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August 8: Benghazi, Libya (DAZN)
Mirco Cuello vs. Sergio Rios Jimenez, 12 rounds, for vacant WBA interim featherweight title
Albert Ramirez vs. Jerome Pampellone, 12 rounds, WBA light heavyweight eliminator
Sofiane Oumiha vs. Francisco Fonseca, 10 rounds, lightweights
Josue Francisco Aguero vs. Diego Ortiz Aleman, 10 rounds, junior lightweights
Mike Perez vs. Fernely Feliz Jr., 10 rounds, heavyweights
August 8: Toppenish, Wash.
Maricela Cornejo vs. Natasha Spence, 6 rounds, female middleweights
Andrew Murphy vs. Jeremiah Sierra, 8 rounds, super middleweights
Joshua Juarez vs. Oscar Cortes, 6 rounds, heavyweights
Chris Young vs. Derick Funkhouser, 6 rounds, lightweights
Jovanis Rodgriguez vs. Alvin Welch, 6 rounds, junior middleweights
August 13: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (DAZN)
WBC Grand Prix quarterfinals: heavyweights, middleweights, junior welterweights, featherweights
August 15: Plant City, Fla. (ProBox TV)
Mukhammadkhuja Yaqubov vs. William Foster III, 10 rounds, junior lightweights
Starling Castillo vs. Shinard Bunch, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
Marques Valle vs. Luis Georges, 10 rounds, middleweights
Dominic Valle vs. Iron Alvarez, 8 rounds, junior lightweights
Weljon Mindoro vs. Dormedes Potes, 8 rounds, middleweights
Miguel Mendez vs. Andrew Flamm, 4 rounds, 4 rounds, junior welterweights
Elijah Flores vs. Elijah Vines, 8 rounds, junior middleweights
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August 15: Santa Ynez, Calif. (UFC Fight Pass)
Omar Trinidad vs. Lorenzo Parra, 10 rounds, featherweights
Mizuki Hiruta vs. Naomy Gomez, 10 rounds, WBO women's junior bantamweight title
Abel Mejia vs. TBA, 6 rounds, junior lightweights
Lupe Medina vs. Rubi Gutierrez, 8 rounds, female strawweights
Angel Carrillo vs. DamienBasulto, 4 rounds, junior featherweights
Abraham Morales vs. Nesly Teezile, 4 rounds, junior lightweights
Jonathan Vasquez vs. TBA, 4 rounds, junior lightweights
August 16: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (DAZN PPV)
Moses Itauma vs. Dillian Whyte, 12 rounds, heavyweights
Nick Ball vs. Sam Goodman, 12 rounds, for Ball’s WBA featherweight title
Filip Hrgovic vs. David Adeleye, 10 rounds, heavyweights
Raymond Ford vs. Abraham Nova, 10 rounds, junior lightweights
Hayato Tsutsumi vs. Qais Ashfaq, 10 rounds, junior lightweights
August 16: Gomez Palacio, Mexico
Argi Cortes vs. Andrew Moloney, 12 rounds, IBF junior bantamweight eliminator
August 16: Santa Monica, Calif.
