By Rick Reeno
krikya360.com has been advised that a doubleheader has been finalized for a Premier Boxing Champions [PBC] on CBS card from Corpus Christi Texas on September 6th.
The card will feature a bantamweight rematch between Tomoki Kameda (31-1, 19KOs) and WBA 'regular' champion Jamie McDonnell (26-2-1, 12KOs). The two fighters clashed earlier this year on a PBC card in Hidalgo, Texas in April.
McDonnell went down early in the contest, but battled back in the late rounds to win a razor thin twelve round unanimous decision with an identical score of 114-113 on all three cards. Kameda, looking to avenge his first career defeat, exercised an immediate rematch clause.
Also on the card, former WBC super middleweight champion Anthony Dirrell (27-1-1, 22KOs) will return for the first time since the title losing effort against Badou Jack in April, when he takes on Mexico's Marco Antonio Rubio.
Rubio was scheduled to return last month in Mexico, but eventually passed on the opportunity to accept the fight with Dirrell. He's been out of the ring since last October's knockout loss to Gennady Golovkin.
BoxingScene reported last month that Dirrell-Rubio was being negotiated for an August date, but the fight got moved up during a reshuffling of several potential bouts.
Peter Quillin was initially scheduled to headline this card, but his fight got switched to another date.
From what BoxingScene has heard, there is talk that Quillin might possibly return on September 12th as part of an afternoon PBC on NBC card which takes place prior to the Mayweather-Berto Showtime pay-per-view, but there is no confirmation on that as of yet. The other fight of that doubleheader would be the rescheduled bout between IBF junior middleweight champion Cornelius “K9” Bundrage (34-5, 19 KOs) and mandatory challenger Jermall Charlo (21-0, 16 KOs).