Christian Mbilli will face Kevin Sadjo in an IBF tremendous middleweight title eliminator on a still-to-be-determined date to determine the necessary for champion William Scull.
JuliusJulianis studies that #3 IBF Mbilli (28-0, 23 KOs) and Sadjo (24-0, 21 KOs) will struggle subsequent. This match-up ought to go over nicely in France and Canada.
This doubtless means William Scull is within the pole place to problem unified tremendous middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez for Might on PPV. Canelo’s coach/supervisor, Eddy Reynoso, mentioned this week that Mbilli and Scull are the 2 candidates working for Alvarez’s subsequent struggle.
With Mbilli now out of the working, that leaves Scull (23-0,9 KOs), who isn’t practically the identical offensive menace to Canelo. Nonetheless, I don’t suppose anybody of their proper thoughts ever thought Canelo would choose Mbilli as his subsequent opponent, however he’s too good.
The 28-year-old Mbilli is far more of a menace to beat Canelo than the 37-year-old Terence Crawford as a result of he has dimension, energy, a excessive work charge, and youth. He’s not the kind of fighter that Canelo would volunteer to struggle until there was an enormous PPV quantity connected to the competition. There wouldn’t be.
Mbilli isn’t a star like Crawford. Once more, Mbilli is extra of a menace to Canelo than Terence as a result of he’s younger, highly effective, throws a variety of punches, and he’s a pure 168-pounder. He’s not some previous man shifting up two weight divisions for retirement cash.
The France-based, Cameron-born Sadjo, 34, is an eight-year professional with a resume barren of notable opposition. The one marginally first rate title on the 5’8″ Sadjo’s resume is Jack Cullen, a British domestic-level fighter, and never world class. It’s anybody’s guess why the Worldwide Boxing Federation gave Sadjo a #4 rating as a result of, primarily based on his flimsy resume, he must be ranked on the backside.
“The French from Y12 Promotions have received the public sale, and the IBF World Cup Qualifier for the tremendous middleweight of Christian Mbilli and Kevin Sadjo might be in Paris. Y12 bid a galactic $878k versus EOTT’s very sturdy $776k. The date might be made official shortly,” mentioned Julius Julianis on X.
