The main televised boxing action this weekend takes place in London.
The weekend kicks off on Friday at the famed York Hall where WBO #4 middleweight Danny Dignum (13-0-1, 7 KOs) defends his WBO Euro belt against Grant Dennis (17-3, 3 KOs). Also on the card is unbeaten IBF #3, WBA #6, WBO #11 bantamweight Lee McGregor (11-0, 9 KOs) against Diego Alberto Ruiz (24-3, 12 KOs).
The main bout of the week is Saturday at the Alexandra Palace where two-time middleweight world champion Daniel Jacobs (37-3, 30 KOs) meets world-rated John Ryder (30-5, 17 KOs) in a twelve round super middleweight encounter on DAZN (excluding New Zealand and Australia). Jacobs is a narrow -175 favorite.
Rooting for Danny Jacobs, never heard of John Ryder.
Agreed, never seen Ryder. However I look him up on YouTube to see why the odds are slim in favor of Jacob.
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– Looked up John Ryder, (30-5, 17 KOs), on this site and found that he is ranked as a 168 pounder as follows:
– WBC #11
– WBA #4
– WBO #14
Ryder has ended up with this fight because he got kind of robbed against Callum Smith a couple of years ago. I think Ryder was even a last minute back up for Saunders when there were disputes about the ring size against Canelo. He probably deserves another high(ish) profile fight
Like CB said, his biggest claim to fame is that he probably should have beaten Callum Smith. Fine if you think Smith won, but the scores on that fight were hideous. I think Hearn was talking about having him go up to fight Bivol before this fight came up. If Daniel Jacobs is in a good form, he should win. The guy that fought Rosado might have some problems though.