Upcoming fights in the heavyweight division. May. 6.Joseph Parker/Razvan Cojanu Bogdan Dinu/Irakli Gvenetadze 8.Kyotaro Fujimoto/Herman Ene Purcell Eugene Hill/Jonathan Haggler 12.Robert Alfonso/Roberto Santos 13.Marcin Siwy/Tornike Puritchamiashvili 19.Christian Hammer/Zine Eddine Benmakhlouf over 12 rounds for the WBO European heavyweight title.Hammer is number 2 in the WBO rating.Apti Davtaev/TBA and Ali Eren Demirezen/Milos Dovedan on the same card. 20.Gary Cornish/Sam Sexton for the vacant BBBofC British heavyweight title Daniel Dubois/TBA Terrance Dumas(8/0 and had amateur success) will face TBA Chris Norrad(14/0) will face John Mercante over 6 rounds Herve Hubeaux/Sergio Romano 25.Junior Fa/TBA 27.Con Sheehan/TBA June. 2.Tony Yoka will debut against TBA over 6 rounds Naylor Ball/TBA 3.Shannon Briggs/Fres Oquendo Andrey Afonin/TBA Dillian Whyte/Mariusz Wach 4.Samuel Kadje/TBA over 6 rounds.Kadje had some success in the amateur ranks. 10.Terrance Dumas/TBA over 8 rounds 17.Simon Kean/Rogelio Omar Rossi 24.Tomasz Adamek/Solomon Haumono over 12 rounds.
Slow month...Not much in the way of competitive high level matchups... Or competitive fights in general.
I also give Oleksandr Usyk chance to beat Joshua, he has the skill and movement to do that, Evgeny Romanov because of his Nistor like style and, I think Magomed Omarov will knock out Joshua when they meet, it's a long wait because Omarov will compete in next summer Olympics.
Yves Ngabu vs Mirko Larghetti is set for the vacant EBU cruiserweight title in Belgium on the 4 of june
Guys what do you think about the chinese heavies? Will they have some kind of impact in the division or they will be beaten once they face a good opposition? Is it possible for the fans to see a big development in the asian heavyweight scene and suddenly China to host a huge heavyweight fight? I am talking about Zhilei Zhand and Jun Long Zhang.
Well, Zhilei can be champion if he doesn't face Joshua and avoids strong fighters.Zhang's record looks made up.
Zhilei is the better of the two but I doubt he will ever crack the top 5. Chinese HWs will eventually be a force but I don't think these two are it. Just my two cents.