Pick it: Tyson Fury vs. Arslanbek Makhmudov
When to Watch: Saturday, April 11 at 2 p.m. Eastern Time (7 p.m. BST)
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Thursday, April 9: Osleys Iglesias vs. Pavel Silyagin (DAZN and PunchingGrace)
The broadcast begins at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time (11:30 p.m. BST).
This fight for the vacant IBF super middleweight title will take place at the Casino de Montreal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Iglesias, 14-0 (13 KOs), is a 28-year-old from Cuba who turned pro in Germany and has since made Montreal his fighting home, akin to many other talented foreign-born fighters who have been embraced by boxing fans in the region. His past five bouts have come in the Canadian province, four of them in Montreal and one in Quebec City.
During that run, Iglesias has knocked out the 32-6-1 Marcelo Coceres in one round; did the same thing to the 16-1-1 Evgeny Shvedenko; dispatched the 28-3 Sena Agbeko in the second round; put away the 18-0-2 Petro Ivanov in the fifth round; and stopped the 16-1 Vladimir Shishkin in the eighth.
The Shishkin win was in early September in an elimination match for the IBF title at 168lbs. Nine days later, Terence Crawford defeated Saul “Canelo” Alvarez to become the undisputed super middleweight champion. Crawford ultimately retired and vacated all four of the major sanctioning body belts.
Silyagin, 16-0-1 (7 KOs), is rated seventh by the IBF and agreed to fight after several others declined. The 32-year-old from Russia has won three in a row since his 2023 draw with eventual Iglesias victim Shvedenko. Silyagin fought just once in 2025, nearly shutting out the 23-0 Pablo Exequiel Corzo in July.
The co-feature pits junior welterweight prospect Arthur Biyarslanov, 20-0 (16 KOs), against Jimerr Espinosa, 17-2-1 (16 KOs). Biyarslanov is a 30-year-old who represented Canada in the 2016 Olympics, losing in his second match of the junior welterweight tournament. He is coming off a unanimous decision over former titleholder Sergey Lipinets last October. Espinosa, a 28-year-old from Mexico, has gone 2-0-1 since a split decision loss to prospect Delante “Tiger” Johnson in late 2023. Most recently, Espinosa stopped the 18-5 Adrian Villanueva in five rounds last May.
Other undercard bouts include lightweight prospect Luis Santana, 15-0 (7 KOs), against Chann Thonson, 18-1 (15 KOs); and Leila Beaudoin, 13-2 (2 KOs), returning from her decision loss to Alycia Baumgardner in December, will face former lightweight titleholder Victoria Bustos, 26-9-1 (0 KOs), who was nearly shut out in December by the 10-0 Rima Ayadi.
Friday, April 10: Hebert Conceicao Sousa vs Johan Gonzalez (ProBox TV)
The broadcast begins at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time (12:30 a.m. BST).
Conceicao Sousa, 10-0 (5 KOs), is a 28-year-old from Brazil who won Olympic gold at middleweight in 2021. In what could be seen as a passing of the torch in his country, he topped both of the Falcao brothers in recent professional fights. Conceicao Sousa outpointed Esquiva Falcao, a 2012 Olympic silver medalist, in their 2024 bout. And he shut out Yamaguchi Falcao, who took home bronze in 2012, last September. Most recently, Conceicao Sousa widely outpointed the 23-7-1 Elias Espadas in December.
Gonzalez, 36-5 (34 KOs), is a 34-year-old from Venezuela. He’s been a measuring stick of sorts in both victory and defeat. Four of his losses came to Magomed Kurbanov (UD10 in 2022), Jesus Ramos Jnr (TKO9 in 2024), Yoenis Tellez (TKO7 in 2024) and, most recently, Erislandy Lara (UD12 this past December). But he also notched wins over Guido Schramm (MD10 in 2023) and took a split decision that sent Jarrett Hurd into retirement in March of last year.
Also scheduled for this show at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey: a junior middleweight bout between Francisco Veron, 16-1-1 (10 KOs), and Raul Garcia, 15-2-1 (12 KOs); and a battle between junior lightweights William Foster III, 19-3 (11 KOs), and Joshafat Ortiz, 13-2 (6 KOs).
(Note: BoxingScene and ProBox are both owned by Garry Jonas.)
Friday, April 10: Theophilous Kpakpo Allotey vs. Jonas Erastus (DAZN)
The broadcast begins at 3 p.m. Eastern Time (8 p.m. BST).