Jaydon Vigil vs. TBA, 8 rounds, junior middleweights
Chantel Navarro vs. Montana Weems, 6 rounds, female bantamweights
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August 20: Sydney, Australia
Nikita Tszyu vs. Lulzim Ismaili, 10 rounds, junior middleweights
Michael Zerafa vs. Mikey Dahlman, 10 rounds, middleweights
Brock Jarvis vs. Sam Beck, 8 rounds, middleweights
Ahmad Reda vs. TBA, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
Jacob Clenshaw vs. Isaias Sette, 5 rounds, welterweights
Brandon Grach vs. TBA, 5 rounds, heavyweights
Jasmine Parr vs. TBA, 6 rounds, female junior bantamweights
August 22: Orlando, Fla. (DAZN)
Jan Paul Rivera vs. Daniel Bailey, 10 rounds, featherweights
Corey Marksman vs. Luis Martinez, 10 rounds, lightweights
Yoelvis Gomez vs. Edwine Humaine, 10 rounds, middleweights
Tayre Jones vs. Alex Rios, 8 rounds, junior welterweights
Elizabeth Oshoba vs. Melissa Oddessa Parker, 8 rounds, female featherweights
August 23: Orlando, Fla. (DAZN)
Yankiel Rivera vs. Angelino Cordova, 12 rounds, for vacant WBA interim flyweight title
Yoenis Tellez vs. Abass Baraou, 12 rounds, for Tellez’s WBA interim junior middleweight title
Lucas Bahdi vs. Roger Gutierrez, 12 rounds, WBA lightweight eliminator
Jamaine Ortiz vs. Steve Claggett, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
Sephanie Han vs. Paulina Angel, 10 rounds, for Han’s WBA women’s lightweight title
Jasmine Artiga vs. Linn Sandstrom, 10 rounds, for Artiga’s WBA women’s junior bantamweight title
August 23: Altrincham, England (DAZN)
Jack Rafferty vs. Mark Chamberlain, 12 rounds, for Rafferty’s British and Commonwealth junior welterweight titles
August 23: Fortitude Valley, Australia
Jake Wyllie vs. Youssef Dib, 10 rounds, lightweights
Skye Nicolson vs. Urvashi Singh, 10 rounds, female junior featherweights
August 23: San Antonio
Justin Figueroa vs. Jarrod Tennant, 8 rounds, junior middleweights
Javier Rodriguez vs. Brandon Cruz, 8 rounds, lightweights
Eddie Ortiz vs. Jose Sanchez Charles, 6 rounds, super middleweights
Joseph Almadji vs. Santiago Buendia, 4 rounds, junior middleweights
Isaac Bermea vs. Pedro Pinillo, 6 rounds, junior welterweights
Ethan Perez vs. Osmar Rodriguez Gamez, 6 rounds, featherweights
Oliver Guerrero vs. Jerome Aiken, 4 rounds, heavyweights
Ramon Soto vs. TBA, 4 rounds, featherweights
August 30: Bangkok, Thailand (DAZN)
Dream Boxing
August 30: Toledo, Ohio
Albert Bell vs. Keith Hunter, 10 rounds, lightweights
Tyler McCreary vs. Derrick Murray, 8 rounds, junior lightweights
Ryan Williams vs. Marcus Decamp, 4 rounds, junior bantamweights
Adel Mason vs. Ira Terry, 4 rounds, junior featherweights
James Evans vs. Vercell Webster, 6 rounds, heavyweights
September 4: Montreal
Osleys Iglesias vs. Vladimir Shishkin, 12 rounds, IBF super middleweight eliminator
Dzmitry Asanau vs. Laid Douadi, 10 rounds, lightweights
Alexandre Gaumont vs. Sofiane Khati, 10 rounds, middleweights
Avery Martin Duval vs. TBA, 10 rounds, lightweights
Moreno Fendero vs. TBA, 8 rounds, light heavyweights
Wyatt Sanford vs. TBA, 6 rounds, junior welterweights
Erik Israyelyan vs. Dylan Schroeder, 4 rounds, junior lightweights
September 5: Dublin, Ireland
Michael Conlan vs. Jack Bateson, 10 rounds, featherweights
Charlie Edwards vs. TBA, 10 rounds, junior bantamweights
Ben Marksby vs. Senan Kelly, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
Dean Walsh vs. Jamil Elo, 8 rounds, junior middleweights
Dan Toward vs. TBA, 8 rounds, junior middleweights
Glenn Byrne vs. Charly Lopez, 8 rounds, junior middleweights
Kieran Molloy vs. Nourdeen Toure, 6 rounds, welterweights
Kevin Cronin vs. Grant Dennis, 6 rounds, super middleweights
Codie Smith vs. TBA, 6 rounds, junior lightweights
Gerard Hughes vs. TBA, 4 rounds, junior featherweights
Paul Loonam vs. Jake Pollard, 6 rounds, junior featherweights
Kian Hedderman vs. TBA, 4 rounds, cruiserweights
September 5: Washington, D.C. (ProBox TV)
Jordan White vs. Rene Tellez Giron, 10 rounds, lightweights
Sulaiman Segawa vs. Bryan Acosta, 10 rounds, featherweights
Jonhatan Cardoso vs. Luis Torres Valenzuela, 10 rounds, lightweights
Francois Scarboro Jr. vs. D’Angelo Keyes, 8 rounds, junior lightweights
Travon Marshall vs. Damoni Cato-Cain, 8 rounds,welterweights
Jeffrey Yu vs. Luis Alberto Lopez, 6 rounds, featherweights
Benjamin Johnson vs. Luis Caraballo Ramos, 6 rounds, welterweights
September 5: Bethlehem, Pa.
