Tremendous middleweight contender Christian Mbilli had simply concerning the best night time possible in Shawinigan this night, smashing Britain’s Mark Heffron with a physique shot simply 40 seconds into the primary spherical.
Heffron (30-4-1, 24 KO) got here out throwing left hooks, however the struggle appeared to go away him the second Mbilli (27-0, 23 KO) touched his physique. “Solide” landed some heavy swings alongside the ropes earlier than sneaking in a thudding liver shot that put Heffron down for the depend.
Subsequent up for the unscathed Mbilli, who sits in all 4 sanctioning our bodies’ prime threes however will nearly assuredly by no means get a crack at Canelo, is an August seventeenth showdown with Sergiy Derevyanchenko in Quebec. He’ll once more be a heavy favourite towards the getting old, undersized vet, however Derevyanchenko has some brass ones and is extraordinarily arduous to eliminate, so that would flip into a high quality scrap.
The night’s different struggle of notice noticed Arslanbek Makhmudov (19-1, 18 KO) return to the win column by clubbing Miljan Rovcanin (27-4, 18 KO) into submission, sending Rovcanin by way of the ropes within the first earlier than taking him out with a chopping proper late within the second. Rovcanin wasn’t any kind of check and advised us little or no about whether or not Makhmudov has grown from final December’s beatdown by the hands of Agit Kabayel, however because the announcers stated on the printed, there’s a good probability this will get him one other stint on a Saudi present.
