white is right
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Yes he is very young and if I didn't know any better you would think he was a front for a mob syndicate washing money ie MTK Global and their promotional company. The story I read stated he received a promoters license at 23 and took a 10k pound sterling loan to run his first show and within a few years he was on cable tv and stealing Okolie, Buatsi and others from Hearn.
Tomorrow night ESPN and Sky have a Las Vegas card with loud mouth braggart Teofimo Lopez defending the crown he won off of weight drained Josh Taylor as far as I can tell only two White fighters are fighting, once beaten fringe prospect Antonio Zepeda fights an opponent named Lemir Isom-Riley and Jose the "Sniper" Pedraza is the B side opponent against a peaking Keyshawn Davis.
The weekend is sparse for American promoted cards because of the 1000 pound elephant that is the Super Bowl but Europe still has two cards on various platforms.
PS I stated this before but Hearn talked about being glad to lose the promotional rights to Okolie as he only fought in half full arenas at discounted prices and his purse demands weren't realistic for what he generated at the box office. Even Shalom realized that by having the CBS fight in his hometown for the WBO strap verse being in London with another sparse crowd at a pricier venue.
Updating the results from last night and as I speculated Zepeda was exposed again and stopped in the third round and has to take one of two steps as he either has to go to the minor leagues of boxing and box out of the tank town circuit in the Midwest or the Dixie circuit in the South and go to a city with a gym with a decent trainer that will teach the former football player on how to box and protect his chin and build up better stamina. Or he needs to get on with his life but a man with his dimensions shouldn't lose to a 5'10" 250 pound boxer with a spotty record of his opponent.
Also Jose Pedraza needs to hang up his gloves as he looked shot and chinny and was banged around whenever Davis landed any power combo to his chin with the referee mercifully stopping the fight with Pedraza reeling into the corner while bleeding from a cut and not having focused eyes.
Tomorrow two competing British cards with overlapping time occur. Liam Williams fights Hamzah Sheeraz and will be a B side measuring stick for the British South Asian prospect, this card has White prospects so if I can remember to tune I could comment on the card. Also Hearn promotes an White Brit main event 130 pounds but as far as I can tell the card is void of other White fighters. The winner of the Hearn card could be set up to fight Joe Cordina with another cross roads type win.
PS2 Ryan Garcia has signed to fight Haney for Haney's 140 world title and I found out why Haney was so eager to fight Garcia and it's because Garcia made 40 million dollars last years in purses and he was only the challenger against "Tank" Davis and has never won more than an interim belt in any weight division. In other words he is box office gold.
The fight will be in Las Vegas so the speculation of Saudi Arabia hosting the fight was idle chatter as the Saudi's could have bought the site fee rights if they wanted to but decided to pass even after lobbying from Oscar and Team Haney. https://fightnews.com/haney-kingry-collide-april-20/158274
Updating the Saturday afternoon British cards and in the main event of the Frank Warren card Liam Williams was violently stopped in the first round by the freakishly long Hamzah Sheeraz. The veteran never got going and while not collapsing to the canvas he was probably saved from a violent knock out at some point in the second round as he didn't know what corner to go to after the corner threw in the towel after the second knock down and had a glazed over look in his eyes.
Sheeraz will be a problem if an opponent lets him fight to his dimensions and lets him extend his arms. Williams could never adjust to the stark reach difference and was at the end of his punches but I maintain that the South Asian prospect/contender won't be able to take what he dishes out as he is built similar to Thomas Hearns and fighters with that build never can take what they dish out.
Note I missed the Sam Noakes fight as I only watched a pirate copy of the Williams fight but it looked like he destroyed his opponent with bodywork coupled with well placed combinations but his opponent wasn't a puncher so he might not have been able to keep Noakes honest. A true litmus test will probably be when Noakes fights an opponent who is a puncher to see what if he can take what he dishes out.
In the Hearn promoted card Reece “The Bomber” Bellotti pulled off a minor upset by beating the previously unbeaten Liam Dillon it looks like off the wire reports that Bellotti out worked the prospect/budding contender and used his superior experience to win the equivalent of a gym war.
Bellotti may be a foil to Cordina or Wood down the line if neither 130 pound fighter doesn't have bigger fights scheduled.
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