The sport’s brightest prospect from the last calendar year is officially set to begin his 2020 campaign.

Vergil Ortiz Jr. and Samuel Vargas collide in what marks the first DAZN-USA boxing event to air in nearly five months, as they headline a five-fight bill live from a crowdless Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California.

All boxers made weight for the show, which did lose one bout due to non-coronavirus related illness.

Ortiz (15-0, 15KOs) needed two tries and the services of a towel as a shield in order to hit the mark. The 22-year old knockout artist from Grand Prairie, Texas hit the 147-pound welterweight limit immediately after stripping down to his birthday suit after initially weighing in at 147.2 pounds in stylish underwear.

The bout is the first for Ortiz since capping a four-knockout campaign in 2019 which earned universal accolades as Prospect of the Year.

Vargas (31-5-2, 14KOs) vows to represent the roadblock between Ortiz and the welterweight title stage. The 31-year old from Toronto, Canada by way of Bogota, Colombia weighed 146.6 pounds for his first fight in more than a year. Vargas rebounded from a hard-fought 10-round split decision defeat at the hands of former welterweight titlist Luis Collazo last March to edge out veteran journeyman Silverio Ortiz last June.

The two were due to collide on March 28 at The Forum in Inglewood, California, only for the DAZN show to get shut down due to the initial wave of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

The show lost its original co-feature, when Hector Tanajara (19-0, 5KOs) was left without an opponent after Philippines’s Mercito Gesta (32-3-3, 17KOs) suffered from food poisoning.

Bumped up to the chief support, second generation boxer Shane Mosley Jr. collides with Colorado-based Boricua journeyman Jeremy Ramos in an eight-round middleweight contest.

Mosely (15-3, 9KOs)—the son of Hall of Fame former three division champion Shane Mosley—arrived at a trim and fit 159.4 pounds. Colorado Springs’ Ramos (11-8, 8KOs)—a full-time barber when not training—came in right at the 160-pound middleweight limit.

Seniesa Estrada was also due to appear on the March 28 card which never saw the light of day as the East Los Angeles product enters her first fight of 2020. It comes versus Topeka, Kansas’ Miranda Atkins in a 10-round battle of unbeaten junior flyweighs.

Estrada (18-0, 7KOs) hit the scale at a fight ready pounds 107.8 pounds, while Atkins (5-0, 5KOs) checked in at 106.8 pounds

Unbeaten prospect Hector Valdez (12-0, 8KOs) checked in at 121.6 pounds for his eight-round junior featherweight clash versus Josue Morales (11-11-4, 1KO) who tipped the scale at 120.6 pounds.

Evan Sanchez (7-0, 6KOs) weighed 147 pounds for his six-round clash versus Issouf Kinda (18-4, 7KOs), who weighed 144.6 pounds for the opening bout of the livestream.

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