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Belfast’s Carl Frampton (23-1, 14 KOs) has rung the changes recently after taking on a new coach in Salford’s Jamie Moore, adding MTK Global in an advisory capacity, and linking up with Frank Warren and BT Sport for what he believes will be a crucial period in his boxing career.
The dust has settled on Joseph Parker’s Majority Decision win over Hughie Fury at the Manchester Arena on Saturday night and Team Fury have told BoxingScene that they will try to force through a rematch with the New Zealand-based WBO heavyweight titlist due to the lopsided scorecards that were produced after 12 rounds of boxing.
Hughie Fury (20-0, 10 KOs) faces a date with destiny at the Manchester Arena tonight when he meets New Zealand’s Joseph Parker (23-0, 18 KOs) for the WBO title. It is the first fight at the arena since the Manchester bombing in May and Manchester-born Fury’s first fight in the city, it will also be televised live on Youtube as part of a new pay-per-view model that promoter Mick Hennessy hopes will take off.
Michael Conlan (3-0, 3 KOs) features on the undercard of WBO World featherweight titlist Oscar Valdez’s defence against Genesis Servania at the Convention Center in Tuscon, Arizona tonight and the 25-year-old has vowed to wow the American crowd for a fourth time before hopefully securing a fight on home soil at some point in the near future.
Today’s final press conference to publicise Joseph Parker’s WBO heavyweight title defence against mandatory challenger Hughie Fury was a more sedate affair than the one that was held in London on Monday during which David Higgins, the promoter of Parker, blasted Peter Fury over the lack of neutral officials, particularly the appointment of Terry O'Connor as referee.
Cyclone Promotions have confirmed that Josh Taylor (10-0, 9 KOs) will meet a former world titlist when he fights Miguel Vazquez (39-5, 15 early) at the Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh on November 11. The fight will be shown live on Channel 5 as the 26-year-old Edinbugh-based southpaw bids to build on his win over the previously undefeated Ohara Davies at the Braehead Arena on July 8, which was also shown live on the terrestrial TV channel.
Copper Box Arena, London - Billy Joe Saunders (25-0, 12 KOs) retained the WBO middleweight title with a twelve round unanimous decision over Willie Monroe Jr. (21-3, 6 KOs). The scores were 117-111, 115-114 and 117-112. It was Saunders' first bout since retaining his belt for the first time last December in a tough fight with Artur Akavov. Monroe was coming off a September 2016 decision win over Gabriel Rosado on the Canelo Alvarez-Liam Smith undercard in Texas.
London - Hackney's Anthony Yarde (175lbs) may have failed to hit the 175lb limit at the first time of asking yesterday, but the 26-year-old had no such problems tonight after landing often and hard against Budapest's Norbert Nemesapati (174lbs) in their scheduled 12-round WBO European and vacant Inter-Continental title fight.
Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) was in attendance at London's Copper Box Arena to support Billy Joe Saunders tonight and the former world heavyweight Champion believes that the WBO middleweight holder can produce a prime performance to beat American challenger Willie Monroe Jr. "He is in fantastic shape, the best shape of his life, I'd say, and has the enthusiasm back," he said when speaking to John Rawling of BT Sport.
Daniel Dubois (239lbs) kicked off Frank Warren's show at London's Copper Box Arena with a devastating single stanza KO win over fellow Londoner AJ Carter (222lbs) for the vacant BBBoC Southern Area heavyweight title. Carter was floored three times en route to defeat, which came at 0:48 of the first and moved the newly crowned titlist to 5-0 (5 KOs).