Garcia-Vargas, Ortiz-Scott, more: Boxing fight times and TV schedule for November 11-12

Friday, November 11

CBS Sports Network, 12:30 am ET, Harmonito Dela Torre vs Jose Luis Araiza. Your standard CBS SN garbage.

Saturday, November 12

HBO / Sky Sports (UK), 2:00 pm ET, Luis Ortiz vs Malik Scott, Jason Sosa vs Stephen Smith, Martin Murray vs Dmitry Chudinov, Jamie McDonnell vs Liborio Solis. The UK coverage starts at 2 pm ET, the HBO coverage picks up for Ortiz-Scott at 4 pm ET. This is a “loaded” card in that there are a lot of familiar names, but the best matchup here is Sosa-Smith, and how good is that one, really? A solid 3/5? But there are two world title fights, Murray’s return, and a main event that likely won’t be lasting long. BLH will have live coverage.

Spike, 9:00 pm ET. Danny Garcia vs Samuel Vargas, Jarrett Hurd vs Jo Jo Dan, Javier Fortuna vs Omar Douglas. The main event is an atrocious mismatch with no purpose beyond “tuning up” Garcia for a spring fight against Keith Thurman (knock on wood). The other fights aren’t so bad. Fortuna-Douglas could be competitive or could be a Fortuna blitz, depending on which version of Fortuna shows up. And Hurd is a very good prospect whose stock has risen this year. BLH will have live coverage.