulorme card has been pushed back to Aug.8, according to The Athletic.
The show had been scheduled to fight on April 11 in Minneapolis — James’ hometown — but the fight was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. It was rescheduled for July 25 in a studio setting without spectators.
The site hasn’t been announced. And it’s possible that the James-Dulorme fight will be shifted to a different card, meaning another matchup could be featured on the Aug. 8 card.
The 6-foot-2 James (26-1, 12 KOs) has won six consecutive fights since he lost a unanimous decision to Yordenis Ugas in August 2015. James outpointed Antonio DeMarco in July of last year.
Dulorme (25-3-1, 16 KOs) rebounded from a decision loss to Ugas and draw with Jessie Vargas by easily outpointing then-unbeaten Terrel Williams in September.
Also on the card, The Athletic is reporting that Lennox Allen (22-0-1, 14 KOs) of Guyana will face David Morrell (2-0, 2 KOs) of Cuba.
The last main event on Fox was Robert Helenius’ upset knockout of Adam Kownacki on March 7.