GEORGE KAMBOSOS JR. has a brand new weight class and a brand new co-promoter.
Boxing Information has discovered that Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing has partnered with DiBella Leisure, Kambosos’ longtime promoter, to signify the previous unified light-weight champion. Australia’s Kambosos is predicted to maneuver as much as the tremendous light-weight division for his subsequent combat as effectively, which can happen on an undetermined date in February at an Australian website to be chosen in Brisbane or Gold Coast.
Montreal’s Mathieu Germain, 25-2-1 (10 KOs), is the front-runner to field Kambosos subsequent in the principle occasion of a card DAZN is predicted to stream worldwide. Kambosos, 21-3 (10 KOs), final competed on Might 12, when three-division champion Vasiliy Lomachenko, 18-3 (12 KOs), stopped him within the 11th spherical of their combat for the then-vacant IBF light-weight title at RAC Enviornment in Perth, Australia.
The 31-year-old Kambosos is 1-3 in his previous 4 fights, together with back-to-back lopsided factors losses to former undisputed light-weight champ Devin Haney in 2022.
Sydney’s Kambosos nonetheless stays a marketable boxer in Australia. Hearn subsequently might assist prepare an all-Australia showdown between Kambosos and Liam Paro if Brisbane’s Paro, 25-0 (15 KOs), efficiently defends his IBF tremendous light-weight title in opposition to necessary challenger Richardson Hitchins, 18-0 (7 KOs), on December 7 at Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Kambosos wins his upcoming match.
Along with co-promoting Kambosos, Matchroom represents Paro and New York’s Hitchins, the necessary challenger for Paro’s championship.
Although the date and website hadn’t been solidified as of Thursday morning, Boxing Information has additionally confirmed that the cardboard Kambosos is ready to headline in February may even embody two girls’s world championship matches. In a kind of bouts, Australian southpaw Skye Nicholson, 12-0 (1 KO), will make a mandated defence of her WBC featherweight title in opposition to American Tiara Brown, 17-0 (11 KOs), of Lehigh Acres, Florida.
England’s Nina Hughes, 6-1 (2 KOs), may even try and avenge her controversial 10-round, majority-decision defeat to Australia’s Cherneka Johnson, 16-2 (6 KOs), on the identical night time because the Nicholson-Brown bout. Johnson gained the WBA bantamweight title from Hughes on the Lomachenko-Kambosos undercard.