Euri Cedeno vs. Willie Jones, 10 rounds, middleweights
Atif Oberlton vs. Chown Sims, 8 rounds, light heavyweights
Brittany Sims vs. Natalia Francesca, 8 rounds, female bantamweights
Jorge Luis Moracen Sotolongo vs. Eric Moon, 6 rounds, super middleweights
Adam Atiyeh vs. Michael Shaw, 4 rounds, heavyweights
Mike Liberto vs. DeJon Farrell-Francis, 4 rounds, cruiserweights
Jose Torres vs. Denzel Villar, 4 rounds, bantamweights
Emmanuel Chance vs. TBA, 4 rounds, bantamweights
Yamil Ortiz vs. TBA, junior lightweights
Yasin Subhanallah vs. TBA, 4 rounds, lightweights
September 5: Carteret, N.J.
Thomas Blumenfeld vs. Julio Rosa, 10 rounds, junior welterweights
Danny Barrios Flores vs. Franklin Gonzalez, 8 rounds, junior featherweights
Cesar Francis vs. Derrick Whitley Jr., 6 rounds, welterweights
Miguel Angel Arias vs. Shaquille Cameron, 6 rounds, middleweights
September 6: Los Mochis, Mexico (DAZN)
Eduardo “Sugar” Nunez vs. Christopher Diaz, 12 rounds, for Nunez’s IBF junior lightweight title
September 6: Sunderland, England (DAZN)
Pat McCormack vs. Miguel Parra, 10 rounds, welterweights
Mark Dickinson vs. Troy Williamson, 10 rounds, super middleweights
Sandy Ryan vs. Jade Grierson, 10 rounds, female welterweights
Cameron Vuong vs. TBA, 10 rounds, lightweights
Leo Atang vs. Cristian Uwaka, 4 rounds, heavyweights
Tiah-Mai Ayton vs. Lydie Bialic, 6 rounds, female bantamweights
Adam Maca vs. TBA, 4 rounds, bantamweights
Brad Casey vs. TBA, 4 rounds, cruiserweights
September 6: TBA, Mexico
Oscar Valdez vs. TBA, 10 rounds, lightweights
September 7: Brentwood, England (DAZN)
Lillie Winch vs. Linzi Buczynskyj, 10 rounds, female junior lightweights
Zachary Phee vs. Frankie Storey, 10 rounds, junior featherweights
Muzamiru Kakande vs. Kevin Reavell, 10 rounds, junior middeweights
James Osborne vs. Alex Branson-Cole, 10 rounds, super middleweights
September 12: Managua, Nicaragua
Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez vs. Hector Robles, 10 rounds, junior bantamweights
September 13: Las Vegas (Netflix)
Canelo Alvarez vs. Terence Crawford, 12 rounds, for Alvarez’s undisputed super middleweight title
September 13: Belfast, Northern Ireland (DAZN)
Lewis Crocker vs. Paddy Donovan, rematch, 12 rounds, for vacant IBF welterweight title
Ishamel Davis vs. Caoimhin Agyarko, 10 rounds, junior middleweights
Molly McCann vs. TBA, 4 rounds, female bantamweights
Tyrone McKenna vs. Dylan Moran, rematch, 10 rounds, welterweights
Pat Brown vs. TBA, 8 rounds, cruiserweights
Aaron Bowen vs. TBA, 8 rounds, middleweights
September 13: Kolding, Denmark
Jacob Bank vs. Tyron Zeuge, 10 rounds, super middleweights
September 14: Nagoya, Japan
Naoya Inoue vs. Murodjon Akhmadaliev, 12 rounds, for Inoue’s undisputed junior featherweight title
Yoshiki Takei vs. Christian Medina, 12 rounds, for Takei’s WBO bantamweight title
Yuni Takada vs, Ryusei Matsumoto, 12 rounds, for vacant WBA “regular” strawweight title
Yudai Murakami vs. Taiga Imanaga, 10 rounds, lightweights
Ei Go vs. Shunpei Ohata, 8 rounds, junior lightweights
Toshiki Shimomachi vs. Han Sol Lee, 8 rounds, junior featherweights
Taisei Ayano vs. Yusuke Nawa, 4 rounds, bantamweights
September 20: Huntington, N.Y.
