Article by Rick Mohamed

Jermall Charlo vs Juan Macias Montiel for Charlo’s WBC Middleweight Championship at Houston, TX’s Toyota Center on Saturday, June 19 on SHOWTIME.

Jermall Charlo vs. Juan Macias Montiel will be an exciting match! WBC President Mauricio Sulaiman presented the Freedom Belt to the Charlo Twins at their hometown Houston’s Charlo Day celebration for June 19th, the first observance of the new federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery, Juneteenth. 

If memory serves, he did a similar thing when he presented the Mestizo Belt to the winner of the Canelo Alvarez vs. Billy Joe Saunders fight earlier this year. Canelo, a native Mexican, won. If Saunders had won, it would’ve been a bit awkward presenting him with the belt, with Saunders taking it home to the UK. 

Question: if Montiel wins, will he be taking the Freedom Belt home with him? If so, does that trigger enough cultural outrage for Charlo to get a rematch to recover his title, and the Freedom Belt as well? Maybe not, but it does increase the drama. See you there, Brawlers Sports fans!

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