Next weekend (May 20th) is stacked !!

[Andrew]

LOAAADS of good fights this coming weekend.

Over here we have Davis v Walsh which I think has the potential to be a classic.

Stateside HBO and showtime have cards.

Crawford against arguably his best opponent in Felix Diaz on allegedly

Showtime see IMO the biggest waste of talent in boxing Gary Russell Jr return, but the undercard fights interest me.

Barthélemy fights ex burns opponent Relikh in an final eliminator for Indongo . Personally think Barthélemy will make him look a fool

Dirrell v uzcategui where the winner is the immediate mandatory for Degale. Uzcategui may cause the upset go watch his fight with Julius Jackson ( son of Julian) to see why, extremely aggressive fighter.

I hope sky pick that up.

Then in Japan I see there is a card with two world title fights and a WBA regular. 2012 gold medalist Murata faces his first proper acid test v NDam ( I think NDam will do the upset). Then two unbeaten young Japanese fighters go for their first world titles Higa at flyweight and Shiro at lightfly both for WBC versions.

The weekend also sees boxings youngest world champion Kosei tanaka defend against boxrec top 10 Acosta who has a 100% KO record. Then on the Sunday Inoue has a pretty easy looking defence and Yaegashi defends but not sure if that is a good fight.

[davie]

Barthélemy fights ex burns opponent Relikh in an final eliminator for Indongo . Personally think Barthélemy will make him look a fool

Assuming you mean he'll make Relikh look a fool.
Think Barthelmy vs Indongo could be interesting from what little I've seen of them both

[ElJefe]

Is there anything else of interest on the Crawford card?

[Boxing Prospect]

Boxrec are missing a lot of Japanese stuff, Ogido vs Heno on Sunday for example =/

[MightyWarrior]

Yes really looking forward to this weekend just for the classic matchup of Davis Walsh, Plus always a pleasure to watch Terence Crawford although I don't see how this guy is anything like his best opponent to be honest, not much of a puncher either by the looks of it.. although I haven't seen him, so he's very good ? Undercard is ho hum

[Oiky]

Going to be a good weekends boxing

[Boxing Prospect]

Btw Tanaka vs Acosta will have a Free and Legal stream from the Japanese broadcasters - http://cbc-global.jp/sports/

[Stuarty]

Btw Tanaka vs Acosta will have a Free and Legal stream from the Japanese broadcasters - http://cbc-global.jp/sports/

Is the N'Dam v Murata card on tv mate?

[Boxing Prospect]

Btw Tanaka vs Acosta will have a Free and Legal stream from the Japanese broadcasters - http://cbc-global.jp/sports/

Is the N'Dam v Murata card on tv mate?

All the other Japanese world title bouts are on Fuji TV. The Tanaka fight is headed by CBC who streamed the Fuentes fight to. Was announced until this week but Tanaka vs Acosta will be aired in Tokyo on TBS, there was worries that it wasn't going to shown outside of Chubu.

There is no official Fuji tv stream.

[Andrew]

Btw Tanaka vs Acosta will have a Free and Legal stream from the Japanese broadcasters - http://cbc-global.jp/sports/

Is the N'Dam v Murata card on tv mate?

Can't see how odds yet but I really fancy Ndam will win maybe by stoppage.

Murata for an Olympic gold medalist has had matchmaking to suggest he is very suspect.

[GlobalBox]

Btw Tanaka vs Acosta will have a Free and Legal stream from the Japanese broadcasters - http://cbc-global.jp/sports/

How do you see the bouts at the weekend in Japan BP, your the man for boxing on those shores, be interested to know what you think.

[Boxing Prospect]

Btw Tanaka vs Acosta will have a Free and Legal stream from the Japanese broadcasters - http://cbc-global.jp/sports/

How do you see the bouts at the weekend in Japan BP, your the man for boxing on those shores, be interested to know what you think.

The easiest to predict is Inoue inside the distance, the rest are all AMAZINGLY competitive and tough looking bouts...
Would go with Hernandez (Vs Higa - despite fornicating loving Higa!), Ken Shiro (Vs Lopez), Murata (vs N'Dam), Tanaka (Vs Acosta) and Yaegashi (vs Meldino), but they are 60-40 type of bouts and that's arguable whats makes it all so good. And for fans in Japan they are all on free TV!

