Eddie has signed former unified light-weight champion George Kambosos Jr. (21-3, 10 KOs) to a co-promotional take care of Matchroom Boxing.
It’s unclear what number of fights Hearn has signed the 31-year-old Kambosos Jr. to, nevertheless it’s doubtless two or three at greatest. He desires to match the Aussie Kambosos towards IBF mild Welterweight champion Liam Paro, who’s victorious in his title protection on December seventh towards Richardson Hitchins.
Paro can be from Australia, and a battle between him and Kambosos would herald good PPV numbers in that nation. Nonetheless, it wouldn’t promote within the UK or the U.S., so hopefully, that’s not one thing that performs out.
Kambosos has misplaced three out of his final 4 fights since 2022. In his case, it’s not a shot fighter, removed from it. It’s extra a scenario of him going through higher fighters, who uncovered him to be a fringe-level fighter.
Kambosos is a basic instance of a one-hit marvel, a fighter who pulled off an upset over Teofimo Lopez in 2021, and it’s been all downhill since. He was by no means speculated to beat Teofimo, however he caught him coming off a protracted layoff, under-motivated, and unprepared for a hungry fighter. If there had been a rematch, Teofimo would in all probability win.
Initially, it was thought that Hearn would feed Kambosos a tomato can for his first battle with Matchroom after which look to match him towards Teofimo in a rematch or use him for Devin Haney to get the rust out in a trilogy. However with Hearn saying he desires Kambosos towards Liam Paro, that would imply that he signed him to a one or two-fight deal. It wouldn’t make sense for Hearn to signal Kambosos Jr to a three-fight contract as a result of he must shield him to maintain him from shedding repeatedly.
Kambosos was knocked out within the eleventh spherical in his final battle by Vasily Lomachenko on Could twelfth. Earlier than that, he received a extremely controversial 12-round majority determination over Maxi Hughes on July twenty second, 2023. Many followers felt Hughes ought to have received that battle as a result of he dominated Kambosos.
“The 140lbs division is plagued by massive names and nice potential clashes, and including George to that blend solely raises the degrees – with a possible battle towards Liam Paro an actual mouth-watering prospect, if Liam can get the win in an awesome battle with Richardson on December 7,” mentioned Eddie Hearn.
