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His Excellency Turki Alalshikh, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Entertainment Authority (GEA), announced a blockbuster World title clash as pound-for-pound superstar Terence Crawford challenges Israil Madrimov for the WBA and WBO interim World Super-Welterweight title on August 3rd sponsored by Visit Saudi, MDL Beast and Red Sea Global at BMO Stadium, Los Angeles. The event will be promoted by Riyadh Season Card, Sela, League 1 and Matchroom Boxing in association with World Of Boxing, TGB Promotions, Golden Boy, Goldstar, Queensberry, Salita Promotions and Warriors Boxing Promotions.

HE Turki Alalshikh said: “We are delighted for Riyadh Season to host its first overseas event in Los Angeles and this fight in the United States is a special one to mark this moment. We want to give people around the world the opportunity to enjoy their own Riyadh Season experience and this is exactly what we hope to achieve by staging this and also future events around the world.”

Eddie Hearn, Matchroom Sport Chairman, said: “This is a fantastic fight between a pound-for-pound great and one of the best World champions in the sport. Terence is a pound-for-pound great and continues to strive to be the very best, but in Israil, he meets a hungry champion that has no intention of relinquishing his title in his first defense – this promises to be one of the fights of the year. The undercard has to be one of if not the best we have ever seen for a US card – get ready for a huge night on August 3 in Los Angeles”.

Crawford (40-0 31 KOs) is gunning to become a Four-Weight World champion as he moves up to 154lbs after conquering the Welterweight division with a stunning KO win over Errol Spence to be crowned the undisputed champion at 147lbs in Las Vegas in July. The Omaha star has already ruled the roost at Super-Lightweight and Lightweight, and now the pound-for-pound great is arrowing in on cementing greatness by claiming honors at a fourth weight.

Madrimov (10-0-1 7 KOs) is the man that stands in Crawford’s way, and the Uzbek champion makes his first defense of his title against the toughest opposition possible after winning the belt in spectacular fashion in his last outing in Saudi Arabia. The 29-year-old took on Magomed Kurbanov for the vacant title in Riyadh in March, and stopped the Russian in five rounds with a dominant performance to continue his impressive unbeaten run in the paid ranks, following a glittering amateur career.

Read more: https://www.ringnews24.com/2024/04/24/terence-crawford-vs-israil-madrimov-los-angeles-card-set/

 

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Really looking forward to Morrell - Kalajdzic.    IMO, Rad is seriously underestimated.  He got robbed against Marcus Brown:  That KD was obviously a slip,  and then Brown hot him when he was down, but the ref did nothing.  If he had won that fight, as he shguld have, he would then have gotten the high profile fights that might have gotten him to the top 5.

 

It's a great test for Morrell,   who looks terrific but has a somewhat limited opponent list to date.

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On 5/1/2024 at 12:01 AM, WelshDevilRob said:

Just been announced that Deontay Wilder vs Jared Anderson will take place on this card. Though, Wilder has to come through unscathed against Zhilei Zhang two months earlier.

 

Wow,  now THAT'S an exciting fight!  -  If Wilder can get his head back into the game.

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What Wilder does for Hearn is Hearn doesn't risk one of his fighters in the 5v5. Wilder wasn't a Hearn fighter until last week, and he won't be after the Zhang fight regardless of the result. Clever. When are the promoters gonna get it? We don't give a shit about them or their companies. We're boxing fans.

If Wilder-Anderson comes off, it's too much too soon for Anderson. Or perhaps TopRank sees the writing on the wall, i.e. Anderson's ceiling isn't all that high. So cash him out. And maybe make a contingency deal with Wilder, and he becomes TopRank's top heavyweight. (Fury isn't TopRank's fighter; he's Queensberry's. TopRank merely controls US broadcast rights.)

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Heavyweight Jared Anderson to fight Martin Bakole on Aug. 3

By Mike Coppinger, ESPN

Jared Anderson, the top American heavyweight champion hopeful, will face his toughest test yet with an Aug. 3 fight vs. Martin Bakole in Los Angeles, it was announced Wednesday.

Anderson (17-0, 16 KOs) was lined up for a bout with former champion Deontay Wilder on the Riyadh Season event headlined by Terence Crawford-Israil Madrimov. However, Wilder suffered a brutal fifth-round TKO loss vs. Zhilei Zhang on Saturday that removed him from consideration.

Now, it's Bakole (21-1, 15 KOs) who will represent the first top-level opponent of Anderson's career. Bakole, 30, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, is ESPN's No. 10 heavyweight. He's the younger brother of former cruiserweight champion Ilunga Makabu.

At 6-foot-4, 250.9 pounds, Anderson, 24, towered over Ryad Merhy, an undersized heavyweight (5-9).

whom he outpointed over 10 rounds in April. That won't be the case against the 6-6 Bakole. who weighed in at 299.5 pounds for his fourth-round TKO of Carlos Takam in December in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Bakole handed Olympic gold medalist Tony Yoka his first loss in May 2022 by majority decision. Bakole's lone defeat came in October 2018 via 10th-round TKO to Michael Hunter. Hunter's only loss came via decision vs. undisputed heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk in an April 2017 cruiserweight title fight.

Anderson's win over Mehry was his first in-ring action since a string of run-ins with the law. Anderson was arrested in February in Michigan after police said he led them on a car chase of more than 6 miles with speeds exceeding 130 mph.

In December, Anderson pleaded no contest to improperly handling firearms in a motor vehicle while an OVI charge was dropped in connection with a November 2023 arrest in Ohio.

The Aug. 3 Riyadh Season card in Los Angeles will be the first outside the Kingdom organized by Turki Alalshikh, chairman of Saudi Arabia's General Entertainment Authority.

In the main event, Crawford will seek a fourth division title in a junior middleweight championship fight vs. Madrimov. Isaac Cruz will defend his WBA junior welterweight title vs. Jose Valenzuela on the undercard, while former heavyweight champion Andy Ruiz meets Jarrell Miller. Vergil Ortiz will fight a replacement opponent after Tim Tszyu was forced to withdraw last week because of a cut on his scalp that hasn't yet healed.

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OMG, this is an exciting fight for me.  Everybody is an Anderson fan,  but I'm also a HUGE Bakole fan.

This will be a classic matador vs bull,  except the bull also has some skills and a lightning fast jab.

 

But this is terrible. I dunno who to root for.

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FWIW -   Bakole tore his shoulder in the 8th round vs Hunter,  (verified)  plus Hunter was at that time a very underrated HW.

 

For those that don't know much about him:

In 2021, he was one of Usyk’s main sparring partners, preparing for the AJ fight.  - And previously to that year, he was a sparring partner for AJ, in several camps. .

FWIW, both AJ and Peter Fury have said that they think Bakole will be the next unified HW champion.

Bakole has a great, fast jab, and he’ll often switch to a lead hook as well.   Excellent defensive footwork, too.   And solid fundamentals.

I love the way he throws that wide right cross, like it was a hook.

Plus uppercuts, body shots, all without diverting his eyes much so as not to telegraph them.  - And always while keeping his head reasonably back & safe. Nice.

And he has HUGE power.    -  After he TKO’d Wach in 8 rounds, (2019)   Wach told the Polish press that Llunga hit him harder than any other fighter ever. - And that includes Povetkin and Wlad.

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His big negative is a questionable gas tank.  This is something that the athletic Anderson might be able to exploit,  taking him into the deep rounds then turning it up.

Gun to my head prediction:  Anderson via late round KO.  - But it would be so sweet if Bakole could take him out first.

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