Allotey is a 23-year-old junior bantamweight from Accra, Ghana, where this show is taking place at the capital city’s Bukom Boxing Arena. He is ranked 13th by the IBF and WBO. Allotey is coming off a decision win in December over Jayr Raquinel, which brought his record to 13-0 (10 KOs). However, Allotey is 0-1 in IBA Pro bouts, which BoxRec lists separately; he was knocked out in the fourth round by Patrick Chinyemba in 2024.
Erastus, 10-1 (2 KOs), is a 27-year-old from Namibia. He lost in his sole appearance outside of his home country, dropping a 10-round unanimous decision to the 11-0-1 Alfie Clegg last June. Erastus returned to friendlier environs in December and outpointed a 2-1 foe.
Saturday, April 11: Juan Francisco Estrada vs. Tenshin Nasukawa (DAZN)
The broadcast begins at 4:30 a.m. Eastern Time (9:30 a.m. BST).
Juan Francisco Estrada, long one of the best fighters from the lighter weight classes, is looking to return to prominence after being dethroned. Meanwhile, Tenshin Nasukawa, a talent who was billed as a future star, is seeking to rebound from his first disappointing defeat. This is an elimination bout for the WBC bantamweight belt currently held by Takuma Inoue.
Estrada, 45-4 (28 KOs), is a former two-division champion who is now aiming for a world title in his third weight class.
All four of Estrada’s losses came against fighters who either had world titles at the time or would go on to win them. And his first three defeats – to Juan Carlos Sanchez Jnr in 2011, Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez in 2012, and Srisaket Sor Rungvisai in 2018 – were later avenged. Estrada knocked Sanchez out in their rematch seven months later. He topped Sor Rungvisai by unanimous decision in 2019 to win the lineal junior bantamweight championship. And he met Chocolatito twice more, taking a hotly debated decision win in 2021 and a majority decision in 2022.
Estrada was also previously a unified titleholder at flyweight from 2013-2015. Against the rest of the modern “Four Kings,” he is 1-1 vs. Sor Rungvisai, 2-1 vs. Gonzalez and 2-0 vs. Carlos Cuadras, or 5-2 overall.
After wrapping up the trilogy with Chocolatito, Estrada spent nearly 19 months away before jumping right back in against Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez in June 2024. That would be a tough ask even for an active fighter. Rodriguez seized the throne at 115lbs and cemented his status as a pound-for-pound talent in the process, dropping Estrada in the fourth round, coming off the canvas himself in the sixth, and then putting Estrada down for the count with a body shot in the seventh.
Estrada spent nearly a year away before returning last June, widely outpointing the 21-2-2 Karim Arce Lugo. That and his past track record were enough for Estrada to be ranked No. 1 at bantamweight by the WBC, getting him this spot in the elimination bout. He is also No. 2 with the WBO and No. 10 with the IBF.
Nasukawa, 7-1 (2 KOs), was being pushed as a future bantamweight titleholder – but he fell short in his first shot, losing a unanimous decision to Takuma Inoue in November in a bout with the vacant WBC belt on the line.
The 27-year-old from Tokyo turned pro just three years ago after previously being a kickboxing star in Japan. Among boxing fans, he was initially known for his first-round exhibition loss against Floyd Mayweather Jnr in 2018.
Prior to the Inoue fight, Nasukawa took out contender Jonathan Rodriguez in three rounds and then added a trio of 10-round decisions to his ledger, defeating the 9-0 Gerwin Asilo, former bantamweight titleholder Jason Moloney and contender Victor Santillan.
After the Inoue loss, Nasukawa remains highly ranked by the WBA and WBC, slotted No. 2 with both, hence this spot in the latter’s eliminator. He’s also No. 9 with the IBF and No. 11 with the WBO.
Without much time to learn from the Inoue loss, Nasukawa’s now stepping in against an even more accomplished name in Estrada. Is he catching the future Hall of Famer at the right time? Or will Nasukawa catch another L?
The undercard at at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan, includes highly touted junior bantamweight prospect Tomoya Tsuboi against former junior flyweight titleholder Pedro Guevara. Tsuboi, 3-0 (2 KOs), is a 30-year-old coming off a stoppage win over Carlos Cuadras that sent Cuadras into retirement. Guevara, 43-5-2 (22 KOs), is 36 years old and has gone 1-0-1 since being obliterated by Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez in 2024. The win was over a 13-12-1 opponent, while the draw was against the 13-1-1 Alexis Molina Aguirre.
