<em>By Ray Wheatley — World of Boxing</em>
WBO#13 heavyweight Dempsey McKean (17-0, 11 KOs) returns to ring action on Saturday against American Jonathan Rice (13-4-1, 9 KOs) over ten rounds with the vacant IBF Intercontinental title and the vacant WBO Asia Pacific title up for grabs at the Star on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. McKean, 29, standing 6’6” and boxing from the southpaw stance in coming off a three round knockout of Englishman Scott Belshaw in November 2019. Rice, 33, standing 6’5” and boxing from orthodox stance is coming off a round one knockout of Christian Mariskal in August 2019. Promoter Angelo DiCarlo.
I remember watching Belshaw got KO’d by Tyson Fury years ago. Mckean shouldn’t be fighting guys like Belshaw and Rice with a WBO ranking of 13.
Completely agree
Somebody tell me how McKean is ranked in the top 15 Heavyweights in the world?! He’s fought absolutely nobody. His best win is probably a faded Victor Oganov who was once a Super Middleweight contender about 10 years ago.
His opponent is nothing great either with his most notable result a points loss to Olympic champion Tony Yoka in his second fight!!
Shame on the IBF for sanctioning this for their Inter Conti title. A farce…
Dempsey WHO!!??