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KAMBOSOS and HUGHES Clash in a 12 Rounds, LIGHTWEIGHT WORLD TITLE ELIMINATOR Fight in Oklahoma
FireLake Arena, Shawnee, OK. USGeorge Kambosos 22-2, 10 KOs) will meet Maxi Hughes (26-5-2, 5 KOs) in a lightweight fight in July in Shawnee, Oklahoma. The former undisputed lightweight champion who is now with Top Rank after agreeing to a new multiyear, co-promotional deal with Lou DiBella. Kambosos (22-2, 10 KOs) returned to Australia a star after defeating Teofimo Lopez in New York to capture the undisputed lightweight championship in ESPN's 2021 Upset of the Year. The 29-year-old dropped back-to-back decisions to Devin Haney in Australia and will now look for his first win since the Lopez bout. Kambosos is rated No. 5 by ESPN at lightweight, and a victory should bring him one step closer to another title shot. Hughes (26-5-2, 5 KOs) is coming off the best win of his career, a majority-decision victory over former featherweight titleholder Kid Galahad in September. The 33-year-old from England has reeled off seven consecutive wins since a 2020 loss to Liam Walsh, including a points win over Jono Carroll. Fight will be live on ESPN and ESPN+
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Alycia Baumgardner and Christina Linardatou Clash for the UNDISPUTED WORLD SUPER FEATHERWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP Title
Masonic Temple, Detroit, Michigan, USAlycia Baumgardner (14-1, 7 KO) will make the first defense of her undisputed Junior Lightweight Championship Belt when she fights Christina Linardatou (14-2, 6 KO), in Detroit. It's the second fight this year for Baumgardner (14-1, 7 KO), who last fought in February when she beat Elhem Mekhaled at the Hulu Theatre in New York's Madison Square Garden to become undisputed champion. Linardatou (14-2, 6 KO) last fought in July 2022, when she beat Aleksandra Vujovic. Linardatou's only losses have come to Katie Taylor and Delfine Persoon. Linardatou held the WBO junior welterweight belt when she vacated the title after becoming pregnant -- leading to an over two-year layoff before she returned last year. Fight will be live on DAZN
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Two Welterweights Fighters, Vergil Ortiz Jr and Eimantas Stanionis Fist it Out for the WBA REGULAR WELTERWEIGHT WORLD TITLE at AT&T Center, San Antonio
AT&T Center, San Antonio, Texas, USEimantas Stanionis and Vergil Ortiz Jr are now officially set for a clash on July 8 date is now set in stone, as the two welterweights will headline a DAZN card from AT&T Center in San Antonio. the 25-year-old Ortiz (19-0, 19 KOs) has been battling COVID off & on since 2020, and it just keeps coming back on him again & again. Though Ortiz says he feels great, it’s difficult to know how much COVID took out of him. Some people are never the same after a vicious bout with COVID; in Ortiz’s case, he’s struggled with it for three years. Stanionis (14-0, 9 KOs) has had his own physical problems, dealing with an emergency appendectomy last January. If not for that, Ortiz and Stanionis would have fought on March 18. It’ll be good to get the Stanionis vs. Ortiz fight out of the way so these two can move on and fight other opponents. There are a lot of other fighters in the division that would like to get a shot at Stanionis’ secondary WBA 147-lb belt. Fight will be live on DAZN
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ared “The Real Big Baby†Anderson is set to face Zhan Kossobutskiy in a 10 round, Heavyweight Homecoming Fight
Huntington Center, Toledo, OH, USJared “The Real Big Baby†Anderson 14-0 (14 KOs) will collide against Kazakhstan’s Zhan Kossobutskiy 19-0 (18 KOs) in a 10-round main event Saturday, July 1, at Toledo’s Huntington Center. Anderson (14-0, 14 KOs) debuted in the paid ranks in 2019 and has developed into a top contender. He has never gone beyond the sixth round, as he has stopped five of his opponents in the first round and another five in the second round. In 2020, he garnered global attention as Tyson Fury’s primary sparring partner, but he is now carving his own path. In his last fight, he knocked out then-undefeated George Arias in the third round, the second unbeaten fighter to have fallen victim to Anderson’s punching power. Ranked at No. 7 by the WBO and No. 11 by both the WBC and WBA, the 23-year-old now turns his attention to the division’s top dogs. Kossobutskiy (19-0, 18 KOs) is a 34-year-old southpaw from Kostanay, Kazakhstan. He has only gone the distance once in his career, a 10-round unanimous decision win over Kamil Sokolowski in August 2020. He has not gone passed the sixth round since. In 2021, he went 3-0 with three knockouts, stopping once-beaten Nigerian Onorede Ehwareme, iron-chinned Philadelphian Joey Dawejko, and then-undefeated Dominican Alexis Garcia. In 2022, he dispatched former world title challenger Johann Duhaupas in the fifth round and is coming off a third-round knockout over previously unbeaten contender Hussein Muhamed in November. Fight will be broadcast live on ESPN, ESPN Deportes and ESPN+
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