The weekend is approaching, and from Friday to Sunday it will be “fight hour” somewhere in the world. Every Thursday, The Ring will bring you the most up-to-date information on the most relevant must-see fights in this week-at-a-glance, one-stop enhanced fight schedule. A quick checklist for the cognoscenti, a useful nuts-and-bolts guide for the boxing neophyte is what we’re aiming for.
Here are this week’s most relevant fights:
Friday, August 23 – Club El Porvenir, Quilmes, Argentina
Jeremiah Ponce vs Alexis Torres – Junior Welterweight – 10 rounds
Leonel Ávila against David Benítez – super middleweight – 8 rounds
Lorenzo Gerez vs. Matías Gallucci – junior middleweight – 8 rounds
Where to watch it: ESPN (Latin America)
Friday, August 23 – Seminole Hard Rock Hotel, Hollywood, Fla.
Yosdiel Napoles vs Frank Zaldivar – Lightweight – 10 rounds
Maureen Shea vs. Judit Hachbold – women’s junior featherweight – 8 rounds
Kevin Castillo vs Alexy De La Cruz – Lightweight – 6 rounds
Friday, 23 August – Emperor’s Palace, Kempton Park, South Africa
Ricardo Malajika vs. Yanga Sigqibo – junior bantamweight – 12 rounds
Chris Thompson vs Alexandru Jur – Heavyweight – 12 rounds
Friday, August 23 – Casino Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sebastian Papeschi vs Giodanny Jimenez – Middleweight – 10 rounds
Jairo Suarez vs. Giovanni Scuderi – Heavyweight – 10 rounds
Jacqueline Calvo vs. Maria Magdalena Rivera – Women’s Flyweight – 10 rounds
Jaime Villegas vs Daniel Combi – Lightweight – 8 rounds
DeAndre Savage vs. Esteban Ramon Juarez – Heavyweight – 8 rounds
Veronica Zuluaga vs. Lucrecia Arrieta – Women’s Bantamweight – 8 rounds
Where to watch it: TyCSportsPlay
Saturday, August 24 – Arena Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City
Floyd Mayweather vs. John Gotti III – 8 rounds
It’s bad enough to be forced to recognize it as a proper boxing card, even for the sake of all the talented fighters that will appear in the undercard. It’s even worse knowing that we’re going to be stuck trying to explain this garbage fire to casual boxing fans who think it’s a proper boxing fight. The “no weight limit” tag on this cute little scam of a fight should be a warning shot to anyone with a basic knowledge of the sport. The “exhibition” part will make people wonder what exactly is on display. And the “rematch” bit should really be a “rubber match” tag, since these two had an infamous boxing match the first time around, followed by an immediate replay after the final bell that was just as action-packed as the fight itself, and just as awful too.
What to expect in this fight: Some will see a nice opportunity to see a boxing circus, I see an opportunity to watch a great undercard and then go to bed a little earlier than usual.
Also on this map:
Alan Picasso vs. Azat Hovhannisyan – junior featherweight – 12 rounds
Luis Rodríguez vs. Cesar Vaca – super middleweight – 10 rounds
Silvia Torres vs. Cecilia Rodriguez – Women’s Strawweight – 10 rounds
Aaron Silva vs. Alfonso Flores – Super Middleweight – 10 rounds
Curmel Moton vs Victor Vazquez – Lightweight – 8 rounds
Luis Arias vs Francisco Rios Amezquita – Middleweight – 8 rounds
Where to watch it: DAZN PPV
Saturday August 24 – Yamato Arena, Osaka, Japan
Lerato Dlamini vs. Tomoki Kameda – Featherweight – 12 rounds
Kenbun Torres vs. KJ Cataraja – bantamweight – 10 rounds
Yudai Shigeoka vs. Samuel Salva – junior flyweight – 10 rounds
August 24 – The Met, Philadelphia
Isaiah Johnson vs Andrew Rodgers – Junior Welterweight – 8 rounds
Bryant Jennings vs Joel Caudle – Heavyweight – 8 rounds
Avious Griffin vs. William Jackson – Welterweight – 8 rounds
Erron Peterson vs Ashton Sykes – Middleweight – 6 rounds
Where to watch it: ThrillerTV
Saturday, August 24 – Wolfgang Lakenmacher HallMagdeburg, Germany
Roman Fress vs. Yasin Basar – Cruiserweight – 10 rounds
Marlon Dzemski vs Marco Martini – Welterweight – 10 rounds
Saturday, August 24 – Casino Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nazarena Romero vs. Paulette Valenzuela – Women’s Junior Featherweight – 10 rounds
Chann Thonson vs. Neri Muñoz – Lightweight – 10 rounds
Joshua Aguero vs. Jorge Luis Martinez – Junior Lightweight – 10 rounds
Trevor Thonson vs. Pablo Villafañe – Lightweight – 8 rounds
Where to watch it: TyCSportsPlay/DAZN
Wednesday 28 August – ICC Theatre, Sydney, Australia
Conor Wallace vs. Jerome Pampellone – Light Heavyweight – 12 rounds
Nikita Tszyu vs Koen Mazoudier – junior middleweight – 10 rounds
Michael Zerafa vs. Tommy Browne – Junior Middleweight – 8 rounds
Jasmine Parr vs. Amber Amelia – women’s junior bantamweight – 10 rounds
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How to watch boxing in 2023 – By Diego Morilla
Diego M. Morilla has written for The Ring since 2013. He has also written for HBO.com, ESPN.com and many other magazines, websites, newspapers and outlets since 1993. He is a full member of the Boxing Writers Association of America and a voter for the International Boxing Hall of Fame. He has won two first-place awards in the BWAA’s annual writing contest, and he is the moderator of The Ring’s Women’s Ratings Panel. He served as copy editor for the second era of The Ring en Español (2018-2020) and is currently a writer and editor for RingTV.com.
