A top junior lightweight titleholder in Mexico’s Miguel Berchelt is in action this weekend, but that is about all that is about to happen. Even worse, his fight is entirely an uninteresting squash match now on its third opponent. Roy Jones Jr is also supposedly having his retirement bout if that interests you.
Thursday, February 8th
Roy Jones Jr (65-9, 47 KOs) v Scott Sigmon (30-11-1, 16 KOs), cruiserweights – Florida – UFC Fight Pass, 8:30 PM Eastern
If we choose to believe him, this will be the final fight for the long washed up 49 year old legend of the sport. It has been nine years since Roy beat a washed up Jeff Lacy and he hasn’t picked up a win over a non-regional club fighter level opponent since. Given that both Lacy and Tito Trinidad the year before were entirely shot, you could argue that Roy last won a fight on a high level in 2003. Retirement has been a long time coming, but it is still a notable moment in the sport. UFC’s streaming service “Fight Pass” has picked this up. A free week’s trial is available and you might as well sign up and then cancel. Play around in the archives and watch some classic UFC too. There is nothing else in boxing to occupy your time.
Saturday, February 1oth
Miguel Berchelt (32-1, 28 KOs) v Maxwell Awuku (44-3-1, 30 KOs), WBC junior lightweight title & Jaime Munguia (26-0, 22 KOs) v Jose Carlos Paz (21-6-1, 12 KOs), middleweights & Pedro Campa (27-1, 19 KOs) v Ivan Alvarez (27-8, 17 KOs), junior welterweights – Mexico – BeIN Sports En Español, 11 PM Eastern
This is your big Saturday night card. Miguel Berchelt was supposed to originally defend against Cristian Mijares which was a semi-reasonable stay busy fight, but two opponents later we now have Maxwell Awuku of Ghana. The man is 0-2 outside of Africa, has no notable wins, and isn’t even beating locals with impressive records. This is going to end predictably. Jaime Munguia is a real fun, Margarito-like prospect to watch at least. He isn’t afraid to eat several shots to get his power in. Pedro Campa was until very recently also a prominent Mexican prospect, but he was upset via stoppage and is rebuilding.
Miguel Roman (58-12, 45 KOs) v Aristides Perez (31-10-2, 17 KOs), junior lightweights – Mexico – Televisa?
Miguel Roman is returning from what looked like a career altering stoppage win over Orlando Salido with a rather low key affair back in Mexico. The exciting brawler cannot possibly be in a bad fight, but I don’t really know how to watch this one. Boxrec lists it as on Televisa and I can find press releases saying the same thing. Strangely, however, Televisa’s guide on its own website doesn’t list the fight at all. We’ll see, I guess.
