ESPN/Top Rank will pit their future hope in the heavyweight division against his first name opponent as Jared "Big Baby" Anderson goes back to his hometown of Toledo Ohio to face a late replacement in former IBF champion Charles Martin.
Now Martin did hold a heavyweight title for about a long weekend (actually eighty-five days but who's counting) in 2016 and he's been knocked out in two of his three losses (Anthony Joshua and Luis Ortiz) but Martin has a good punch, and Anderson was stunned a bit by Jerry Forrest, who was the first step forward in opponents, in the first round before Anderson burned Forrest in the second, so there is some intrigue here but I don't see this fight going five rounds let alone the scheduled ten.
The remaining two fights aren't on American, well anything, so you might have to scrap around to find these affairs.
The IBF middleweight title that was vacated by Gennady Golovkin will be picked up in Wuppertal Germany as Esquiva Falcao meets Vincenzo Gualtieri for that title.
Falcao was the mandatory challenger for Golovkin but without any interest from potential promoters or media providers, Golovkin wasn't interested in such a fight for a smaller cash payout than he is accustomed to.
Falcao was an Olympic silver medalist- eleven years ago, and other than two fringe contenders in Artur Avakov and Patrice Volny, Falcao hasn't beaten anyone of note in thirty fights without a defeat.
As for Gualtieri, he's unbeaten in twenty fights but has scored only seven knockouts and his resume' of opponents is even softer than Falcao's, which says a lot.
Keep in mind that Germany is notorious for awful judging in favor of their home fighters, so Falcao might be well suited to remember that, and not rely on the scorecards.
In South Africa, Sivenathi Nontshinga defends his IBF junior flyweight title for the first time against Regie Suganob.
Nontshinga won the vacant title with a split-decision win over Hector Torres in Mexico last September in a battle that deserved consideration for the fight of the year.
Suganob earned his title shot with an eight-round technical decision win over undefeated Mark Vicelles.
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