For fans of boxing weeks of great boxing await. A month has begun in which the best boxers pound for pound they will enter the most prestigious rings in the world. With a time zone that is not always easy and often in pay per view, but also in Italy you will be able to follow the matches, some of which have been long awaited. May becomes the month of boxing. We start on Saturday 4th with the Mexican Saul “Canelo” Alvarezperhaps the strongest boxer of recent years, who faces his compatriot Jaime Munguia on the eve of the most heartfelt holiday in their country. They will do it to Las Vegas with the world championship belts up for grabs Super Middleweight of the four most important acronyms. Munguia, zero defeats in her career and six years younger, she will be able to defeat the mito Mexican? Probably not, otherwise it would be the beginning of the end of a historical cycle for Canelo. The meeting will be available from 2am on May 5th Dazn at the additional cost (in addition to the subscription) of 19,90 euro.
His nickname is the monsterJapanese Naoya Inoue he really has everything in his repertoire, as well as punches that hurt (26 victories, 23 by knockout, zero defeats). To the historian Tokyo Dome puts the Super Gallo belts up for grabs with Luis Nery. In his career Inoue has unified the singles before the bantamweights, then the super bantamweights and soon he should try to move up the category again. Nery is an excellent boxer with a good record (only one defeat in 36 matches), but Inoue at home in Japan seems to him really unbeatable. You can follow the meeting on Monday 6 May starting from eleven in the morning on Mola streaming platform (subscription is enough, it’s not pay per view). On May 12 the Ukrainian Vasyl Lomachenko tackles in lightweight George Kambosos Jr: Ibf and Ibo belts up for grabs at the Rac Arena in Pert. Loma is 36 years old, he comes from the defeat a year ago with Devin Haney and since then he hasn’t fought anymore, and this may be the unknown, but his class is superior to that of the Australian, who had his peak in the victory over Teofimo Lopez at Madison Square Garden in 2021. Free viewing with subscription at Cool TV late Sunday morning.
Il May 18th is the turn of the queen category, the one followed even by the most lukewarm fans. For the heavyweights they face each other at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh the undefeated Tyson Fury e Oleksandr Usyk. Five world championship belts are up for grabs. The match was supposed to take place a few months ago, but a injury of Fury during sparring blew it. This misadventure and the unconvincing victory in October against Francis Ngannou, cast doubts on the Englishman’s form. But if he arrived perfectly done, he’s the one favorite on Usyk, a great champion (he currently holds four of the five belts) but who until a few years ago fought in cruiser, the lower category. In short, physically there is none. A victory for Fury would perhaps open up space for an all-English derby with Anthony Joshua. You can watch the meeting from 6pm on Saturday on pay per view on Dazn at a cost of 19.90the main meeting will be around 10pm.
Let’s move on by a day, and go to the first of June because it’s always a Riyadh a beautiful match will be played, it could be the best of the lot, even if the names are not as glamorous as those of Canelo e Fury. For medium heavyweights the Russian, born in Kyrgyzstan but resident in the United States, Dmitrii Bivol faces the Canadian, born in Russia, Artur Beterbiev. Both without the shadow of a defeat, two world belts one after the other: the challenge will be tense. Beterbiev is very dangerous and can resolve the match with one shot but he has not yet faced a boxer with the technique and speed of Buffalo, and the latter is precisely the man to beat. Still Dazn to broadcast the meeting, unfortunately again for a fee, at good times for Italy. The key match will be in prime time. From what we have seen lately in the boxing world (trivial injuries in the last few weeks or the weight not reached on the eve as in the case of Ryan Garcia) it won’t be surprising if he misses a match or the title at the last minute. In the meantime, those who love boxing can mark these five events in their calendar, set their alarm clocks and reach for their wallets.