Boxing Challenge

 The boxing weekend isn't filled with compelling matchups, but several top contenders are in action, and they will continue to stay sharp for bigger matches in 2025.

ESPN+ and Top Rank bring back super middleweight contender Jaime Munguia in a homecoming bout in Tijuana, Mexico.

Munguia stopped contender Erik Bazinyan in ten exciting rounds in September and faces a question mark in unbeaten Frenchman Bruno Surace, who has faced zero recognizable foes, so who knows how good Surace is.

Munguia stays sharp in his hometown against an opponent he should shine against, which is fine with me considering he's fought Canelo Alvarez and Erik Bazinyan already this year.

DAZN will offer a day/night doubleheader with the opening card's main event pairing former WBA and IBF junior featherweight champion Murodjon Akhmadaliev fighting for a minor title against Ricardo Espinoza in Monte Carlo.

Akhmadaliev has won one fight since his stunning split decision defeat to Marlon Tapales, which cost him his titles and a unification match with Naoya Inoue, while Espinoza lost to his two best opponents in former champions Daniel Roman and John Reil Casimero.

Golden Boy takes over in the evening with a welterweight main event with Alexis Rocha and Raul Curiel.

Rocha was in line for a mandatory chance at then-WBO champion Terence Crawford or the vacant title before his surprising knockout loss to Giovani Santillan last October.

Rocha has won twice since and faces the unbeaten Curiel, who has stopped thirteen of his fifteen foes.

This shapes up as the best fight of the weekend.

Junior middleweight contender Charles Conwell continues to stay busy against unbeaten Argentine Gerardo Vergara.

Conwell should be in line for a title shot soon and an impressive win over Vergara would help make his case for a chance in 2025.

DAZN returns on Sunday from Gibraltar with veteran heavyweight contender Dillian Whyte continuing to rebuild his career after his 2022 KO loss to Tyson Fury for Fury's WBC title at the time.

Whyte has defeated Jermaine Franklin and Christian Hammer since losing to Fury and will meet 23-1 Ebenezer Tetteh, who is remembered most for his only loss, a one-round defeat to Daniel DuBois in 2019.

Boxing Challenge

Super Middleweights. 10 Rds 

Jaime Munguia vs Bruno Surace

Ramon Malpica: Munguia KO 6

TRS: Munguia KO 4

Vince Samano: Surace Unanimous Decision

Junior Featherweights 12 Rds

Murodjon Akhmadaliev vs Ricardo Espinoza

R.L; Akhmadaliev Unanimous Decision 

TRS: Akhmadaliev KO 9
V.S:  Espinoza Unanimous Decision

Welterweights 12 Rds

Alexis Rocha vs Raul Curiel

R.L: Curiel KO 9

TRS: Curiel KO 6

V.S: Curiel Unanimous Decision

Junior Middleweights 10 Rds

Charles Conwell vs Gerardo Vergara

R.L:  Conwell KO 7

TRS: Conwell KO 6
V.S; Vergara KO 6

Heavyweights 10 Rds

Dillian Whyte vs Ebenezer Tettah

R.L: Whyte KO 8

TRS: Whyte KO 4

V.S: Tettah KO 6