On June 12th in Los Angeles, two of the biggest social media influencers, Wideneck AKA DBD Wayne takes on Slap For Cash.

This is considered the biggest fight consisting two Social Media stars.

Slap For Cash is known for his slap-fights with Logan Paul as well as his viral videos with Snoop Dog. Wide Neck is famous for his Big Neck in his mugshot

The fight, along with a full undercard of Social Media Stars will air on Pay-Per-View

The show is presented by Celebrity Boxing, GSH Plus and Luxe Media Studios

Over the past decade, fighters from Eastern Europe have infiltrated and have become dominant fighters in the world of professional boxing. Fighters like Gennady Golovkin, Sergey Kovalev, brothers Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko, and Vasyl Lomachenko, to name a few, have become prominent and must-see television in the United States.

Last week it was announced that Bakhodir Jalolov signed a promotional contract with New York based Fight Promotions Inc., and will now ply his trade in the United States to join that exclusive list of european imports to realize their American Dream.

Jalolov has an impressive amateur pedigree and is considered to be one of the top prospects in the heavyweight division. At just 22 years old, Jalolov represented his country of Uzbekistan in the 2016 Olympics. Jalolov was so highly respected that he was given the coveted position of being the flag bearer for the games.

Jalolov utilizes his height by using a strong jab to keep his opponents at bay. He likes to mix it up as he is confident in his defensive prowess. The few times that Jalolov has been hit, he has shown an impeccable chin, and he has never been knocked down.

Jalolov plans to start his professional career very shortly, and he is definitely one to watch as we enter the next decade. He will be training with highly accomplished trainer Pedro Diaz in Miami, Florida.

Fight Promotions, Inc. also promotes Sergey Derevyanchenko, Ivan Baranchyk, Ivan Golub and Elnur Abduraimov to name a few.

While Anthony Joshua is in the dressing room on December 10 preparing for his IBF World Heavyweight title defence against Eric Molina, two more British boxers will be dreaming of also becoming a World Champion. British Heavyweight Champion Dillian Whyte defends his belt against former title holder Dereck Chisora with the winner in line for a shot at Deontay Wilder (below).

“Deontay Wilder” (CC BY-SA 2.0) by laytondudley

You wouldn’t excuse Whyte if he looked at the all the hype for Joshua’s second defence of his title with envious eyes. His only professional loss was to Joshua almost exactly a year ago but now he has the chance to further rebuild his career.

Many will rightfully say that Whyte gave Joshua the toughest fight of his career and there were times when it looked as he could have ended the future IBF Champion’s unbeaten record. Since that loss, Whyte has had to dust himself off and start all over again while watching Joshua’s star rise and rise. He’s been extremely vocal about wanting a return bout with Joshua but he still has a few steps up the ladder to climb before it could become a possibility, it all depends how long Joshua has to wait for Wladimir Klitschko to sign a contract.

Whyte waited six months before making his in-ring comeback, by which time Joshua had become World Champion. He returned with an inside the distance win over Ivica Bacurin and a month later outpointed David Allen to become WBC International Heavyweight Champion.

Title Glory
October saw him defeat Ian Lewison in a fight for the vacant British Heavyweight title. The last two holders of that title have gone on to become World Heavyweight Champion, can he make it a hat-trick? It would be easy for him to go down the route of trying to get a rematch with Joshua for the IBF belt and perhaps if he’d had some more high profile wins, he could have been considered to be taking on Joshua for a second December in a row rather than Molina.

Instead, Whyte has his sights set on WBC title holder Deontay Wilder, but first he must get past former British Champion Dereck Chisora at the Manchester Arena. It’s a good test for the current title holder and at the time of writing he’s 4/9 at Betway.be to keep his title. A win over Chisora won’t do his world title hopes any harm at all. Whyte knows how to get his fights in the news and has already stirred up his opponent by calling him a bully.

Last Chance Saloon for Chisora

Chisora last won this title in 2010 and a lot of water and controversy has gone under the bridge since then, that is for sure. It’s two years since he lost a terrible fight against Tyson Fury. He went into that fight as European Champion and the vacant British title (it does get vacated a fair bit, doesn’t it?) was also on the line.

With a poor performance that night, many questioned whether he could get back into world title contention again. He returned seven months later and squeezed in four wins against average opposition before the end of the year to keep his career alive. One more win followed before challenging Kubrat Pulev for the European title he once held and lost a split decision.
He’s not one to give up though is Chisora. The globetrotter headed to Sweden to knock out Drazan Janjan in a couple of rounds and now he has another chance to get back into the world title picture four years after that controversial weekend in Germany when he lost on points to Vitali Klitschko.

Whyte is obviously the boxer on the up even though he still lacks a win over a highly ranked opponent. He showed against Joshua last year that he has got a chance of success against most heavyweights. Whether he can step up to world class and get a title isn’t known yet. Chisora is a decent name to get on his record and perhaps a European title challenge would further boost his hopes of getting Wilder or even Joshua in the ring sometime in 2017.

Source: Wikimedia, photo by Darren Meacher

The action inside the ring may not always be thrilling but that can never be said about the build-up and aftermath of a Dereck Chisora fight. On December 10, he challenges Dillian Whyte for the British Heavyweight title and already the pair are having a battle of words.

