(SEPT 21) COSTA MESA, CA – To some, a fight is a fight. To a trained professional, there’s a world of difference between disciplines, making bouts featuring boxers versus mixed martial artists in one side’s particular sport entertaining, but not particularly fair.

On the Thursday, October 26th edition of Fight Club OC in The Hangar at the OC Fair & Event Center, mixed martial artists Lisa Mauldin and Angel Blackwell will make their professional boxing debuts…against each other, with both seeing how the other half of the combat sports world lives on a level playing field of four rounds with 8oz boxing gloves.

Call it “The Big Switch”.

“A mixed martial artist fighting a boxer in an MMA fight gives the MMA fighter a huge advantage, and the same goes true for MMA fighters engaging in a boxing match with a boxer. It’s really not a fair fight,” said Hall of Fame promoter Roy Englebrecht. “On October 26, Lisa Mauldin and Angel Blackwell will get their chance to test the waters in boxing without having to do so against someone with a huge stylistic advantage. These two ladies know how to fight. Now they want to box, and I’m expecting a barnburner.”

Currently 6-3 as an MMA pro with three finishes, Irvine’s Lisa Mauldin has been on a tear in the PFL promotion, where she’s won two straight, including a third-round stoppage of highly regarded Helen Peralta in February and a first round submission of Desiree Yanez in August. Now she’ll look to close out 2023 in the boxing ring with a win over Blackwell.

Fighting out of San Diego, Angel Blackwell not only has a long amateur background in MMA, but she turned pro last year on a Combate Global Exclusivo card and even has experience as a professional wrestler. But now it’s time to step between the ropes for what she expects to be the biggest fight of her career thus far.

If that bout isn’t enough, a second female bout will feature former national amateur champion Jesikah Guerra 2-0 facing San Jose’s Brianna Jimenez in her pro debut in a middleweight four round bout.

In the Fight Club OC main event, it’s a six-round Tequila Mandala Young Champions bout at 147 pounds when Santa Ana’s Jesse “Lobito” Gonzalez (6-1-1, 2 KOs) faces Josias Gonzalez (2-1) of Whittier.

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