Upcoming heavyweight bouts that have been confirmed so far.

The division is quite lively thanks to the Saudis.

 

My view on the fight quality below .....

Kubrat Pulev vs. Mahmoud Charr
LOL

Solomon Dacres vs. David Adeleye
Meh

Lawrence Okolie vs. Hussein Muhamed
Terrible

Richard Torrez Jr vs. Isaac Munoz Gutierrez
Fun fight



Jose Larduet vs. Bohdan Myronets
Who ?

Granit Shala vs. Daniel Dietz
Who ?

Dillian Whyte vs. Ebenezer Tetteh
LOL

Oleksandr Usyk vs. Tyson Fury
Great fight

Moses Itauma vs. Demsey McKean
Good fight

Ivan Dychko vs. Vitaly Kudukhov
Just retire Dychko

Derek Chisora vs. Otto Wallin
Weird fight

 

This is not an impressive collection of bouts IMO.

The Saudi era has produced a whole lot of rumors that end up going nowhere and very few actual fights besides the uni bouts. Charr v Pulev and Wallin v Chisora are fights that would have been good 5 years ago. Knowing Charr hes set to tear his achilles in the next few hours.

This is a tuneup for Okolies first real HW fixture whatever that ends up being.

 

Jalolov is fighting someone just for the sake of it next year sometime, also.

Huni has a stay busy fight too.

 

Ibeabuchi vs Ayman Faouk Abbas

Gurgan Hovhanisyian vs Patrick Mailata

Julio Cesar La Cruz vs Jeison Truncosa

Bakhodir Jalalov vs David Spilmont

Michael Huner vs TBA

Mourid Aliev vs Davide Brito

 

Oh please, we have had plenty of contenders and top 10 guys going at it in recent years. Not to mention the undisputed fight.
A few years back, barely anyone at the top faced off against each other.

 

Dietz is a 6'10" German cloddhopper that some over there have big hopes for because he is actually German. He's going nowhere, though.

Larduet is a 34 year-old Cuban who was a decent amateur and won bronze at LHW in 2009 at the World championships. I think he has a brother two fights, too, but I might be thinking of someone else.

 

The uni fights weren't a priority to me and I'm annoyed by both rematches holding up fights I actually want to see but I mentioned them. Right now I google Artur Beterbiev wanting to get news about other prospective fights and everythings about Jake Paul. I don't think thats very healthy.

They aren't doing terrible and they haven't made things worse. But they do not deserve praise for turning the sport around. They gave a truckload of money to a historically difficult and dysfunctional champion to fight another champion. Okay? What exactly have the Saudis done to make things better than they were before their arrival?


PS-Dear Saudis please don't kill me

 

Saudis saving boxing again

 

Johnny Fisher vs Dave Allen on the Fury Usyk undercard.

 

Don't forget Jalalov who is making a major step up to fight some French bloke in Feb.

 

I was talking about the heavyweight division, no idea why you would bring up Beterbiev. Heavyweight right now is better than it was for a long time. There isn´t a lot of great talent there, and there are too many rematches(I HATE rematches at heavy), but at least the guys are fighting each other.
We had the undisputed fight.
Joshua fought/got murdered by Dubois.
Wilder vs Zhang
Kabayel vs Sanchez
Zhang vs Parker
Bakole vs Anderson

Just a few that immediately jumped to my mind. And now Dubois might be fighting Parker, which is an excellent fight.

 

That is a depressing list of fights for supposedly boxing's premier division

 

This list is beyond pathetic. one fight worth watching for free, the rest they should pay you.