UK Fighters title updates: Macklin vs Barker purse bids due today

Looks like newly crowned WBO super featherweight champion Ricky Burns (29-2, 7 KOs) will make his first defense against #3 rated Matt Zegan (42-5-2, 21 KOs) on December 4 or December 11 in London. Apparently the contract was signed today and the fight will go ahead despite Zegan’s questionable draw with Boris Berg (3-0-1, 2 KOs) in a junior welterweight bout on Sunday in Berlin. Berg was originally announced as the winner of that bout, however two days later the result was controversially changed to a draw by the German Boxing Association.



Looking at Zegan's record, he's had some quite attrocious losses, how has he come to have been ranked 3 by the WBO?

 

I was expecting an easy defence but this is a bit extreme. Don't recognise one boxer he has beaten. Hopefully Frank stacks the undercard.

Jim Watt & whoever is with him is going to have a hard time building this up.

 

Makes me almost wish it was Appleby he was fighting next.

 

lets just hope it's a rumour

 

Fair enough after a hard earned win he deserves to milk a few defences out of the title but was this guy really the best they could get?

 

bollocks he gets to milk a few easy defences.
im a ricky burns fan but i disagree with this view and i dont care if thats what most fighters do.
if this guy is an opponent its pretty ridiculous


then again...what had burns done recently to deserve a shot...? and look what he did!

 

was the mag7 a ppv in germany? cos AA was there as a pundit and as we know...germany has such a massive population and a big interest in boxing now...maybe warren did some good business in germany and is building contacts, to have more jerrys on his shows in the future

 

That makes a bit more sense then. Cheers Rob :good

 

Nice about time this came off. What's with the avatar again Rob?