Anthony Yarde is set with the arduous task of dethroning the world’s unified light-heavyweight champion, Artur Beterbiev, on Saturday night.
As fans eagerly awaited to see such a great champion on British soil, those who were unable to attend were delighted to learn that the event would not be pay-per-view.
Undercard full preview
There are many Queensbury prospects appearing on the card. Khalid Ali (4-0) is set to hit the ring earlier tonight, when he faces Croatian Ivica Gogosevic (12-44-2) in the super middleweight division. This will be Ali’s fourth match and the young Anglo-Bangladesh will try to do what Aaron McKenna couldn’t and get a goal against the 38-year-old, who has lost his last 32 matches.
National amateur champion and Hamzah Sheeraz’s cousin, Umar Khan (5-0), will also go on to make a triumphant start to his professional career. The 20-year-old bantamweight superstar has not signed up for a break since turning pro nearly two years ago and suffered a scare against Engel Gomez last year, where he was eliminated in the second round. Khan will face India’s Sandeep Singh Bhatti (8-5), who overtook Isaac Lowe in December.
Bhatti also brought in Charles Frankham (6-0) as referee last year, who will appear on the card alongside his brother Joshua Frankham (6-0). The Frankham brothers come from a proud ‘fight family’ – not only a cousin of WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, but also the grandson of Johnny Frankham, who famously fought and knocked out Muhammad Ali in 1971.
Charles fought Joshua Ocampo (8-10-4), a Colombian featherweight super boxer who lost eight rounds on the spin after a good start to his career. Meanwhile, welterweight Joshua faced off against Joe Hardy (2-4), who claimed his second career win in November, before losing 38-39 three weeks later to Connor Meanwell.
Masood Abdullah (7-0) returns to the ring to face Lesther Lara of Nicaragua (17-13-2) in the super featherweight division. Abdullah has stopped five opponents in his career so far and will be looking to add to that record against an opponent who has been knocked out in two of his last four games.
Meanwhile, welterweight Sean Noakes (3-0) had an impressive start to his career, becoming the sixth man to stand in the way of the enduring MJ Hall. Noakes played against 20-year-old Colombian tennis player Santiago Garces, who drew with Joshua Ocampo. He was undefeated in the first seven fights but lost twelve after that.
Exciting cruiser prospect, Tommy Fletcher (3-0) has had a perfect start with three kills since his debut in July and one take out the opponent of the year in the final match against Jiri Krejcl. The 21-year-old’s prowess will be tested for real on Saturday night when he takes on famously enduring rival Darryl Sharp (7-96-1). Sharp suffered just three knockout losses in its ninety-six losses and appeared to have faced all the British prospects between the middleweight and cruiser classes, with Liam Williams being one of the three. Doctor has knocked him down so far.
Willy Hutchinson was scheduled to face Emil Markic for the vacant WBO intercontinental heavyweight title, but the Scottish boxer unfortunately had to withdraw due to illness. Instead, one of the highlights of the card below will be the much-anticipated debut of 18-year-old Moses Itauma, who came out with much praise and high expectations. He aims to beat Mike Tyson’s record and become the youngest heavyweight champion.
Itauma will take on Marcel Bode of the Czech Republic (2-1), who is just five innings in three matches, with an early knockout win in the first two, against the same opponent, before being stopped. again in November before Habib Vuqiterna of Austra.
Tonight will be an important night for the Itauma family, as Moses’ brother Karol continues to make waves in the light-heavyweight division. Karol Itauma (9-0) challenges the vacant WBC international light-heavyweight belt against Argentina’s Ezequiel Osvaldo Maderna (October 28), who played against the head of the event, Beterbiev and far ahead of the challenger. IBF belt, Jose Uzcategui . Despite a resume featuring such big names, Maderna has lost four of his last five matches and Itauma will be hoping to add seven knockouts to his career and climb the WBC leaderboard with a win.
The bottom division’s final match was for the world title, as Artem Dalakian (21-0) defended the WBA Flyweight title against David Jimenez of Costa Rica (12-0). The challenger claimed the best win of his career in his final match, defeating Ricardo Sandoval by majority decision on Garcia-Fortuna. Jimenez will love his chances in what looks like a theoretical 50/50 match against an inactive champion in the Dalakian, with the Ukrainians fighting only once in nearly three years. This will be Dalakian’s sixth world title defense since winning the title in 2018, but it is only his second fight and first title defense outside of his hometown.
- Artem Dalakian vs David Jimenez
- Karol Itauma vs Ezequiel Osvaldo Maderna
- Charles Frankham vs. Joshua Ocampo
- Masood Abdullah vs Lesther Lara
- Umar Khan vs Sandeep Singh Bhatti
- Sean Noakes vs. Santiago Garces
- Tommy Fletcher vs Darryl Sharp
- Joshua Frankham vs. Joe Hardy
- Khalid Ali vs Ivica Gogosevic
- Moses Itauma vs Marcel Bode
Main event preview
Then it was time for the main event, with Artur Beterbiev (18-0) looking to defend his seventh IBF world title and first since becoming a three-belt unified champion.
Despite hopes of an undisputed fight for the winner, against Dmitry Bivol, it looks like Callum Smith will be waiting for the winner instead.as long as he’s on top when he’s at the top at Liverpool on March 11. Anthony Yarde (23-2) will aim to make Smith’s world championship an all-English affair and overcome one of the country’s greatest games by beating a dominant champion so in Beterbiev, who knocked out all eighteen of his opponents during his professional career.
Yarde is no stranger to self-defeating, scoring 22 kills in his 23 wins, and will be hoping that Sergey Kovalev’s experience of challenging the WBO world title in 2019 will help relieve any tension. Defeat against Lyndon Arthur in 2020 seemed to derail Yarde’s title ambitions, however, three consecutive knockouts, including Arthur’s fourth-round loss in their rematch, secured him the spot. obligatory challenger. The much-anticipated fight will end in the long haul, with two powerful punchers meeting in the middle of the ring, and will be an exciting end for a giant Frank Warren card.
How to watch
The event will be available to watch on Sports BT For UK fans, and those in the US can watch the card via a live stream on ESPN+. The prelude to the main card is scheduled to take place around 7pm GMT (2pm ET), with Beterbiev and Yarde entering the ring at around 10pm GMT (5pm ET).