Also on this show, former junior flyweight titleholder Kyosuke Takami will face former flyweight titleholder Angel Ayala. Takami, 10-1 (8 KOs), was dethroned by split decision in a unification bout with Rene Santiago in December, and is moving up to 112lbs for this match. Ayala, 18-1 (8 KOs), is returning for the first time since losing his belt to Masamichi Yabuki via 12th-round TKO in March 2025.
Saturday, April 11: Brandon Adams vs Caoimhin Agyarko (PPV.com, Triller PPV, BASH TV)
The broadcast begins at 9 p.m. Eastern Time (2 a.m. BST).
Brandon Adams and Caoimhin Agyarko meet in an elimination bout for the right to challenge for the IBF junior middleweight title, which is currently held by Josh Kelly. Their match headlines at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas in Nevada.
In a weight class where so much attention understandably goes to the titleholders and other big names, Adams remains a veteran fixture at 154lbs – a longtime fringe contender who is very much deserving of this opportunity.
Adams, 26-4 (16 KOs), has been involved in several boxing tournaments. He lost a unanimous decision to Willie Monroe Jnr in the Boxcino middleweight finale in 2014. And he was surprisingly stopped in two rounds by Apollo Thompson in the Boxcino junior middleweight finale in 2015.
It was another three years before he returned. Again, he entered another tournament. At last, Adams triumphed in the fifth season of “The Contender,” widely outpointing Shane Mosley Jnr to win it all in 2018. That helped Adams land his only title shot to date, challenging Jermall Charlo for the WBC middleweight belt in 2019. Alas, Charlo nearly shut Adams out on the scorecards.
Adams then put together a four-fight winning streak, including an eighth-round TKO of the previously unbeaten Serhii Bohachuk in 2021. But a 37-month layoff followed. In 2024, he once again made it to a tournament finale while competing in Overtime Boxing’s junior middleweight competition. This one concluded with Adams getting the short end of a split decision against Andreas Katzourakis in that November 2024 finale.
But Adams scored a big win this past September, clearly outpointing a resurgent Bohachuk in their rematch. That helped land Adams high up in the rankings – he is No. 1 with the WBO, No. 2 with the WBC and No. 3 with the IBF – and put the 36-year-old resident of Los Angeles, California, in position for this title eliminator.
Agyarko, 18-0 (7 KOs), is a 29-year-old from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is ranked third by the WBA and fourth by the IBF.
Agyarko turned pro in late 2018. Five years later, he took a split decision over the 20-1-1 Troy Williamson in what at the time was the biggest win of Agyarko’s career. Most recently, he’s added two more decision victories against domestic-level opposition, getting a majority nod over the 19-5-1 Ryan Kelly last April and a razor-thin split decision against the 13-2 Ishmael Davis in September.
Agyarko was a late replacement in that Kelly bout – stepping in for Davis – and he fought more than half the bout with a cut over his left eye. He also had a marked up face against Davis, with swelling around his right eye. Agyarko was down in the 12th round against Davis, though that seemed more the result of being off-balance. Still, it could’ve been a disaster given how close the scorecards wound up being – the two judges who had it for Agyarko scored the bout 114-113.
This will be a step up in level of competition for Agyarko. Will he rise to the occasion?
Saturday, April 11: Vito Mielnicki vs. Omar Ulises Huerta (ProBox TV)
The broadcast begins at 7 p.m. Eastern Time (midnight BST).
Mielnicki, 22-1 (13 KOs), is a 23-year-old from Roseland, New Jersey, about two hours from this show at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. His lone loss came in 2021, when he dropped a majority decision to the 6-2 James Martin. Mielnicki moved up to middleweight last year and battled to a draw with the unbeaten Connor Coyle. That fight became a no contest after Coyle failed a drug test. Since then, Mielnicki has continued to take on previously undefeated foes, shutting out the 19-0 Kamil Gardzielik and scoring a ninth-round TKO against the 21-0 Samuel Nmomah.
Huerta is also undefeated at 15-0-1 (13 KOs). The 30-year-old hails from San Ysidro, California, with all of his pro fights to date taking place in or near Tijuana, Mexico. Huerta’s draw came in his most recent appearance, a six-rounder with the 8-9 Antonio Barajas Arballo almost exactly a year ago.
The undercard includes a battle of junior middleweight prospects Yan Marcos, 14-0 (10 KOs), and Dwyke Flemmings Jnr, 11-0 (10 KOs).
(Note: BoxingScene and ProBox are both owned by Garry Jonas.)
David Greisman, who has covered boxing since 2004, is on Twitter @FightingWords2. David’s book, “Fighting Words: The Heart and Heartbreak of Boxing,” is available on Amazon.
