American heavyweights Jarrell Miller and Michael Hunter are set to fight in Las Vegas on September 11.
They will headline a showcase event in Sin City in the lead-up to the Canelo Alvarez-Terence Crawford bout at the Allegiant Stadium on September 13, The Ring has learned and subsequently shared on its social pages.
Miller, who has a checkered history with PED usage, has had his last two fights on Riyadh Season bills, getting stopped in the 10th round by Daniel Dubois and then drawing with Andy Ruiz. He has not fought since that Los Angeles draw in August of 2024, but had been due to face Fabio Wardley in Ipswich, England, but Miller – following a controversial and distasteful press conference – didn’t make it to the fight and Justis Huni stepped in to challenge Wardley.
A shoulder injury was cited as the reason.
Hunter, whose career has been blighted by inactivity and lack of opportunity, had been seeking a fight with Kubrat Pulev for a version of the WBA belt, but the 37-year-old Las Vegas-based boxer with a record of 24-1-2 (17 KOs) has managed three fights last year after having only had one outing in 2023 and none in 2022.
Hunter’s lone loss came to the brilliant Oleksandr Usyk in 2017 when the American lost a decision in a cruiserweight bout.
Hunter has campaigned as a heavyweight since, and is 12-0-2 in his last 14, taking the unbeaten records of Martin Bakole and Sergey Kuzmin in the process.
Miller is also 37. He had been due to face Jared Anderson that fight week in September, but Miller took to social media last week to say Anderson had pulled out and Deontay Wilder had rejected a fight against him.
On Friday last week, Hunter also took to social media to vent his frustrations when he wrote on X: “Pulev and his team continue to run. Joke! Boogieman problems.”
