Dmitry Bivol 🇷🇺 vs Malik Zinad 🇱🇾 for IBO and WBA light-heavyweight belts
Zhilei Zhang 🇨🇳 vs Deontay Wilder 🇺🇸 at heavyweight
Daniel Dubois 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 vs Filip Hrgovic 🇭🇷 for IBF interim heavyweight title
Hamzah Sheeraz vs Austin Williams 
Raymond Ford vs Nick Ball for WBA featherweight title
Willy Hutchinson vs Craig Richards

I’m titling this Zhang-Wilder because the official headliner is not competitive: it was supposed to be Bivol-Beterbiev, which would have been one of the best fights of the year, but it isn’t.

Zinad is an undefeated Libyan with about a 4% chance of causing the upset and making a name for himself. Both are undefeated. Interestingly, Bivol’s past nine winds are all by UD, but I’m still saying Bivol by TKO tonight.

Odds are pretty close in Wilder-Zhang but I’m calling Wilder by knockout because Zhang isn’t that quick, isn’t a defensively brilliant boxer. So I think Deöntay can find the punch. Zhang’s advantage is that everyone knows how to beat Wilder now, there’s a formula to it.

I watched Nick Ball’s scrap against Rey Vargas. Ball is five feet two inches tall and a dirty fighter. Powerful puncher.

Austin Williams is a well-rounded middleweight but I haven’t seen him really tested. I saw him against Armel Mbumba-Yassa from Congo but that was a mismatch.


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