Christian Mbilli v Sergiy Derevyanchenko August Seventeenth

[TIC]

osleys iglesias v sena agbeko also on the card

[Ivan Zhelezo]

Derevyanchenko is never easy fight

[TIC]

[Spicoli]

This will absolutely 100 percent be an entertaining fight. Mbilli will burn bright as long as he lasts career wise but he is also pretty cut and dry with approach. Great offence and drive but a sparse record and not hard to miss. Would love to see Serigy finally win a bigger match up. You simply are hard pressed to find a more top quality opponent 20 fight record on another fighter today than the one he has logged.

[Ivan Zhelezo]

Derevyanchenko is best recent boxer to not win title. Shop worn now though if Mbilli can stop I will be impressed

[Master]

Remember the name, Abdullah Mason. We could be looking at the next Terence Crawford.

Christian Mbilli tops the bill in a super middleweight clash against Sergiy Derevyanchenko in Quebec on Saturday night, but lightweight Mason, who takes on Mike Ohan Jnr, is the one they are talking about.

Mason hails from Bedford near Cleveland, Ohio, part of America’s old industrial heartland and a hotbed of fighting. He is only 20 but has already racked up 14 straight wins, 12 by KO.

This will be his fourth fight of the year. His last bout was only a month ago. I love that about him. I fought 12 times in my first year. It’s not about money at this stage. It’s about being busy. And getting experience under your belt.

Like Crawford, Mason is a southpaw. He has the same class and guile as Crawford but is intuitively more attacking. He likes to get the job done, standing in the pocket and moving neatly in and out of distance. He throws neat combinations and rips that backhand into the stomach.

He also has great accuracy, and a dangerous right hook. I like the way he turns the hands when he lands it, really making it stick. Devin Haney, Ryan Garcia and Shakur Stevenson are the ultimate targets, but with kids like him, you need to bring them on at the right pace, but that level is where he is heading.

Our fighter Adam Azim is in that mix too. He would jump in with any of the above now. It is the easiest thing in the world to get the timing wrong. But at some point you have to take that risk.

Mason jumps off the television screen like all the great ones. Crawford won his first title at lightweight against Ricky Burns in Glasgow a decade ago now. Last week Crawford fought for the first time at super welterweight, a full 19 pounds heavier.

At 5ft 9ins, Mason has the frame to follow Crawford through the divisions too. Indeed the eight-rounder against Ohan is two pounds above the lightweight limit at a catchweight 137 pounds, perhaps pointing to an early step up.

Ohan’s old man, Mike ‘Bad Man’ Ohan was a former sparring partner of Marvelous Marvin Hagler. But that’s as close as either father or son have come to greatness. Not so Mason, I’d wager.

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