This should be an easy tune up fight for Yvan Mendy who has mixed it at world level versus numerous opponents. Antin has become a journeyman in the last two years and in his two fights outside of Argentina hes lost both.
Yvan Mendy is decent technically and while hes not a world class puncher he has enough to keep people wary. He has a few good wins over Luke Campbell and Francisco Patera and in 52 fights has never been stopped.
Miguel Cesario Antin
I think Yvan Mendy should be able to use his superior boxing skills and experience to stop Antin in the seventh or eighth round.
This should be a competitive bout between rising Super Middleweight contender Kevin Lele Sadjo and gatekeeper Ronny Landaeta. The fight will be contested over ten rounds in the Super Middleweight division.
Kevin Lele Sadjo is powerful and clearly has a lot of physical strength as well. He keeps a high guard up and is defensively responsible. I like his work to the body and how consistent he is with it. I think hes competent technically but his style is much more seek and destroy rather than attempting to out box his opponents. His chin and stamina have looked good so far though this is the biggest test of his career.
Ronny Landaeta is a solid fighter who has lost in his two fights outside of Spain though both were close defeats. He’s a come forward fighter for the most part with a good gas tank. Hes average technically and doesn’t have the punching power of Sadjo though is still a decent puncher himself. He is 37 years old and hasn’t been active in recent years so may have some rust he needs to shake off in this fight.
Ronny Landaeta
I think Kevin Lele Sadjo will win by knockout in the second half of the fight after a competitive opening. As the rounds go on his power and body work will break down the older Landaeta enough for him to get a stoppage.
Eric Donovan who showed how good of a fighter he is during the Matchroom fight camp is having a stay busy bout in Belgium. Rafael Castillo is a journeyman and shouldn’t provide any threat to Donovan who has excellent technical skills. It’s likely that next year Donovan will fight on a few Matchroom cards as Eddie Hearn stated that he would bring him back for more fights due to how good of a performance he put in even if he did lose in the end.
I expect this to be a quick KO victory for Gonzalez who is a credible fighter at Light Heavyweight. His three losses have come against good competition and other than that hes breezed through his opponents. Alex Theran gets knocked out quickly when he steps up in competition and I expect the same thing to happen here.
Alex Theran
I think Gonzalez will show there are levels to boxing and stop Theran who hasn’t shown any durability when he steps up his level of competition. I’m not sure how far Gonzalez can go in the division but he may be able to get himself a few pay days as an opponent for top Light Heavyweights.
This isn’t a hard fight to predict because at this point of their respective careers they are levels apart. Billy Joe Saunders hasn’t looked great at Super Middleweight but has still looked better than Martin Murray who has looked average and gone the distance with journeymen.
Billy Joe Saunders is at his best a slick southpaw with great pure technical boxing skills. He’s not a big puncher but hes got enough to get by at world level with. The biggest set back for him is his out of the ring activity’s which have led to him being suspended from the sport along with having to issue countless apologies. In between fights hes admitted he doesn’t train and just piles on the weight which isn’t good for any boxer much less a world champion. I’d comfortably back any top 20 Super Middleweight against him due to his recent bad form but unfortunately Martin Murray isn’t close to being a top 20 Super Middleweight.
Martin Murray in his prime was a good fighter who should have been world champion at least once but was robbed of his big moment. He’s looked slow in his recent fights and you can tell he just doesn’t have it anymore. Every attribute he once had has decreased significantly after a long career combined with being 38.
Martin Murray
I expect Billy Joe Saunders to win this fight by either decision or late stoppage depending on how hard hes trained and whether hes motivated to prove worthy of a Canelo fight. I can’t back a washed up fighter to beat a world champion in their prime especially not someone with Saunders’s style who can comfortably out box him using his youth for twelve rounds.
This is an eliminator for the WBA Lightweight world title over twelve rounds between two rising contenders. James Tennyson is one of the most exciting fighters in boxing right now because of his kill or be killed style of fighting. Josh O’Reilly has been slowly progressing in Canada as more of a pure boxer who fights off the back foot.
