By Jake Donovan

For the second straight fight, Austin Trout enters against someone other than his originally intended opponnet.

Anthony Mundine is to blame for that, but there's at least the chance to settle an old score with Tuesday's showdown versus Joey Hernandez. The bout airs live from Hollywood Paladium in Hollwyood, Calif. on Fox Sports 1, headlining the series premiere of Premier Boxing Champion's 'PBC on Fox: Toe to Toe.'

The pairing is an odd one, a rivalrly spawned from an earlier exchange through social media. At first, Trout (29-2, 16KOs)—a former super welterweight champion who has won three straight since suffering the lone two losses of his career in a rough 2013 campaign—thought it was typical fan gibberish, until he put the Twitter handle with the fighter's name.

"I'm a student of the game and watch a lot of fights," notes Trout, who has scored consecutive 7th round knockouts among his current win streak. "Some goon by the name of Twinkle Fingers was talking s*** on Twitter at some point. Then I saw on TV a fighter named Joey "Twingle Fingers" Hernandez who fought and struggled.

"I watched him and said to myself, "this is the goon that was talking s*** to me." Now I have that chance to shut him up once and for all."

Tuesday's fight isn't intend to begin a new trend for Trout, however. Just because this fight came about, it doesn't mean all it takes is a little bit of online trash talk to get him in the ring. Hernandez (24-3-1, 14KOs) comes in having lost two of his last three starts, but just happened to be the guy who said yes after Mundine bailed on a Trout fight for the second time in four months. 

Once their differences are settled up in the ring, Trout would like to see a win lead to bigger game.

"The next fight has to be a name," Trout insists, though of course of the realization that he still has to get through this fight. "We've gone through this level.

"I hope Jermall Charlo beats K9 (Cornelius Bundrage) this weekend," Trout says of the upcoming super welterweight title fight this weekend on NBC. "I'd love to get him next, or else anyone that gets me closer to another world championship."

Jake Donovan is the managing editor of BoxingScene.com

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