Sebastian Formella: record, next fight and profile →
Even without its original main event, the show goes on at Wembley. Conor ‘The Destroyer’ Benn and Sebastian Formella both made weight for their scheduled 12-round welterweight clash, which takes place Saturday evening from Wembley’s SSE Arena in London, England. Benn (16-0, 11KOs) checked in at 146 ¾ pounds, while Hamburg’s Formella (22-1, 10KOs) tipped the scale at a fighting fit 146.8 pounds.
Benn, Formella Final Press Conference Photos Gallery - The final press conference took place for Conor Benn's WBA Continental Welterweight Title clash with former IBO Welterweight World Champion Sebastian Formella, which will headline on Saturday November 21 at The SSE Arena, Wembley, with all of the action shown live on Sky Sports and DAZN.
Conor Benn is planning on announcing himself on the world stage when he takes on former IBO Welterweight World Champion Sebastian Formella at the top of a bill at The SSE Arena, Wembley on Saturday November 21, live on Sky Sports and DAZN.
The show will go on without Dillian Whyte. Plans remain in place to proceed with the November 21 card at Wembley’s SSE Arena, only without its original main event and now on a different platform. Following the postponement of the rematch between Whyte and Alexander Povetkin, Matchroom Boxing has confirmed that a significant portion of the show will remain intact.
Universum Box Promotion, the new version, has cancelled its show on October 17 in Duesseldorf mainly due to the coronavirus pandemic. There was also some fights being called off before that such as Danish heavyweight Kem Ljungquist, who pulled out of the fight against Senad Gashi due to an injured hand.
Conor Benn faces the toughest test of his career on Saturday November 21 when he clashes with former IBO Welterweight World Champion Sebastian Formella on the Alexander Povetkin vs. Dillian Whyte 2 undercard, shown live on Sky Sports Box Office in the UK.
FOX’s viewership of its main event Saturday night was almost identical to the totals from the network’s previous boxing broadcast. Nielsen Media Research revealed Tuesday that FOX’s main event Saturday night, Shawn Porter-Sebastian Formella, drew a peak audience of 1,225,000 and an average audience of 1,077,000. FOX’s prior main event, Jamal James-Thomas Dulorme on August 8, was watched by a peak audience of 1,224,000 and drew an average viewership of 1,076,000.
Porter, Formella Fight Photos Gallery - Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles - In a welterweight eliminator, two-time world champion Shawn Porter (31-3-1, 17 KOs) won a dominant twelve round unanimous decision over previously undefeated Sebastian Formella (22-1, 10 KOs). All three judges saw it 120-108. (photos by Sean Michael Ham)
Shawn Porter has begun the march towards his self-promised goal of becoming a three-time welterweight titlist. The first step came in the form of a lopsided 12-round win over Hamburg, Germany’s Sebastian Formella atop a Fox primetime telecast Saturday evening from Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
Sebastian Formella has always envisioned being part of a big welterweight fight in the United States. The one he landed will come under far different circumstances than the one that attracted him to the scene, though nevertheless still representing the biggest stage of his career. His fight with former two-time welterweight titlist Shawn Porter also comes at a time when the odds-on favorite doesn’t always come out ahead.