January 21, 2022
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Russell favored over Magsayo

WBC featherweight champion Gary Russell Jr. is a 4:1 favorite to defeat unbeaten challenger Mark Magsayo in the SHOWTIME main event this Saturday at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, NJ.

Lightweight Subriel Matias is 4:1 over Petros Ananyan in their twelve round rematch, and featherweight Tugstsogt “King Tug” Nyambayar is a whopping 25:1 against Sakaria Lukas in the ten-round TV opener.

Conceição-Martinez undercard announced
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  • I will be there and promise a biased, semi-honest, inaccurate, incomplete full report the following day 🙂

  • Seems about right. I could see this being Russell’s last successful defense and Magsayo definitely has a puncher’s chance, but that man gets hit entirely too much.

  • I may check this out, just finding out its in AC. Magsayo dont have the names on his resume but is a amateur standout from Philippines and seems big and strong at this weight. A high risk low reward fought for Russel. Russell has the pedigree to continue to take these challenges at 33.

  • I have not followed Russell’s career and fights, but I believe he has a lot stacked against him:
    – inactivity of 23 months
    – his father/trainer was not in his camp nor will he be in his corner on fight night
    – Gary stated that he enters the fight with an injury
    – He had to loose weight after the official weigh-in

  • Magsayo’s KO win against Ceja in the 10th round came when he was barely but clearly behind on points on all cards. Nothing bad about Ceja, but only two wins of his last seven fights over the last six years. Not the most competitive figther and test for Magsayo.

    Magsayo has clearly a reach-advantage, but is rather easy to target. Russell Jr’s handspeed is not as impressive as it was. He also looked a bit ringrusty angainst Nyambayar and that was two years ago.

    Russell Jr should normally take this one I think, but a combination of age and inactivity makes this one rather difficult to predict.

    I think how Russell Jr has been looking in the gym gives the best prediction.

    Looking forward to this one.

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