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by Cliff Rold - The least hyped fight of Saturday’s Showtime quadruple-header might just be the one most worth paying attention too. Hot on the heels of September’s trio of division shaping 160 lb. wins for champion Sergio Martinez, Gennady Golovkin, and Daniel Geale, two undefeated battlers will lock horns.
They’ll be fighting for the WBO’s belt in class.
More important, they’ll be jockeying for position.
In a fight game that sees few in the title picture fight more than two or three times a year, position can be everything. Let’s assume the winner on Saturday wants a crack at Martinez (and any Middleweight with professional pride would want not nothing more at the moment). Let’s also assume Martinez ends up in rematch with Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. the next time he gets into a ring.
That leaves Hassan N’Dam N’Jikam (27-0, 17 KO) and Peter Qullin (27-0, 20 KO) anywhere from nine months to a year away from scoring a crack no matter how good they look this weekend.
That’s the timetable for the winner.
It would have to be a damning feeling to be the loser.
While he enters defending the belt at stake, N’Jikam is largely unknown to the U.S. audience. Sure, there are hardcore followers who have seen his consecutive wins in interim title fights (two WBA, one WBO) against Avtandil Khurtsidze, Giovanni Lorenzo, and Max Bursak. [Click Here To Read More]
They’ll be fighting for the WBO’s belt in class.
More important, they’ll be jockeying for position.
In a fight game that sees few in the title picture fight more than two or three times a year, position can be everything. Let’s assume the winner on Saturday wants a crack at Martinez (and any Middleweight with professional pride would want not nothing more at the moment). Let’s also assume Martinez ends up in rematch with Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. the next time he gets into a ring.
That leaves Hassan N’Dam N’Jikam (27-0, 17 KO) and Peter Qullin (27-0, 20 KO) anywhere from nine months to a year away from scoring a crack no matter how good they look this weekend.
That’s the timetable for the winner.
It would have to be a damning feeling to be the loser.
While he enters defending the belt at stake, N’Jikam is largely unknown to the U.S. audience. Sure, there are hardcore followers who have seen his consecutive wins in interim title fights (two WBA, one WBO) against Avtandil Khurtsidze, Giovanni Lorenzo, and Max Bursak. [Click Here To Read More]
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