Not seeing anything that looks very appetizing. We'll see some lamb to the slaughter fights, but nothing meaningful. The last few months have been filled with big fights so some down time is understandable.
Mohamedi has gone threw a slew of eliminators to get to BHOP, and now KOvalev. While the it appears a lamb to slaughter fight, he is a top 10 LHW but since getting his mandate, he's fought 2 nobodies, when he should have been fighting top 20s/30s if he was looking to stay busy. :good
July 11 Donnie Nietes vs Francisco Rodriguez 18 Scott Quigg vs Kiko Martinez Arthur Abraham vs Robert Stieglitz 25 Sergey Kovalev vs Nadjib Mohammedi August 1 Danny Garcia vs Paulie Malignaggi 14 Antonio Tarver vs Steve Cunningham September 19 Andy Lee vs Billy Joe Saunders
Lee vs. Saunders and Quigg vs. Martinez are probably the most interesting of those. Still nothing to get very excited about.
I just noticed boxrec now allowes to list 4-star bouts: http://boxrec.com/titles?star=4 There are some decent fights. Apart from Abraham Stieglitz and Kovalev Mohammedi, some fights I will watch: Teper vs Price Badou Jack vs Groves Tarver Cunningham Huck Glowacki
Garcia needs to look good, he fluffed his lines against Herrera (loss), Salsa was a complete circus, Peterson had a case for a draw, now if he screws up against Malignaggi he'll find it difficult to recover back to the heights of his old timer circuit in Judah and Morales, his impressive Khan stoppage and razor thin classic with Matthysse.
Was about to come here and say Nietes/Rodriguez is a good fight. Too bad no one pays attention to the smaller weights.
