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Welcome to this week’s edition of The Fight With Teddy Atlas Newsletter, your one stop shop for all things combat sports related, brought to you by Teddy and The Fight team.
Teddy Atlas and co-host Ken Rideout breakdown upcoming and potential fights along with UFC's recent main event of Mackenzie Dern vs Yan Xiaonan. Teddy also takes a minute to respond to Shakur Stevenson's comments on Twitter insulting Teddy after Teddy was critical of Stevenson's fight against Robson…
Every Friday We Bring You:
A combat sports news digest with all the headlines you need to know from Boxing and Mixed Martial Arts.
Highlights from the podcast and across the fight world.
Fight times and information you need to know ahead of time.
How to’s and tips for Boxing from Teddy himself.
Fight News From Around The 🌍
Amateur boxing world governing body lifts ban on Russian and Belarusian boxers.
Former UFC star Uriah Hall to make boxing debut against Le'Veon Bell.
Joe Cordina stripped of IBF Featherweight title following hand injury.
Rafael Dos Anjos finalised to fight Bryan Barbarena Dec. 3rd in Orlando.
Leon Edwards rules out ever fighting Israel Adesanya at middleweight.
Oscar De La Hoya insists that Canelo will never face David Benavidez at super middleweight.
The Towering Inferno Returns
Sebastian Fundora is fast becoming one of boxings biggest attractions.
He's taken a step beyond being a curiosity due to his 6"7 super-welterweight frame, in part thanks to his so far marquee win against fellow top 154 pounder Erickson Lubin back in April.
The "Towering Inferno" had to overcome adversity in being dropped for the first time in his career, before rallying to stop Lubin after rendering his face a bloody mess, capturing the WBC "interim" welterweight title in the process.
On Saturday night, he will try to consolidate his position as interim champion in a category that has Jermell Charlo as the undisputed champion.
A win against opponent Carlos Ocampo could take him a step closer to his goal of fighting for a full world title at 154 lbs.
Ocampo is seasoned, with 35 fights under his belt at only 26 years of age.
His only loss so far came to a certain Errol Spence Jr down at welterweight, where Spence ko'd him with a devastating body shot with only seconds to go in the first round.
Since then he's racked up 12 victories, 9 of which were inside the distance.
Albeit they were against relatively poor opposition, but there's no question that this is a different fighter to that that lost of pound for pound regular Spence Jr 5 years ago.
What to look for in the fight:
Inside fighting. Fundora may have a freakish 7-foot wingspan, but he doesn't like to use it and prefers to work at mid-to close range against opponents. Expect most of the fight to take part here.
Body shots. No one has had great success targeting Fundora to the body yet, but Ocampo should see this as his best path to victory. Look for him to slow down the onward charge of Fundora by targeting his midsection.
Eubank Jr vs Benn is OFF
The grudge match between generational rivals Chris Eubank Jr and Conor Benn has been officially postponed to an undisclosed date, following Conor Benn returning a positive test for a banned substance.
Despite the insistence from both the promoters and the Eubank Jr camp that they still wanted the fight to go ahead, Eddie Hearn's Matchroom Boxing have announced that the fight will not be going ahead as planned.
Benn tested positive for clomifene, which is typically used as a female infertility drug, but is on the UK Anti Doping banned list of substances.
All undercard fights have also been rescheduled pending new dates.
The fight was scheduled to be at 157 lbs, with Eubank Jr coming down from 160 lbs and Benn moving up 10 lbs from weltwerweight.
Tank vs Ryan Imminent?
Whilst other fights fall through, it looks as if there are positive discussions underway for what would be one of the best fights to make in all of boxing.
Teddy gives his unmissable insights in the video below.
Fight ⏰ for this weekend
Boxing: Fundora vs Ocampo (Saturday 8th/Sunday 9th)
🇺🇸 Full Card: 10pm Eastern/ 7pm Pacific | Main Event: 12am Eastern/ 9pm Pacific
🇬🇧 Full Card: 3am | Main Event: 5am
🇦🇺 Full Card: 1pm Eastern/ 11am Western | Main Event: 3pm Eastern/ 1pm Western
Boxing: Eggington vs Hogan (Saturday 8th/Sunday 9th)
🇺🇸 Full Card: 5am Eastern/ 2am Pacific | Main Event: 7am Eastern/ 4am Pacific
🇬🇧 Full Card: 10am | Main Event: 12pm
🇦🇺 Full Card: 8pm Eastern/ 6pm Western | Main Event: 10pm Eastern/ 8pm Western