The undercard for the Chris Eubank-Conor Benn II undercard has been announced, and it features Adam Azim, Richard Riakporhe and Jack Catterall in separate bouts.
The show, staged by The Ring in conjunction with Riyadh Season, Boxxer, Matchroom and Sela, takes place on November 15 at Tottenham Hotspur.
Slough’s fast-handed junior welterweight Azim is 13-0 (10 KOs) and ranked No. 8 by the WBC and No. 10 by the IBF. He’s matched with 20-2 (12 KOs) Armenia-based Russian Zaur Abdullaev, the IBF’s No. 9 at lightweight, who is coming off a May loss to Raymond Muratalla in his last fight.
Catterall, ranked by all four major governing bodies at welterweight, meets in-form Nottingham man Ekow Essuman, 22-1 (8 KOs), who scored the win of his career to defeat former undisputed champion Josh Taylor earlier in the year.
It will be Catterall’s first fight since linking up with trainer Derrick “Bozy” Ennis, having left Jamie Moore’s gym.
Catterall, 32-2 (13 KOs), won a technical decision over Harlem Eubank in July after their fight was stopped following a clash of heads thatsaw the contest stopped after the seventh round.
Riakporhe, who moved up to heavyweight after a WBO cruiserweight title challenge of Chris Billam-Smith, will fight Brighton’s Tommy Welch, son of former heavyweight title challenger Scott Welch.
Billy Nelson-trained Londoner Riakporhe is 18-1 (14 KOs) and won his first heavyweight fight when stopping 9-9 Kevin Nicolas Espindola in round four in Saudi Arabia in May.
Welch is 16-0 (9 KOs).
The run of tough fights continues for Ishmael Davis, too, at Tottenham Hotspur’s Stadium where Davis meets Sam Gilley.
Davis, 13-3 (6 KOs) and from Leeds, has lost his last three, to Josh Kelly, Serhii Bohachuk and, most recently, to Caoimhin Agyarko in Belfast earlier this month. Gilley is 18-1-1 (9 KOs) and the 31-year-old junior middleweight is hoping to get back to winning ways after an eight-round draw against Gideon Onyenani in Ipswich in June.
The show, called Unfinished Business, also sees Joe Gallagher-trained flyweight prospect Mikie Tallon, 10-0 (1 KO), box Bradford’s 4-2-2 Fezan Shahid.
