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Cruiserweight Jai Opetaia is backing his countryman George Kambosos “all the way” in this Saturday’s vacant IBF lightweight title clash with Vasiliy Lomachenko in Perth, Australia.

Japan’s Ryosuke Nishida defeated Emmanuel Rodriguez to become the new IBF bantamweight world champion in just his ninth professional fight.

With less than three weeks before his highly anticipated rematch with Mairis Briedis on the Tyson Fury-Oleksandr Usyk undercard in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Jai Opetaia says he is “the new generation of great” for the cruiserweight division.

Bantamweight world champion Jason Moloney (27-2, 19 KOs) will begin another mammoth month for Australian boxing when he defends his title against Yoshiki Takei on the Naoya Inoue-Luis Nery undercard at the Tokyo Dome on May 6.

British middleweight contender Hamzah Sheeraz has been handed the captain’s armband by promoter Frank Warren for the upcoming Queensberry-Matchroom “5 vs. 5” tournament playing as the undercard for Artur Beterbiev-Dmitry Bivol in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on June 1. “I didn’t even know, he just chose me,” Sheeraz told BoxingScene regarding his captaincy. “Literally, just before we got on the stage before the conference, he said, ‘You are the captain.’ I didn’t understand what the captain is, and what the role was. I only found out afterwards. But it’s all good. It was chucked on me, but I’m not complaining. Here we are, making things happen. I suppose it is not a bad thing. I can only take it in my stride and do the best I can, truly and honestly.

Featherweight Nick Ball would have had less than three months to get over his split-decision draw with Rey Vargas when he steps into the ring with WBA champion Raymond Ford on the Queensberry-Matchroom 5 vs 5 undercard for Artur Beterbiev-Dmitrii Bivol


Super middleweight contender Christian Mbilli has previously told BoxingScene that Saul Canelo Alvarez’s undisputed title defense with Jaime Munguia is an “easy fight”.