Star Boxing “Rockin’ Fights 51”
September 27: Aschersleben, Germany
Julian Vogel vs. Sami Ahmeti, 10 rounds, junior middleweights
October 4: Glasgow, Scotland (DAZN)
Cristobal Lorente vs. Nathaniel Collins,12 rounds, for Lorente’s European featherweight title
Regan Glackin vs. Louie O’Doherty, 12 rounds, lightweights
Willy Hutchinson vs. TBA, 10 rounds, light heavyweights
Aston Brown vs. Paul Kean, 10 rounds, middleweights
October 4: Lilliestram, Norway
Ema Kozin vs. Cecilia Braekhus, 10 rounds, for Kozin’s WBC/WBO women’s junior middleweight title
October 11: Sheffield, England (DAZN)
David Allen vs. Arslanbek Makhmudov, 12 rounds, heavyweights
Josh Padley vs. Reece Bellitto, 10 rounds, junior lightweights
Junaid Bostan vs. Bilal Fawaz, 10 rounds, junior middleweights
Ibraheem Sulaimaan vs. TBA, 8 rounds, junior lightweights
Conner Tudsbury vs. TBA, 6 rounds, light heavyweights
Hamza Uddin vs. TBA, 8 rounds, flyweights
October 17: London (DAZN)
Kieron Conway vs. George Liddard,12 rounds, for Conway’s British and Commonwealth middleweight titles
October 25: Sydney, Canada
Ryan Rozicki vs. Akani Phuzi, 10 rounds, cruiserweights
October 26: Levallois Perret, France
Bakary Samake vs. Saulo Morales Saldivar, 12 rounds, junior middleweights
November 22: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (DAZN)
David Benavidez vs. Anthony Yarde, 12 rounds, for Benavidez’s WBC light heavyweight title
Brian Norman Jr. vs. Devin Haney, 12 rounds, for Norman’s WBO welterweight title
Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez vs. Fernando Martinez, 12 rounds, WBC/WBO/WBA junior bantamweight unification
Abdullah Mason vs. Sam Noakes, 12 rounds, for vacant WBO lightweight title
Subriel Matias vs. Dalton Smith, 12 rounds, for Matias’ WBC junior welterweight title
December 2: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Ricky Hatton vs. Eisa Al Dah, 8 rounds, middleweights
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Teraji tomorrow morning, 5ish Pacific? Little over a month out, and no official undercard for Canelo/Crawford. That's sorta Sus. And a huge mistake. I'm telling you right now. Latino Casual Boxing fans that I come into contact with, get a blank stare every single time I mention Bud Crawford as Canelo's opponent. They have no idea who he is! It's gotten to the point that I act dumb when asked who Crawford is. Because I'm embarrassed to have to explain every single time. Just happened again to me today! TKO better put on a bunch of Mexican fighters on that card soon (and lower the prices). I'm just saying. BTW, Allegiant Stadium is so shitty for putting on Boxing. I'm leaning towards watching it from a Sports Books (Circa?) regardless.
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