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Saturday night from the TD Garden in Boston, Demetrius Andrade will be facing Walter Kautondokwa for the vacant WBO middleweight title. Originally, Andrade was slated to face Billy Joe Saunders before he vacated the title after testing positive for a banned substance.
Rob Brant, who faces WBA 'regular' middleweight champion, Ryoto Murata, this Saturday night from the Park Theater in Las Vegas on ESPN+ hears the talk of the Japanese star facing Gennady Golovkin in 2019.
Currently Gennady Golovkin is one of the few marquee fighters who isn't currently aligned with a network or streaming platform. For years he was associated with HBO Sports, which announced a few weeks ago that they were getting out of the boxing business in 2019.
It looks like HBO's final boxing broadcast will take place on December 8th and will feature super flyweight Roman 'Chocolatito' Gonzalez and undefeated female welterweight champion, Cecilia Braekhus.
When WBA 'regular' middleweight champion, Ryoto Murata, faces Rob Brant this Saturday night from the Park Theater in Las Vegas, there will be an interested observer in attendance. Tom Loeffler, who represents former unified middleweight champion, Gennady Golovkin (38-1-1, 34 KOs).
Kathy Duva, the head of Main Events, has confirmed that Dmitry Bivol will be returning to the ring in late November. "Dmitry is going to fight Jean Pascal, a former world champion and spectacular personality and he's going to be doing that at the Hard Rock in Atlantic City on Thanksgiving weekend on November 24th," she told BoxingScene.com on Tuesday.
It's clear what direction that the handlers of heavyweight contender Jarrell 'Big Baby' Miller want to go in the aftermath of his second round destruction of two division champion Tomasz Adamek on October 6th. Rated number two in the WBA rankings, they would like to fight for a version of their heavyweight title.
For the past month or so there was rampant speculation that Joe Smith would be challenging WBA light heavyweight titlist Dmitry Bivol on HBO in late November. As Previously reported on BoxingScene.com, it looks like Smith will still be fighting for a 175-pound belt but it will be against IBF titlist Artur Beterbiev.
Coming off his first round destruction of Gary 'Spike' O'Sullivan on September 15th, former IBF middleweight titlist David Lemieux was hoping that he would be facing unified middleweight champion, Saul "Canelo" Alvarez, who last week decided to face WBA 'regular' super middleweight belt-holder Rocky Fielding on December 15th at the Madison Square Garden in New York.
WBO welterweight titlist Terence Crawford makes the first defense of his belt against the undefeated Jose Benavidez this Saturday night from the CHI Health Center in Omaha, Nebraska. If Crawford should come out victorious as expected in this ESPN main event, how does Bob Arum forecast his 2019?