That’s all for tonight. Be sure to check out Ramon Antonio Vargas’s full report off tonight’s fight and thanks as always for following along with us.
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“I got the drop early,” Prograis says. “I kept pressing the action, but he ran around the whole time. I definitely have to go back to the gym and work on some things. He ran and he tried to survived. He was stronger than I thought and he caught me with some punches, but he just ran around. It was kind of hard to get to him.
“I have to go work on cutting the ring off and stuff. New Orleans, I’m sorry. I wanted to put on a little better performance. When you come back for hometown fights, they make you so nervous. I was in my hotel room, I was nervous. Usually when I’m fighting on the road and I’m not here, I stay in the hotel the whole time. This time I went out before the fight. Hometown fights, they’re the worst, bro.”
So what’s next? Prograis rolls through a list of the division’s beltholders, but it sounds like a fight with rising undisputed lightweight champion Devin Haney is the most attractive option.
“It depends on Eddie (Hearn),” he says. “There’s a lot of big names out there. They have (Devin) Haney. Teo (Lopez), I don’t know what’s going on with Teo. (Subriel) Matías, he has a belt. I don’t want to fight Rollie (Romero), Rollie’s terrible to me. Ryan Garcia. There’s a lot of big fights out there for me. We’ll see what’s happening next.”
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