50-year-old former world heavyweight champion American Shannon Briggs will hold a boxing match with 44-year-old former UFC light heavyweight champion compatriot Quinton Jackson, reports
DAZN.
This fight has been talked about since last year. First, the grandfathers verbally fought, and then Jackson promised: “Briggs smokes a lot of cannabis, I’ll shut up his old ass.”
Reviewer
Chris Mannix shared an entertaining insider: “According to sources, on August 6, the ex-world champion in 63.5 kg Maurice Hooker will return to the ring against
Blair Cobbs. This is an extremely important fight between two fighters who return to the ring after defeats. The fight will take place as part of the Virgil Ortiz vs Michael McKinson show.
Both Hooker and Cobbs lost their last fights ahead of schedule. Maurice lost to Ortiz last March, and the garrulous Cobbs was knocked out by compatriot Alexis Rocha in March of this year.
The debut defense of the WBC belt in bridgerweight (up to 101.6 kg) will have to be postponed,
He speaks show organizer Yvon Michel (GYM Promotions). Apparently, there were some problems related to logistics.
In the main event of the evening, local champion Oskar Rivas (28-1, 19 KOs) was supposed to fight with the contender Pole Lukasz Rozanski (14-0, 13 KOs). Apparently, the show will take place in September or even in October.
Another, third postponement of a controversial event – recently boxing American former world champions Tevin Farmer (30-5-1, 6 KOs) and Mickey Bay (23-3-1, 11 KOs) who have rarely boxed recently. At first it was assumed that they would fight on May 21 in Dubai (UAE), but the event did not take place. According to the latest rumors, the fight will take place on August 12 in Prescott (Arizona, USA).
The event is expectedly not very popular, so it will be broadcast on the platform
Redemption PPV. The cost of broadcasting is 29.99 USD.
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