By Mark Eisner: George Kambosos Jr shall be preventing tooth & nail tonight to remain related in his headliner IBF light-weight title eliminator in opposition to Maxi Hughes (26-5-2, 5 KOs) in a twelve spherical combat in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Kambosos’ profession is on the road in opposition to Hughes.
Updates & outcomes of tonight’s card shall be proven under.
Final yr, Kambosos (20-2, 10 KOs) was the man with all of the belts at 135 after his upset win over Teofimo Lopez in 2021.
Sadly for Kambosos, his reign as light-weight champion ended rapidly together with his loss to Devin Haney. Within the rematch in October, Kambosos was overwhelmed a second time in a worse vogue and confirmed that he was incapable of adapting.
High Card @ 10 pm ET
George Kambosos Jr vs. Maxi HughesKeyshawn Davis vs, Francesco Patera
Preliminary card @ 6:10 p.m. ET
Giovani Santillan vs. Erick BoneJeremiah Milton vs. Willie HarveyTroy Isley vs. Antonio ToddAmron Sands vs. Hemi AhioStephan Shaw vs. Joe Goodall
The dwell boxing motion shall be proven on ESPN, ESPN Deportes & ESPN+ beginning at 10 pm ET/7 pm PT. The time of the combat between Kambosos & Hughes will possible be previous 11 pm.
Will Kambosos’ profession finish tonight?
That’s the fear for this combat. If Hughes comes out with an excellent sport plan that has Kambosos confused, there’s a risk that he received’t adapt and can preserve preventing the identical method with out determining find out how to resolve what Maxi is doing.
You bought to marvel if Kambosos has a plan B for tonight’s combat as a result of he’s not proven to have one in previous fights. That’s clearly a coaching subject.
If Kambosos Jr’s coach is failing to adequately put together him for fights like this, he’ll proceed to fail. Apparently, many individuals are giving Hughes no likelihood of profitable tonight, feeling that Kambosos is just too quick and proficient for him. The followers could possibly be improper, and that could possibly be the ultimate nail in Kambosos Jr’s profession.
Keyshawn Davis (8-0, 6 KOs), arguably the true star of tonight’s occasion on ESPN, will tackle Francesco Patera (28-3, 10 KOs) within the co-feature bout.
Davis has latest wins over these fighters:
– Anthony Yigit– Juan Carlos Burgos– Omar Tienda Bahena– Esteban Sanchez
High Rank has been taking it simple with Keyshawn, transferring him slowly like they typically do with prospects. The place you bought to start out worrying is that if he’s nonetheless being matched in opposition to comfortable opposition in his sixth yr as a professional.
We noticed that with Edgar Berlanga, who was by no means stepped up in opposition to high quality opposition earlier than he left the corporate.