James Tennyson is an underrated technical fighter as its a lot harder to put together knockouts than people think. He stalks his opponents down and while he does throw a lot of punches he also picks the right spots and doesn’t just mindlessly hit the gloves or shoulders of the opposing fighter. Tennyson is a huge puncher who has carried his power up through the weight classes to lightweight. Similar to a lot of big punchers he can also be vulnerable himself though in the past its mostly been to body shots and I think that was more due to him squeezing himself down in weight rather than a real weakness.
Josh O’Reilly is a good technical boxer who uses his feet decently to box on the back foot around the ring. He’s not a big puncher and will need to box perfectly for twelve rounds to beat Tennyson. I think he keeps his chin a bit too high in the air and often has his hands low which may prove to be his undoing in this fight.
Josh O’Reilly
I think James Tennyson should be able to win this fight by knockout as I don’t think O’Reilly has the power to keep him away for twelve rounds and once O’Reilly starts to wilt Tennyson will jump on him and finish the fight.
This is a bit of a tune up fight for Zach Parker who picked up a career best win versus Rohan Murdock in his last fight. Cesar Nunez has fared well domestically in Spain but when he’s left to fight rising prospects and contenders hes been stopped in relatively quick fashion.
Zach Parker puts his punches together very well and clearly has some pop on them as hes stopped 13 of his 19 opponents. He was consistently hurting Murdock in their fight until he eventually found the stoppage in the 11th round. He showed a good chin and heart in that fight as it wasn’t easy and early on it looked like the fight could go either way. By making adjustments in the hardest fight of his career he showed me hes clearly at least high European level if not a fringe world contender.
Cesar Nunez isn’t too bad technically himself but lacks the combinations and power of Parker. He’s also 35 and in his two biggest fights he was stopped though in his fight with Vincent Feigenbutz he put up a good showing and landed a lot of punches on the German fighter. I don’t think he’ll have the same success against Parker as hes much harder to hit and uses his outside boxing skills a bit more.
Cesar Nunez
I think Zach Parker will win this fight by stoppage in the 5th or 6th round because of his superior power and punch selection. He’s also the bigger younger fighter who is on the rise in his career while Nunez is being used as a bit of stepping stone for young Super Middleweights at this point in his career.
This is a good comeback fight for Courtenay who lost a close fight to Rachel Ball last time out on Matchroom’s fight camp. Norek will be looking to pick up her career best win and stop the current bad run of form shes on.
Shannon Courtenay is a decent technical boxer who seems to have above average power for her weight class. She’s still inexperienced as a pro and that showed in her last fight where after hurting Ball she rushed in and got dropped herself. Her chin and stamina seem fine though she did clearly tire out at the end of her last fight.
Dorota Norek has an interesting style to say the least. She actually runs forward throwing windmill punches until she slams in to her opponents and they clinch. She refuses to use a jab or anything to disguise her punches and beyond the huge volume of punches she throws she isn’t very good honestly.
Dorota Norek
This fight could be fun while it lasts but I think Shannon Courtenay will win by stoppage after timing Norek coming in with her superior technical skills.
This is a great step up fight for Dixon who I believe is a real talent. Angelo Dragone is a good area level fighter and should have got the decision in his only loss to Kristian Touze. The fight is only set for six rounds which is to expected for this stage of Dixon’s career.
I think Done Dixon is the better technical fighter and should be able to box his way towards a six round decision. Dragone isn’t a bad fighter himself and should be tough enough to hang in there and produce some competitive rounds but in the end I think Dixon will be too much for him. Dixon puts combinations together with a real talent for someone thats only 20. He seems to have a bit of power as well and comes on stronger the longer the fight goes on.
Angelo Dragone
I think Donte Dixon will win a decision after six rounds due to having more power and also putting his punches together better. This is a good step up fight for him even if I think he’ll win relatively comfortably.
This should be a straight forward win for Masternak who is on the second fight of his comeback to the sport after briefly retiring and missing all of 2019. He’s a very good fighter who has operated at European and World level in the Cruiser weight division for the better part of a decade. Ulrich is a domestic fighter in Argentina who hasn’t won a fight since 2017 and when he stepped out of Argentina and fought Evgeny Tishchenko lost every round.
I think this fight is a classic example of levels in boxing and in this case Masternak is clearly a few levels above Ulrich who to be fair is tough and durable.
Jose Gregorio Ulrich
Masternak will win this fight by 7th or 8th round knockout due to being the all round better fighter and having fought the much better competition.
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