PunchingGrace.com, 6:30 pm ET, Steven Butler vs Stephane Fondjo. An Eye of the Tiger show from Montreal, Canada. This was originally set for Butler vs Erik Bazinyan, but Bazinyan is hurt. In steps Fondjo, who has fought as a pro mostly in Dubai and his native Cameroon. Jhon Orobio takes on Xolisani Ndongeni in the chief support, with Canadian 2024 Olympic bronze medalist Wyatt Sanford also on the undercard. You’ll need a subscription to PunchingGrace.com to watch this one, and I have no idea what that’ll cost you because they won’t tell you until you create an account and log in to their site. Already too costly for my taste!
DAZN, 3:00 pm ET, BOXRAW “Sparring Session”. Another edition of this, from London, England this time. A charming, don’t-call-it-fighting-it’s-legally-“sparring” event that was highly controversial when they ran it in New York, and went just great, no notes. Will anyone get wildly mismatched and exit with a brain injury this time? I suppose you could tune in and find out!
DAZN PPV, 11:45 am ET, Chris Eubank vs Conor Benn 2. From Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London. They tried to make this happen back in 2022, and we all laughed. Laughed! Or, maybe just scoffed contemptuously. Then a bunch of wild stuff happened, eggs were eaten, eggs were thrown, suspensions were issued and appealed and circumvented… Eventually, in spite of a general consensus that it was a low-key joke of a matchup cashing in on their fathers’ names and offering little else, it actually went off back in April. And, whattayaknow… It was a Fight of the Year worthy show! Boxing doesn’t usually give us happy surprises like that! And, to no one’s surprise (or complaint, really, this time around), we’re doing it again! It’s $59.99 American dollars for this PPV, but other boxing fans are much less likely to mock you for buying it given what the world saw earlier this year. Respectable undercard, as these things go, with Adam Azim facing a late sub Kurt Scoby, Jack Catterall vs Ekow Essuman in an “I beat Josh Taylor, too!” grudge(?) match, plus now-heavyweight Richard Riakporhe against Tommy “Hell Boy” Welch. BLH will have live updates
Top Rank Classics, 8:00 pm ET, Rafael Espinoza vs Arnold Khegai. For Espinoza’s WBO featherweight title, from San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Another post-ESPN breakup show finds its way to Top Rank’s own streaming platform, with options for Roku, Vizio, Tubi, and Pluto. Lindolfo Delgado vs Gabriel Gollaz has banger potential in support. Also scheduled for this undercard are Emiliano Vargas, and Richard Torrez, putting it all on the line against Tomas Salek, BoxRec’s #409 heavyweight. Can Torrez do what only three other men have done in the past year and a half, and take down Salek, the Terror of Usti nad Labem, Czechia? Presumably! BLH will have live updates
