Denys Yuriyevych Berinchyk vs. José Patricio Sánchez Ramos

Tomorrow at the Ice Palace. WBO International lightweight title at stake, 5th defense of Berinchyk.

Sánchez is, believe it or not, actually world ranked by the WBO - just barely, cracking its top 15 in the bottommost spot (probably by virtue of snatching their Latino belt at 135lbs last year versus Javier Clavero). Berinchyk himself is #3, with only Vasyl Lomachenko and George Kambosos, Jr. ahead of him in line to face champ Teófimo López. Some more fun interesting factoids about Sánchez that you almost certainly didn't know are: 1) his nickname "Pato Lucas" is Spanish for "Daffy Duck". Yes, as in the Looney Tune. and 2) despite allegedly being a 36 year old Chilean pugilist, you'd swear he was a 64 year old sannyasin, or the long-lost brother of Gurdeep Roy: https://boxrec.com/media/images/thumb/d/db/Jsanchezr.jpeg/200px-Jsanchezr.jpeg.

The co-main event sees Khasan Uvaysovich Baysangurov taking on a soft touch stay busy opponent in Oleksandr Rubchev - his third consecutive soft touch stay busy opponent since Rob Brant dealt Baysangurov his first professional defeat, stopping him in round 11 of a WBA title bid over two years ago. Not sure why they're babying him like this. Ditto his brother Khuseyn, who also lost his zero (in 2018, against Aram Amirkhanyan) and has had three relatively easy assignments since. Wasting their primes stagnating - which to a lesser extent could also be said of Berinchyk, who, although getting to be overdue for a step up from "pretty good" types like Arakawa or Simion and is taking a slight backward step here, is at least consistently taking on ranked competitors.

 

Couple of things you should know about Sloth from The Goonies:

1. He's a Franciscan monk now
2. He's stoked for some elder abuse.

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