WBA interim super middleweight champion David Morrell is a 33:1 favorite to retain his belt against Mike Gavronski on Saturday in a FOX telecast from Los Angeles. This bout will be for the now vacant WBA super middleweight title. In the co-feature, comebacking middleweight banger James Kirkland is -278 against Juan Macias Montiel.
On December 31, challenger Kosei Tanaka is a -190 favorite to dethrone WBO super featherweight champ Kazuto Ioka in a brilliant fight to end the year.
On January 2, Ryan “Kingry” Garcia is -310 to defeat Luke Campbell +255 in a bout for the WBC interim lightweight title.
After Kingry-Campbell, things are then kind of quiet oddswise until January 30, when four big fight cards take place.
Artur Beterbiev is 27:1 to beat Adam Deines and retain his WBC and IBF light heavyweight titles.
Oddsmakers expect former world champion Sergey Kovalev to lose against Bektemir Melikuziev. “Bek the Bully” is a -325 favorite.
In a European welterweight title grudge match, David Avanesyan and Josh Kelly are a pick’em fight.
And in “The Battle of the Calebs” IBF super middleweight
champion Caleb Plant is a 33:1 favorite to beat former champ Caleb Truax.
If I understand it correctly, Canelo was the WBA regular supermiddle weight champion and Callum Smith was the super supermiddle weight champion. That means that the fight was a WBA unification of sorts — like Pacquiao – Thurman last year — which means that the REGULAR WBA supermiddle weight championship is now vacant and Morrell and Gavronski will be fighting for it… of course that then means that the interim WBA supermiddle weight championship will then be vacant after Saturday and, surely, they will find a fight to fill that vacancy as soon as possible, because everyone knows you need 4 WBA world champions in as many weight classes as possible.
Thank you clarifying that. I’ve had trouble sleeping wondering how that fight actually affected the SMW landscape…
I know it was keeping you up at night. Happy to be of service my friend!
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