There’s an ideal huge bonanza of world title motion in the present day throughout the UK, with playing cards airing from Manchester, Belfast, and Bournemouth, all headlined by world title fights.
We’ll be right here ranging from 2 pm ET with stay protection of all that goes on, and we’ve obtained some fast capsules on the reveals if you happen to scroll down, however the principle occasions are:
Manchester (DAZN): Mauricio Lara vs Leigh Wooden, rematch, featherweights, 12 rounds, for the vacant WBA title, which solely Wooden can win
Belfast (ESPN+): Luis Alberto Lopez vs Michael Conlan, featherweights, 12 rounds, for Lopez’s IBF title
Bournemouth (FITE+): Lawrence Okolie vs Chris Billam-Smith, cruiserweights, 12 rounds, for Okolie’s WBO title.
We’ll be holding tabs on all three playing cards and simply type of floating round and telling you what’s taking place on this stream, plus in fact we’ll have dialogue down within the feedback part:
From Manchester (DAZN, 2:00 pm ET)
The principle occasion between Mauricio Lara (26-2-1, 19 KO) and Leigh Wooden (26-3, 16 KO) has frankly had numerous wind taken out of its sails with Lara not making weight, and the WBA featherweight title solely being on the road for Wooden to try to regain after dropping it to Lara in February.
Elsewhere on the cardboard: Jack Catterall (26-1, 13 KO) returns after an extended absence to face Darragh Foley (22-4-1, 10 KO) in a 10-round bout at 140; Terri Harper (13-1-1, 6 KO) defends her WBA 154 lb title towards Ivana Habazin (21-4, 7 KO); Danny Ball (12-1-1, 5 KO) and Jamie Robinson (15-5-2, 4 KO) meet for the English title at 147, which isn’t the British title, British is greater than English; and 130/135 prospect Aqib Fiaz (11-0, 1 KO) seems to attain a second straight stoppage win, perhaps, towards Costin Ion (10-3-2, 5 KO) in an eight-rounder.
From Belfast (ESPN+, 1:30 pm ET)
(Additionally airing on BT Sport in the UK)
Luis Alberto Lopez (27-2, 15 KO) makes the primary protection of his IBF featherweight title, gained final December towards Josh Warrington in Leeds, as he goes into one other hostile setting in Belfast to face Michael Conlan (18-1, 9 KO), who’s trying nonetheless to win his first world title at age 31, 14 and a half months after falling quick towards Leigh Wooden.
Elsewhere on the cardboard: Anthony Cacace (20-1, 7 KO) defends what he and Queensberry will name a world title at 130 towards Damian Wrzesinski (26-2-2, 7 KO), and Nick Ball (17-0, 10 KO) takes on Ludumo Lamati (21-0-1, 11 KO) in an intriguing featherweight matchup with WBC rankings juice at stake. Padraig McCrory, Pierce O’Leary, Kurt Walker, and others in motion.
From Bournemouth (FITE+, 2:00 pm ET)
(Additionally airing on Sky Sports activities in the UK)
Lawrence Okolie (19-0, 14 KO) defends his WBO cruiserweight belt on the highway towards Chris Billam-Smith (17-1, 12 KO). It’s a fast turnaround for Okolie, who simply beat David Mild two months in the past, and a primary world title shot for fan favourite Billam-Smith, a former European champion and nonetheless the Commonwealth champ for now.
Elsewhere on the cardboard: Lee Cutler (12-1, 7 KO) takes on Stanley Stannard (10-0, 4 KO), plus Michael McKinson (24-1, 3 KO) seems to win his third straight lower-level for some cause combat, Sam Eggington (33-8, 19 KO) vs Joe Pigford (20-0, 19 KO), and extra.
