NBCSN: Amir Mansour vs. Frederick Kassi & Vasiliy Lepikhin vs. Junior Jackson RBR

Wake up call for Lepikhin, whatever the outcome is here.

Really his only live body faced in his comeback (after three years on the shelf) was Berridge - who is Aussie domestic level.

Before that he steamrolled a few tomato cans, all via KO1. This was a good learning experience for him and he probably still had a lot of rust to shake off even though his comeback started 19 months ago. (only getting in 7 rounds of work in that amount of time, however)

Before the layoff he was generating some real buzz.

 

Official cards:

Michael Soma 97-93
Tom Schreck 96-94
Ronald McNair 97-93

UD for Vasiliy Lepikhin

 

Biggest victory of Lepikhin's career, followed by Simakov and Berridge.

 

Ronald Cruz vs. Dmitry Mikhaylenko, 10 rounds @ light middleweight

 

It was on quite a while ago. Don't worry - nothing you could've done. It wasn't televised anywhere.

 

He needs to get some more rounds under his belt. Someone like a Yusaf Mack next would be ideal. Then work his way up to a Blake Caparello. Then if he stays busy and passes his tests he can dip his toes into the contention pool and see if he sinks or swims in a year to eighteen months. :good

(may as well, his thirtieth birthday is right around the corner)

 

Did they just call Philadelphia "the other big city in Pennsylvania", other than Bethlehem? :blood

 

Mikhaylenko is getting booed hard.

I forgot Cruz is local.