A full schedule of boxing starting on Thursday. I think Mielnicki had better win this fight, or he should consider another career.
June 19: Tokyo (ESPN+)
- Title fight: Brian Norman Jr. vs. Jin Sasaki, 12 rounds, for Norman's WBO welterweight title
- Title fight: Cristian Araneta vs. Thanongsak Simsri, 12 rounds, for the vacant IBF junior flyweight title
- Sora Tanaka vs. Takeru Kobata, 12 rounds, welterweights
- Yuya Oku vs. Reiya Abe, 10 rounds, featherweights
- Ren Ohashi vs. Guangheng Luan, 8 rounds, featherweights
- Yuito Moriwaki vs. Ha So Baek, 8 rounds, super middleweights
- Seiya Yamaguchi vs. Ryosuke Kiuchi, 4 rounds, lightweights
June 21: Newark, New Jersey (ESPN+)
- Vito Mielnicki Jr. vs. Kamil Gardzielik, 10 rounds, middleweights
- Damian Knyba vs. Marcin Siwy, 10 rounds, heavyweights
- Jahi Tucker vs. Lorenzo Simpson, 10 rounds, middleweights
- Brandun Lee vs. Elias Damian Araujo, 8 rounds, junior welterweights
- Norman Neely vs. James Willis, 8 rounds, heavyweights
- Daiyaan Butt vs. Michael Lee, 8 rounds, junior welterweights
- Arjan Iseni vs. Kaine Tomlinson Jr., 4 rounds, light heavyweights
- Muadh Abdus-Salaam vs. Roberto Cantos, 4 rounds, welterweights
- Emmanuel Chance vs. Jose Torres, 4 rounds, bantamweights
- Kahshad Elliott vs. Aidyn Crigger, 4 rounds, junior middleweights
- Jamar Talley vs. Kurt Fleming, 4 rounds, heavyweights
- Dwyke Flemmings Jr. vs. Demian Daniel Fernandez, 8 rounds, junior middleweights
- Lisandra Contreras vs. Montana Weems, 4 rounds, women's bantamweights
June 21: Birmingham, England (DAZN)
- Galal Yafai vs. Francisco Rodriguez Jr., 12 rounds, for Yafai's WBC interim flyweight title
- Shabaz Masoud vs. Peter McGrail, 12 rounds, junior featherweights
- Conah Walker vs. Liam Taylor, 12 rounds, for Walker's Brtitish welterweight title
- Hamza Uddin vs. Johsua Vallejo, 8 rounds, flyweights
- Ibraheem Sulaimaan vs. Brian Phillips, 8 rounds, junior lightweights
- Aaron Bowen vs. Alvaro Godoy, 8 rounds, middleweights
- Pat Brown vs. TBA, 6 rounds, cruiserweights
June 21: Santa Ynez, California (UFC Fight Pass)
- Callum Walsh vs. Elias Espadas, 10 rounds, junior middleweights
- Umar Dzambekov vs. Roamer Alexis Angulo, 8 rounds, light heavyweights
- Iyana Verduzco vs. Celene Roman, 8 rounds, women's featherweights
- Daniel Barrera vs. Basilio Franco, 8 rounds, junior bantamweights
- Gor Yeritsyan vs. Vernon Brown, 8 rounds, welterweights
- Jessica Radtke Maltez vs. Jenelyn Olsim, 4 rounds, women's feather
Vito is fighting a Pole with an undefeated record but his boxing record is filled with questionable opposition and he is a non puncher it should be a win. Kynaba is the semifinal bout, hopefully he isn't fighting the typical fat human punching bag that many heavyweight prospects fight.
The British card has a few White prospects and once again Callum Walsh is hidden away on UFC Fight Pass. Hopefully with White being a front man for the Saudis Walsh can graduate to the new Saudi financed league where more eye balls can see him. Fight Pass is so obscure that streams don't even work on these cards.
Updating the Saturday night card and Damian Kynba is still a work in progress as he clearly was beating his fellow Polish national opponent but he had an opponent who could have made him look spectacular if he did the things that elite large heavyweights do to short 6'1" and 240 pound opponents who aren't elite skills wise. Kynba never punished the fireplug opponent with a heavy jab and let the shorter man burst into his punching zone instead of stepping around him or freezing him in his tracks like Lennox Lewis, Vlad and Vitali did to an art form.
In the end he got a corner stoppage at the end of the 8th round but for a few rounds the commentators were mentioning that Siwas was begging to be stopped as he had a similar look to Tyson against Paul but unlike Paul, Kynba didn't carry his opponent he just didn't have the technical skills to stop him violently.
I missed the Mielnicki fight as the stream I was watching started freezing so I read off of the wire reports he shut out his Polish opponent. Vito could be ready for a fight with a fellow prospect but he is slowly becoming a local hero with a budding fan base so risking a loss could be financial set back for Top Rank.
Mielnicki could be ready for a faded veteran type in his next fight.
PS I missed the British card and the Callum Walsh card less the interim title fight with Yafai getting battered like a pinata by a tough Mestizo from Mexico who was a former minimum weight champion.
