Hamzah Sheeraz vs. Liam Williams: Date, time, how to watch, background

HAMZAH SHEERAZ (18-0, 14 KOs)VS. LIAM WILLIAMS (25-4-1, 20 KOS)

Date: Saturday, Feb. 10
Time: 2 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. PT (essential occasion later in present)
The place: Copper Field Area, London
TV/Stream: ESPN+
Division: Middleweight (160 kilos)
At stake: No main titles
Pound-for-pound: None
Odds: Sheeraz 4-1 favourite (common of a number of shops)
Significance (as much as 5 stars): ***
Additionally on the cardboard: Sam Noakes vs. Lewis Sylvester, lightweights; Anthony Yarde vs. Marko Nikolic, mild heavyweights; Masood Abdulah vs. Qais Ashfaq, featherweights
Background: Sheeraz has dominated marginal opponents, together with knockouts in his final 12 fights. Now comes what might be a real check within the type of veteran Liam Williams. Sheeraz is a 6-foot-3 middleweight contender from England with each boxing means and formidable punching energy, as his KO file suggests. The 24-year-old final fought on Aug. 26, when he stopped beforehand unbeaten Dmytro Mytrofanov in two rounds in Poland. None of his final 4 opponents has lasted 5 full rounds with him. Williams, 31, is also a rugged, hard-punching contender. The Welshman bounced again from back-to-back losses to Liam Smith to earn a shot at then-middleweight champ Demetrius Andrade’s title in 2021 however got here up quick in his solely title combat, shedding a one-sided determination. He then misplaced a transparent determination to Chris Eubank Jr., which threatened his profession as an elite fighter. Nonetheless, he subsequently defeated journeymen Nizar Trimech and Florin Cardos to earn a minimum of another large combat.