PBC announced Friday afternoon that junior middleweights Yoenis Tellez and Brian Mendoza will square off in its new co-feature March 28 in Las Vegas. The bout between Cuba’s Tellez (11-1, 8 KOs) and Albuquerque, New Mexico’s Mendoza (23-4, 17 KOs) will immediately precede Amazon Prime Video’s pay-per-view main event, Sebastian Fundora versus Keith Thurman, at MGM Grand Garden Arena.

Cuba’s Sanchez (25-1, 18 KOs) and Torrez (14-0, 12 KOs), of Tulare, California, were set to meet two weeks from Saturday night in an IBF heavyweight elimination match. Sanchez aggravated a lingering knee injury during training camp and asked for a postponement.

Tellez, 25, is trying to re-establish himself in the 154-pound division following a unanimous-decision defeat to Germany’s Abass Baraou (17-2, 9 KOs) in their 12-round fight for the WBA interim super welterweight title August 23 at Caribe Royale in Orlando, Florida. He stopped Kendo Castaneda (21-13, 9 KOs) in the fifth round December 13 at Caribe Royale – Tellez’s only action since Baraou dropped him in the 12th round and beat him on all three scorecards.

Mendoza, 32, upset Fundora by seventh-round knockout to win the WBC interim super welterweight crown in April 2023. He lost back-to-back 12-round unanimous decisions to former WBO champ Tim Tszyu and another ex-WBC interim champ, Serhii Bohachuk, in his two fights following his victory over Fundora.

Mendoza fought only once since Bohachuk beat him in March 2024. He stopped journeyman Jesus Rojas (then 12-10-2) in the fourth round July 4 in Cuidad, Juarez, Mexico.

The 6-foot-6 Fundora won the vacant WBC belt by beating Tszyu in March 2024, in his first fight after Mendoza knocked him out. Fundora (23-1-1, 15 KOs), of Coachella, California, will defend his WBC belt against Thurman (31-1, 23 KOs, 1 NC), a former WBA/WBC welterweight champ from Clearwater, Florida.

PBC also announced Friday that Armenian heavyweight prospect Gurgen Hovhannisyan (9-0, 8 KOs) will oppose Phoenix’s Cesar Navarro (15-3, 13 KOs) in the 10-round opener of PBC’s pay-per-view broadcast March 28. Cuban middleweight contender Yoenli Hernandez (9-0, 8 KOs) is set to face Cleveland’s Terrell Gausha (24-5-1, 12 KOs) in the second fight on this pay-per-view show.