Tomorrow in Nur-Sultan, airing on Khabar TV. SOMEONE'S 0 HAS GOT TO GO! Yerbossynuly was allegedly pretty good in the amateurs - enough to have been invested fairly heavily in and headlining over pedigreed countrymen for a while now - but I've been nonplussed by his efforts in the pros (read through my comments in the RBR of his match with Lukas Ndafuloma for an idea). Samir is the brother of undefeated light heavyweight prospect Bastie Samir, whose name is probably more familiar - and even then only to hardcore followed of the international (and specifically African) scene. This will be Yerbossynuly's third opponent from the Dark Continent in his last five outings, having clunked along to unanimous decisions over Ndafuloma of Namibia in March of last year and Nuhu Lawal of Germany by way of Nigeria this past July. As for Samir, this will be his first time competing outside his native Ghana.
I agree on Yerbossynuly, as you've probably noticed, I haven't done a thread on him yet, and that's for a reason. I've yet to be blown away, or even all that impressed quite frankly. As far as this match goes, I haven't seen Samir fight yet, but I'm just assuming here, based on his resume, Boxrecing it, which is what most people have to do with most African fighters, I doubt he brings much to the table for even an unimpressive well schooled quality amateur to have to deal with. Now watch, he'll bomb him out Indongo style.
Both Akhmedov's, Yeleussinov, Jukembayev, Ashkeyev, Nursultanov and Kulakhmet are all far more impressive, with Alimkhanuly bringing up the rear, two others that don't impress me all that much are Kossobutskiy and Mominov.
