Antonio Moran finds himself in the very role he was dispatched to spoil in his prior ring appearance.

The veteran fringe contender from Mexico City headlines the summer season finale of Boxeo Telemundo. Moran will face countryman Luis Solis in a scheduled 10-round junior welterweight in the main event, airing live from a crowdless Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Florida (Friday, Telemundo, 12:00am ET).

Both boxers fight for the first time in 2020, each in search of a win.

“We saw what happened just last week in the main event,” Felix ‘Tutico’ Zabala Jr., president and owner of All Star Boxing Inc. told BoxingScene.com of the hunger each participant has brought to the summer series. “We never make a fight—especially a main event—with the intention of it being easy for either side. Dennis Contreras showed the world that a fighter should never be judged by his [ring] record.”

Solis actually wouldn’t mind that, considering last weekend’s results. Contreras entered his August 28 clash with Colombia’s Belmar Preciado (20-3-1, 13KOs) carrying a meager mark of 21-10-1 (19KOs), having won just one fight in his previous ten starts.

That changed in a big way, when the Guadalajara-bred trialhorse dropped and stopped Preciado in five rounds.

Yucatán’s Solis enters Friday’s main event with a record of 25-10-4 (21KOs), though with greater recent success than that of Contreras. The 28-year old is 9-3 in his last 12 starts, with all of his defeats over that stretch spanning three weight divisions. Still, he hasn’t fought since a 4th round knockout loss to Kerman Lejarraga in an ill-advised junior middleweight fight last June on the road in Bilbao, Spain.

There is also the dilemma of having yet to win in the United States, as Solis is 0-6 on this side of the border.

Moran (24-4-1, 17KOs) hasn’t won a fight since December 2018, though arguably entering on the heels of one of his more impressive career performances. The 27-year old nearly pulled off an upset of his own in fighting to a 10-round draw with unbeaten 140-pound prospect Yomar Alamo in this very venue last October.

Four months prior came a 7th round knockout loss to Devin Haney, who went on to lay claim to a lightweight title. Moran has since moved up in weight, fighting at junior welterweight for the second straight time.

As has been the case all summer, Friday’s card will take place without fans in attendance and with all boxers and assigned essential personnel required to comply with all health and safety protocols within the on-site bubble.

“It has been a unique experience, to say the least,” notes Zabala. “Even in doing this series for more than 30 years, we can never say that we have seen it all. These times have certainly proven that.”

The card will also feature Xander Zayas (4-0, 3KOs), a blue-chip welterweight prospect from Plantation, Florida by way of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Zayas faces Orlando Salgado (1-0, 1KO) in a scheduled four-round welterweight bout, which will come just hours before celebrating his 18th birthday.

Also to be featured on the undercard is Puerto Rico’s Bryan Polaco (1-0, 1KO), the former amateur standout who turned pro in the Telemundo summer series premiere on August 14. Polaco—who scored a 1st round knockout in the bout—faces Lake City, Florida’s Joshua Sikes who makes his pro debut,

Jake Donovan is a senior writer for BoxingScene.com. Twitter: @JakeNDaBox