Zaur Magomedalievich Abdullaev vs. Humberto Martínez Suárez

Tomorrow, headlining a Titov/RCC Promotions card in Yekaterinburg. 10 rounds @ light welterweight, in which divisions Abdullaev is rated #2 by the WBC, sitting behind only Luke Campbell. Martínez is unrated by any major org.

Abdullaev is coming off a career best victory over a vaguely shopworn & disinterested Hank Lundy (no robbery; I had it 97-93 Abdullaev). Martínez, a glass cannon in the archetypal Colombian mold and former South American super featherweight champion (in 2011), is on a 7-1-1 (5) run in the last seven years, since his last conclusive pro defeat (against then unbeaten Argentinian prospect Marcelino Nicolás López) - with the sole loss, in fairness, being on an injury ...but on the other hand all of the kayos having come against null-experience riff-raff.

 

Btw, for any longtime boxing heads, if Martínez's name is nagging at you with that slight prickle of familiarity - he was the penultimate opponent that a young Jorge Linares fought during his long homestand in mostly Japan for the first half-decade of his career, before debuting on American soil, just as his initial hype was hitting its peak, in 2006. Linares knocked him out in the 6th.

 

The whole card will be streamed on YouTube from 7am EST.

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