On Sunday night there is action from the US on Sky Box Office as Floyd Mayweather squares up against Logan Paul in an exhibition.
Boxing fans have poured scorn on Mayweather's latest move and seeing a 44-year-old legend of the sport taking on a YouTuber who has yet to win a fight is certainly not everyone's cup of tea, including mine. However, Mayweather loves a dollar bill more than most and he is getting plenty of them for almost zero amount of risk here, so it seems a smart move on his part.
Thankfully, there is some real action on the bill and after Jean Pascal failed a drugs test ahead of his rematch with Badou Jack, the focus is now on JARRETT HURD against Luis Arias.
After three defences of his light middleweight titles, Hurd lost a surprise decision to Julian Williams in May 2019 and has only fought once since - a unanimous decision win over Francisco Santana in January this year. That will have shaken off the rust and odds of 1/12 reflect how he is fully expected to have too much for Arias (7/1), but whether he can stop his fellow American at 4/6 is the big question.
The underdog hasn't fought for nearly two years and has failed to register a win in his last three outings, but those two defeats and one draw all went the distance and one of them was against the world class Daniel Jacobs. He has also been competing at middleweight and above for his whole professional career, in which he won his first 18 bouts before that Jacobs loss, and is used to taking on bigger men than Hurd. While any plans of wining may eventually go out the window and see him enter into survival mode, Arias could know enough and be big enough to stick around until the final bell. Hurd by decision is 8/5 and appeals much more than the odds-on about him getting it done inside the distance.
We should begin to find out what DANIEL DUBOIS is all about as he begins his recovery process against Bogdan Dinu on Saturday night
The Greenwich man tasted defeat for the first time as a professional when beaten into submission by Joe Joyce in an enthralling domestic dust-up in November, as the constant punishment of his opponent's thudding jab caused severe damage and swelling to the left eye of Dubois. It proved one left-hand lead too many in the 10th round as he took a knee and never beat the count.
The physical scars may have healed but we are yet to find out if the mental ones have and it is far from certain that he is still the same fighter as he was before that loss. The heavyweight division is littered with examples of fighters who have never been the same after their first loss, especially big-punching ones who have their aura of intimidation and invincibility taken away. Similar to the way Dubois did in his first 15 bouts, David Price was blasting his way through the glamour division and hailed as Britain's next heavyweight star until he was knocked out by Tony Thompson, and was damaged goods thereafter.
For Dubois, it has sparked a change in trainer and he starts afresh under the guidance of Shane McGuigan, who already has a fine CV as a coach despite his relative youth. It a best price of 1/18 that the pair get their working relationship off to a winning start against Dinu, who can be backed at 10/1.
Posted at 1615 BST on 04/06/21
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