[GlobalBox]

Btw Tanaka vs Acosta will have a Free and Legal stream from the Japanese broadcasters - http://cbc-global.jp/sports/

How do you see the bouts at the weekend in Japan BP, your the man for boxing on those shores, be interested to know what you think.

The easiest to predict is Inoue inside the distance, the rest are all AMAZINGLY competitive and tough looking bouts...
Would go with Hernandez (Vs Higa - despite effing loving Higa!), Ken Shiro (Vs Lopez), Murata (vs N'Dam), Tanaka (Vs Acosta) and Yaegashi (vs Meldino), but they are 60-40 type of bouts and that's arguable whats makes it all so good. And for fans in Japan they are all on free TV!

Cheers mate, sounds a decent weekend indeed.

[GlobalBox]

How do you see the bouts at the weekend in Japan BP, your the man for boxing on those shores, be interested to know what you think.

The easiest to predict is Inoue inside the distance, the rest are all AMAZINGLY competitive and tough looking bouts...
Would go with Hernandez (Vs Higa - despite effing loving Higa!), Ken Shiro (Vs Lopez), Murata (vs N'Dam), Tanaka (Vs Acosta) and Yaegashi (vs Meldino), but they are 60-40 type of bouts and that's arguable whats makes it all so good. And for fans in Japan they are all on free TV!

Cheers mate, sounds a decent weekend indeed.

What sort of time are these BP, are they all in the evening Japanese time, want to see if I can get any time to follow them if possible.

[Boxing Prospect]

The easiest to predict is Inoue inside the distance, the rest are all AMAZINGLY competitive and tough looking bouts...
Would go with Hernandez (Vs Higa - despite effing loving Higa!), Ken Shiro (Vs Lopez), Murata (vs N'Dam), Tanaka (Vs Acosta) and Yaegashi (vs Meldino), but they are 60-40 type of bouts and that's arguable whats makes it all so good. And for fans in Japan they are all on free TV!

Cheers mate, sounds a decent weekend indeed.

What sort of time are these BP, are they all in the evening Japanese time, want to see if I can get any time to follow them if possible.

Full details were posted here
http://www.asianboxing.info/asian-news/ ... ng-weekend

[Andrew]

Another fight under the radar is David Benevidez v Porky Medina ( who gave James Degale a good fight)

Benevidez is only 20 big step up this.

[Andrew]

Btw Tanaka vs Acosta will have a Free and Legal stream from the Japanese broadcasters - http://cbc-global.jp/sports/

How do you see the bouts at the weekend in Japan BP, your the man for boxing on those shores, be interested to know what you think.

The easiest to predict is Inoue inside the distance, the rest are all AMAZINGLY competitive and tough looking bouts...
Would go with Hernandez (Vs Higa - despite effing loving Higa!), Ken Shiro (Vs Lopez), Murata (vs N'Dam), Tanaka (Vs Acosta) and Yaegashi (vs Meldino), but they are 60-40 type of bouts and that's arguable whats makes it all so good. And for fans in Japan they are all on free TV!

If all goes well this weekend every single belt holder at light fly could be from Japan.
Hopefully that brings a unification at NYE.

[boxingknockout]

How do you see the bouts at the weekend in Japan BP, your the man for boxing on those shores, be interested to know what you think.

The easiest to predict is Inoue inside the distance, the rest are all AMAZINGLY competitive and tough looking bouts...
Would go with Hernandez (Vs Higa - despite effing loving Higa!), Ken Shiro (Vs Lopez), Murata (vs N'Dam), Tanaka (Vs Acosta) and Yaegashi (vs Meldino), but they are 60-40 type of bouts and that's arguable whats makes it all so good. And for fans in Japan they are all on free TV!

If all goes well this weekend every single belt holder at light fly could be from Japan.
Hopefully that brings a unification at NYE.

I know you like your Jap boxing, but I really don't think I could be less excited by any other boxing occurrence

[Boxing Prospect]

The Japanese press have spoken about the potential unification at 108 for a while, so fingers crossed!