Cruiserweight and Heavyweight thread.

A useful cruiserweight fight (and how often do we get to say that recently?) is scheduled for December 2nd in Florida when undefeated cruisweight prospects Brandon Glanton (17-0-0) and David Light (19-0-0) will battle in a 10 round fight that will provide the Main Event for the card.

 

Di Bella entertainment reported on Monday that they have added a 4 round fight featuring USA prospect Fernely Feliz Jr (3-0, 3 KOs) to their November 22nd "Broadway Boxing" card. His opponent will be Cameron Graham (2-1, 2 KOs). Graham is roughly the same size and age as Feliz Jr and has been doing double-duty between boxing and MMA and is very, very active. His lone boxing loss was a stoppage at the hands of another MMA fighter in his debut.

 

I know, but I still ranked it.

 

There may some truth to this, not Dychko is not a marketable heavyweight with makes making matches for him somewhat difficult but he no destroyer type. Who is your option should fight him?

 

Richard Riakporhe vs. Krzysztof Glowacki is in the works for January.

 

The WBA has Dychko ranked at #15, despite fighting poor opposition. This tells me that somebody important thinks Dychko is probably marketable.

Dychko is in a tough sort of position because he's co-promoted and I think he's based out of Kazakhstan and one of his promoters is in the USA. I don't think either of his promoters can put together much of a purse.

There are two ways I think they can move forward:

• Option 1: Lay low, avoid stepping up, stay active as a camp fighter for contenders, and just hope that WBA ranking gets him named for a voluntary.
• Option 2: If you're going to step him up - do it aggressively to try to capture some buzz. If you got this route, try to line up a fight with Sergey Kuzmin. AFAIK, Kuzmin isn't ranked right now and he's 35 and I don't think he's seen a good payday in two years. Sure there's risk here but Dychko is 32. Worst case he takes an L, loses his zero, and he'll probably get more fights because opponents won't be terrified of him.

 

Bridger is WBC which has now banned all Russian fighters. It could have been a lifeline but there is nothing down that road for him.

 

Maybe his promoter can pay the WBA ( Don King paid for them the rank Bryan #1! ) but he is as you say stuck. A fight with Kuzman makes sense.

 

Michael Wallisch has agreed to next face Arslanbek Makhmudov on Dec 16.

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I liked this ... basically because it's going ahead.

If the Kossobutskiy fight takes place down the track, that's the one that matters.

 

Wallisch will probably lay down as soon he gets hurt, but there's a small chance it will be interesting for a few rounds if he's up for it.

 

In all honesty... I don't think that guy would have done any better than Wallisch going to do, the only thing that made it more interesting was his 0. Wallisch while undefeated looked much better as a prospect, and actually probably had at least the skills to go somewhere if his heart was in it.

 

KO win coming for Big Mak.

 

USA heavyweight prospect Sean Bey (7-0, 7 KOs) will face his first significant opponent when he takes on durable journeyman Terrell Jamal Woods (28-55-9, 20 KOs) in a 4 round context on a CES Boxing Card on November 19th.

I've been aware of Bey for awhile (being from New England, myself) but held off on mentioning him in this thread until he started facing meaningful opponents. He's 33 years-old (seems like every HW prospect is 33 years-old, doesn't it?) and stands 6' 4". He tends to weigh in at 220 lbs or just under and if you squint - he looks a bit like Tony Yoka's very-slightly-smaller stunt double.

Bey has had an interesting road to this point. In 2012 he was ranked the #4 USA amateur in his division (not sure which one). He was invited to the trials but didn't win an Olympic sport. He then exited the sport, got in some trouble, and survived Stage 4 cancer...before re-entering boxing. Along the way he managed to slip in a short-lived MMA career.

Anyhow, Woods is a good match for him. But I'm slightly disappointed about the 4 round duration. This is mostly because Woods tends to become progressively more dangerous after the first 3-4 rounds.

Assuming he gets past Woods, then he should go straight to calling out fellow CES stablemates Joe Cusumano & Cassius Chaney. He's already 33, after all.