There’s a pretty good DAZN card tonight, though they’ve got another one of those YouTube “celebrity” fights on the card as well. DAZN, 9:00 pm ET, Demetrius Andrade vs Luke Keeler, Jake Paul vs AnEsonGib, Tevin Farmer vs Joseph Diaz Jr, Daniel Roman vs Murodjon Akhmadaliev. Big Thursday night card for DAZN, with three world title fights at 160, 130, and 122, plus the YouTube junk. I’ll play along with a fight between YouTube celebrities big enough to main event, but if you can’t headline over Andrade-Keeler, how famous are you, really? Is this even a worthwhile novelty? (Yes, as it will surely be the main draw for actually selling tickets in Miami for this card.) Andrade-Keeler figures to be a mismatch, in all candor, but the other two title fights are very competitive on paper, and Roman-Akhmadaliev has me particularly excited.
A rare Showtime card headlined by a rare Gary Russell Jr appearance. Quality card. SHO, 9:00 pm ET, Gary Russell Jr vs Tugstsogt Nyambayar, Guillermo Rigondeaux vs Liborio Solis, Jaime Arboleda vs Jayson Velez. Russell-Nyambayar is a fight I really think you don’t want to sleep on. Gary’s a terrific talent, always has been, but Nyambayar is one of the better opponent’s he’s faced — at least on paper. A former Olympic silver medalist from Mongolia, “King Tug” has some skills and could press Russell in a way he hasn’t been since the first half of the JoJo Diaz fight in 2018, and that wasn’t an easy night for Russell. “Phone Booth” Rigo is back and taking a bold move down to 118 at age 39, facing the 37-year-old Solis for the vacant WBA “world” bantamweight title. Arboleda-Velez is a WBA eliminator at 130.
Ryan Garcia about to fight on DAZN. If he wins, Garcia-Jorge Linares this summer at Staples Center in a big time fight.
I got a text about it in the 7th round so I missed most but from what I heard it was a domination in those rounds just like 7-10
I wish Plant had more power than he does. That’s my concern against top-level opponents. And my bad on not posting the fight, out of town for the weekend.
Fury executing a perfect game plan so far. I've never been a fan, but he definitely has a great boxing brain.
Straight up looked like Wilder's crew had no plan coming in to tonight. That was brutal. Fury did whatever he wanted all match.
He has such an odd body. When he kept his shirt on at the weigh in there was some speculation that he might be in really good shape. Then he took his shirt off in the ring and had some fucking EE cups. He's said it before that he's a fat guy. He's right.
Eddie wants to make the fight. If DAZN plays this right, they could have AJ-Fury and Canelo-GGG III in back-to-back months.
Fury should be a massive favorite vs Joshua, right? I’m not drunk enough to make a Glass Jawshua joke yet, gimme 30 minutes