Alex Saucedo is Looking To Make Some Big Moves in 2018

By Steve Kim

Junior welterweight hopeful, Alex Saucedo (26-0, 16 KO's), faces Abner Lopez (25-8, 21 KO's) this Saturday from the StubHub Center in Carson, California as part of the Top Rank undercard that takes place before the ESPN broadcast begins.

The main event will feature a featherweight showdown between Oscar Valdez and Scott Quigg. Valdez (23-0, 19 KOs) will make the fourth defense of his World Boxing Organization (WBO) Featherweight title against Quigg (34-1-2, 25 KOs).

The event will be televised live and exclusively at 10:30 p.m. EST on ESPN and ESPN Deportes and stream live on the ESPN App.

The card will also feature a pair of undefeated 130-pound contenders, when Andy ‘El Tiburon' Vences of San Jose, Calif., takes on Detroit product Erick De Leon.

For Saucedo, this could be the year he makes his move from prospect to young contender.

"I'm very excited, very motivated, this is what we've been working for for so many years and it's just a matter of time now and getting this fight out the way and I believe something big will come,"said the 23-year old Saucedo.

"I think this is our year, I'm felling very good training with Abel (Sanchez). I've progressed so much. We had some great great sparring. We've been looking good in sparring and I feel like I've progressed so much the past year I've been with Abel,"stated the native of Oklahoma City who now trains up in the mountains of Big Bear, California.

"This year is a big year for us to jump to be a top contender, maybe a world champion, already."

He says of his upcoming foe - "He's a rugged Mexican fighter, comes forward, a little long, has power as you can see, he has 21 knockouts. We're expecting a tough fight. We prepare ourselves for that."

Steve Kim is the news editor for BoxingScene.com.

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