With the situation getting sorted out in London, we are in store for a Super Saturday with DAZN, ESPN, and Showtime all delivering terrific shows.
DAZN has four heavyweight fights from London’s O2 Arena featuring former WBA/IBF/WBO unified champion Anthony Joshua (25-3, 22 KOs) against credible late sub Robert “The Nordic Nightmare” Helenius (32-4, 21 KOs), IBF #1 Filip Hrgovic (15-0, 12 KOs) vs. unbeaten Demsey McKean (22-0, 14 KOs), a collision of former world title challengers between Derek Chisora (33-12, 23 KOs) and Gerald Washington (20-5-1, 13 KOs), and “The Romford Bull” Johnny Fisher (9-0, 8 KOs) against Harry Armstrong (5-1-1, o KOs).
ESPN has the must see clash between reigning WBO junior lightweight champion Emanuel Navarrete (37-1, 31 KOs) and former two-division world champion Oscar Valdez (31-1, 23 KOs) at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona. On paper, this looks like an epic matchup. In that vein, Top Rank is bringing in Mexican ring legends Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales for the fight week festivities.
Showtime has a nice card at the MGM National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, headlined by former world champion Emmanuel “Manny” Rodriguez (21-2, 13 KOs) taking on Melvin “Melo” Lopez (29-1, 19 KOs) for the vacant IBF bantamweight title formerly held by Naoya Inoue.
Navarrete – Valdez is a war. I think they’ll stand there and beat the hell out of each other. I got Valdez but I couldn’t care less who won. It should be awesome!
Think with Inoue gone, Rodriguez just might be the best bantamweight in the world. I think he runs through Lopez and maybe he and Santiago move to unify sometime next year.
I think this is a day where the men get smaller as the day goes on! LOL!!! Looking forward to all of it!
lol! You’re right, Pete! Heavies to 130’s to 118’s! Great day of fights!
Maybe I can shed some pounds by watching….although I have not made 118 since the fall of grade 6 so that might be too much! I was actually over 130 before winter that same school year. Tough year! I was not paying attention to any rehydration clauses!
These are the fights I am looking forward to. Not this crap.
Wilder vs Joshua
Fury vs Usyk
USA vs Biden
Get me those 3 fights.
So hoping Joshua vs Helenius turns out to be a McCall vs Lewis 1, Sanders vs Klitschko or Rahman vs Lewis 1 type of fight
Nah,wont happen…Helenius nowhere near as good as all those Underdogs…
I was thinking the same thing: maybe Joshua gets his clocked cleaned by the underdog Helenius.
navarrate all the way this is going to be a war
Something is very obvious on the card promoted by Matchroom Boxing: the fear of another loss from Joshua, because they could have chosen Filip Hrgovic to face him and find a journeyman for Demsey McKean right after the finding in Dylan Whyte. It is not a secret that Filip Hrgovic is a better fighter than Robert Helenius and also an avoided one, but I think Helenius has a chance to create a bigger disaster than the one Andy Ruiz made.