ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Two undefeated Allentown-area boxers will fight on home soil Friday night when Red Owl Boxing brings its 10-bout “Boxfest XVIII” card to Archer Music Hall, the promotion’s second professional event in downtown Allentown in less than two months.
Super welterweight Gustavo Morales of Allentown (4-0, 3 KOs) and welterweight Ruben Rodriguez of Whitehall Township (6-0, 6 KOs) headline the local contingent on a card topped by a World Boxing Association Continental Americas super featherweight title defense between champion Deonte “Lay ‘Em Down” Brown (17-0, 11 KOs) of Morgan City, La., and Yohan “La Fiera” Vasquez (26-6, 21 KOs), a Dominican-born contender out of the Bronx.
The main card streams live on DAZN beginning at 8 p.m., following a preliminary card on Red Owl Boxing’s YouTube channel starting at 5:30 p.m. Doors at Archer Music Hall, at 939 Hamilton St., open at 4:30 p.m…