On August 4th at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale in New York, Ghana’s world title hopeful Richard Commey will clash gloves with Mexico’s Yardley Armanta Cruz on the undercard of Devon Alexander and Andre Berto.
Nicknamed Yardley Suarez, the twenty four year old Mexican is based in the states and has 34 bouts to his credit out of which he’s managed to win 24 fights, 10 losses with 14 knockouts.
Not really a knockout artist like his counterpart Commey who has an incredible knouckouts record of 82 percent.
With his 170 rounds of boxing chalked so far, Yardley’s last opponent was in June 6, 2018 against Charley Valdez (39-25,8 KOs) which he won via a second round TKO over 6 contest.
On 17 March 2018, Yardley won his bout against Abel Ramirez (4-3,0) via a first round TKO.
His double defeat to Romero Duno and Mat Ramillard especially with the former knocking him stark out in the first round was pretty damning.
Los Mochis, Sinaloa born Yardley, in his credentials in the art of pugilism has never fought a crack boxer like the Ghanaian hard puncher in the personality of Richard Oblitey Commey.
And If the Jamestown Native, Commey, decides to unload his bevy combination of counter punching, then this fight most certainly won’t travel the distance.
Winner of Garcia and Easter showdown scheduled 28 July next week will most certainly fight Ghana’s Richard Commey.
There must be a reason why the champion, Robert Easter Junior decided to unify the belts against Mikey Garcia rather than fight the second time against the Ghanaian whom under some strange circumstances defeated.
If you recalled how Commey dispatched the then undefeated Alejandro ‘Alex’ Luna with some superiority with his jabs and counter punching then Yardley is certainly in for a hurdle.
It’s obvious that the Ghanaian will have his eyes set on the lightweight World Champions Mikey Garcia and Robert Easter Junior when they meet in a 135-pound title unification in Los Angeles come Saturday the 28th of July.