Julian Taige "J-Rock" Williams returns!

Friday at the Atlantic City Showboat Hotel, eight-rounder, opponent TBA.

He is on a rough patch of form since upsetting & deflowering Jarrett Hurd nearly five years ago. Since then he is 1-3 and without an important victory since - but was very much in the fight with Carlos Adames prior to an iffy referee stoppage this past June.

I think the thirty three year old can still be a dark horse player at MW. Not exactly stacked with talent, Charlo and the Kazakhs aside (neither Brit is very special, nor even close to p4p best in their own families) and buddy's still got fire in his belly.

 

I think he might not even be main eventing (a women's fight is). Very low-key and humble comeback. Probably won't be much more than a warm body by way of competition. Guessing he'll smash somebody with a quick KO and look to rack up another victory or two ASAP before contending again.

 

That's the thing, there isn't much of a higher level to speak of, is there? Beefy and CEJ are now officially equals before God until they rubbermatch, and above them? Charlo, Alimkhanuly, Mersultanov, and....? Adames is pretty exemplary of the most dangerous 160 can offer elsewise at the moment and J-Rock hung pretty tough with him.

 

48 hours out from weigh-ins, hopefully they're at least thinking about picking out an opponent.

 

That wouldn't be very J-Rock. That would be more J-elevator-muzak.

 

34 year old Argentinian light welterweight southpaw journeyman Gustavo David "The Puppy" Vittori.

https://boxrec.com/en/box-pro/619733

Preeeeetty safe.

 

Woof. GDV wasn't even all that successful on the Argie domestic scene (best result was managing a draw with Gabriel Fernando Puñalef Calfin) and literally every time he stepped up to international competition he got crunched. Ten stoppage defeats in all.

He's only a year older and half-inch shorter than J-Rock but this feels like an insane mismatch belying those numbers. I'm really hoping for a merciful KO1/2, for both poor Vittori's sake and that of Williams' image...because going a full eight here hurts his progress, badly.

 

Waiting to hear from the promoter if they're going to get a stream up on YouTube or FB or anything.

https://www.facebook.com/msp.promotions.llc.us

 

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This seems...more than a little shady.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?st...uSwEPSCtNkl&id=61555220380151&mibextid=2JQ9oc