JARED ANDERSON will face the hardest check of his profession to this point when he tackles Martin Bakole on August 3.
The 24-year-old unbeaten heavyweight had been linked to a combat towards former WBC champion Deontay Wilder on the BMO Stadium in Los Angeles however that was dominated out after Zhilei Zhang stopped ‘The Bronze Bomber’ by fifth spherical stoppage final Saturday.
Zhang’s victory contributed to the emphatic 10-0 win for Queensberry over Matchroom in Riyadh through the inaugural 5 vs 5 occasion in one other profitable night time for Turki Alalshikh, Chairman of the Common Leisure Authority. Alalshikh has now introduced collectively varied promoters for his first enterprise into the American boxing market on August 3 the place former undisputed welterweight champion Terence Crawford challenges Israil Madrimov for the WBA super-welterweight title.
Anderson, 17-0 (15 KOs), promoted by High Rank, takes on Scottish-based Congolese heavyweight Martin Bakole, 20-1 (15 KOs) whose personal profession is in want of an enormous combat on an enormous stage. The 31-year-old is thought to be one of many division’s darkish horses and has weighed between 275 and 299lbs in his final three fights which have featured wins over Carlos Takam and Tony Yoka, respectively,
There’ll possible be a big weight distinction on combat night time with Anderson weighing 243, 239 and 251lbs in his final trio of wins towards Charles Martin, Andrii Rudenko and Ryad Merhy, respectively. The Ohio-born contender is tipped as a future world champion and is ranked within the high 5 by the WBC, WBO and IBF whereas Bakole is at the moment the WBA primary contender.
Together with Crawford-Madrimov and Anderson-Bakole the August 3 card is stacked from high to backside with expertise. Former heavyweight champion Andy Ruiz Jr returns towards Jarrell Miller, newly-crowned WBA super-lightweight titlist Isaac Cruz defends his belt towards Jose Valenzuela whereas Cuban sensations David Morrell (light-heavyweight) and Andy Cruz (light-weight) face Radivoje Kalajdzic and Antonio Moran, respectively. An excellent-welterweight firefight between Vergsl Ortiz Jr Tim Tszyu was just lately known as off after it was revealed the cuts Tszyu suffered in his loss to Sebastian Fundora had not healed correctly. It stays to be seen whether or not Ortiz Jr will nonetheless characteristic on the invoice.
