Undefeated Dallas Super Middleweight Sam Arnold III returns home to Graduate from Prospect to Contender
PhilBoxing.com
Tue, 15 Apr 2025
HAMILTON, Ontario, Canada (April 14, 2025) – Last Saturday night in Dallas, undefeated super middleweight Sam (S3) Arnold, III (12-0, 8 KOs) fought at home for the first time in 2 ½ years, turning in a thoroughly dominant performance to stop Julio Cesar Ortega (9-2, 6 KOs) in the third round of their main event fight at The Bomb Factory.
Ortega hadn’t been floored as a pro, never mind knocked out, until he got into the ring against the 21-year-old Arnold, who sent his Mexican opponent to the canvas in the second round, followed by Ortega taking a knee from a stiff jab in the third, which resulted in referee Laurence Cole waving off the fight.
“I came and did what I had to do,” Arnold said after the fight. “Thanks to everyone in my city for supporting me. Next up is a crack at the top 15 and then on to champion of the world. I started off knowing I would be world champion and with my team and promoter behind me, it’s my time!”
Arnold’s promoter, Canada-based Dan Otter from Three Lions Promotions, naturally is high on his young super middleweight’s potential.
“Sam looked great tonight,” Otter added. “He is ready to go from prospect to contender and, at only 21 years of age, the sky’s the limit for him. Arnold has what it takes to be the next star of the super middleweight division. Time is on his side because he’s so young.”
Arnold fought four times outside of Dallas between March 10, 2022, and this past Saturday evening, in Nova Scotia, Canada, Philadelphia, Costa Mesa, California, and Kansas City, Kansas. The latter was a first-round technical knockout of veteran Breidis Prescott, who is best known for being the first to knock out Olympic silver medalist Amir Khan.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Arnold had to lie about his age when he first started boxing because eight was the youngest children could be to box. At 10, he started competing as an amateur, eventually developing into an outstanding amateur boxer who captured five national titles in one years to become the No. 1 American in his weight class.
The COVID pandemic hit everything hard, including amateur boxing, so at 17, Arnold decided to turn pro in Mexico because professional boxers need to be 18 in most of the United States. His arduous journey, though, is already paying dividends because he’s fought in two of the premier boxing venues in Texas, AT & T Stadium in Dallas and The Alamodome in San Antonio.
“We will be approaching the sanctioning bodies to see what belts are available,” Otter explained. “His next fight will be a ten-round title bout, date and opponent to be announced in the days to come.”
Remember his name, boxing fans, because everything’s big in Texas and Sam Arnold III may be the next Dallas star in the ring.
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