Chisora has held the British and European Heavyweight titles in the past and took Vitali Klitschko the distance in a challenge for the World title. But it’s what he gets up to before and after his fights that often makes the headlines. This latest title challenge is already proving controversial and it’s not just Chisora who is being outspoken.

Whyte recently won the British title and knows that the last two holders of the Lonsdale belt, Fury and Joshua, have gone on to win a World Heavyweight title. It was almost a year ago that the British champion lost his unbeaten record to Joshua (as you can see in the video below) and now he’s on the supporting bill to Joshua’s World title defence against Eric Molina, At the time of writing, he’s 11/25 at 32red.com to retain his title and push for a World title shot.

Chisora has been involved in some unsavoury scenes before fights. Only he could spit water in the face of Wladimir Klitschko just minutes before taking on his brother for the World title. Now the British Boxing Board of Control are suggesting that Whyte and Chisora be kept apart from each other in the build-up to this title bout, which is also a WBC eliminator and could lead to a title clash with Deontay Wilder.

“Deontay Wilder” (CC BY-SA 2.0) by laytondudley

Why the concern? Well, the pair traded insults galore when appearing on Sky Sports’ The Gloves Are Off. Security guards had to be called in to separate the two boxers after a series of increasingly insulting comments were traded between the two. All good hype for Sky but not good news for boxing and this kind of behaviour really shouldn’t be tolerated from serial offenders.

Promoter Eddie Hearn still wants another showdown between the two before they meet in the ring and is sorting security out, but should it come to this? Perhaps we’ll see a return of the steel fence that was used to keep Chisora and possible future opponent David Haye apart when they met in 2012.

This could well be last-chance saloon for Dereck Chisora who already has six losses on his record including a European title loss this year. He is 9/5 with 32Red to regain his British title and pump life into a fading career. If Chisora wants to do that though he has to be a lot more positive than when he lost that European title challenge to Kubrat Pulev earlier this summer. It was the same story when he was defeated by Tyson Fury, with fans leaving the arena long before the end of the turgid bout. This could well be another of those fights that promise a lot and fail to deliver on the night.

The champion is promising to “put a stop” to his opponent’s career of after beating him in December. He wants an inside-the-distance win and told reporters that Chisora has been “nicking a living out of boxing and I think a lot of people want to see an end to him now. I’m looking forward to seeing him down on Thursday, collecting the bins in my neighbourhood after I put the beat down on him.”

Of course, Chisora isn’t having any of that or any of Whyte’s claims that he had the upper hand when sparring with him in the past. Always prepared to come out with a headline-catching statement, the former champion has been typically unpleasant in the build-up to this bout. This might just be his last chance to get back into title contention and perhaps get a shot against WBC Champion Deontay Wilder in the new year. Chisora seems convinced he can knock Whyte out and doesn’t feel his opponent has a “power punch”.

Other bookmakers also have Chisora as the underdog in this bout with Betway offering 7/4 and 888sport giving you 9/5 on the former champion causing a big upset. Chisora often disappoints when push comes to shove (excluding pre-match rows) and this card looks like seeing the careers of Joshua and Whyte continuing to blossom while Chisora fades out of title contention.

Wladimir Klitschko has been forced to pull out of a potential bout with Anthony Joshua in December after the Ukrainian picked up a minor injury in training.Both parties are still keen to sign a deal though with the date now likely to be in spring with the venue yet to be determined.

Klitschko has not fought in the ring since he lost his WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO belts to Tyson Fury last November in Dusseldorf. A rematch was set to take place between the two men this month, however, Fury was forced to pull out of that fight and subsequently has vacated his belts in the division.

With Klitschko without an opponent, Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Sport has been working hard to try and make the mega-fight with his IBF champion happen. It is unclear at this stage if the WBA belt will be on the line as the sanctioning body have yet to reveal their plans. The WBO title won’t be fought for however, as Joseph Parker and Andy Ruiz are set to meet for that belt in December.

Bookmakers have already opened up betting on the spring fight in which Joshua is 8/11 in the Bet365 boxing betting, while Klitschko is 11/10 to become a world champion again at the age of 40.

Joshua is still set to defend his IBF title in December in Manchester but his opponent has yet to be named. European champion Kubrat Pulev, David Price and American Eric Molina have all been linked with the card. Pulev won his European title with a victory over Britain’s Dereck Chisora back in May in a split decision for the vacant belt. The Bulgarian has one loss on his record which came against Klitschko in 2014 when the Ukrainian knocked him out in the fifth round.

Price, a former British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion, has been on the road to recovery ever since his two losses to Tony Thompson. He’s won six of his last seven bouts, with his only loss coming against Erkan Teper for the European title in Germany.

The Liverpudlian claims he has sparred with Joshua in the gym and has knocked the former Olympic gold medallist out before during those sessions. If Price gets a shot at Joshua for the IBF crown, it will be his first fight for a world title.

Molina, on the other hand, has challenged for a world title before. He was the challenger for Deontay Wilder’s WBC belt in June 2015 where he was stopped in the ninth round by the champion. Since then, he has had two wins, his latest coming over Tomasz Adamek to put himself in the reckoning for another world title shot.
Whoever Hearn chooses as Joshua’s next opponent, the team will be very confident their man can come through the test and keep alive a mega fight with Klitschko in the spring for the IBF crown and still possibly the WBA title, if the latter’s sanctioning body are happy enough to wait until 2017 for their belt to be fought for.