By Dan Ambrose: WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson (27-1, 22 KOs) made easy work of #9 WBC Tommy Karpency (25-5-1, 14 KOs) in stopping him in the 3rd round to retain his WBC title on Premier Boxing Champions on Spike at the Ricoh Coliseum, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Stevenson, 37, knocked Karpency down with a big left hand to the head at the end of the 2nd round.
By Dan Ambrose: WBC 175lb champion Adonis Stevenson (26-1, 21 KOs) will be inside the ring tonight to defend his WBC title against American southpaw Tommy Karpency (25-4-1, 14 KOs) on Premier Boxing Champions on Spike from the Ricoh Coliseum, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Stevenson-Karpency card will start at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT. It’s on free television for Americans, so it’s a really good deal.
Karpency is going to need a knockout to get a victory tonight because he does not have the talent to match-up with Stevenson in a head to head battle. If Karpency is smart, he’ll be swinging for the fences from the first minute of the first round.
By Dan Ambrose: WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis “Superman” Stevenson (26-1, 21 KOs) and challenger Tommy Karpency (25-4-1, 14 KOs) made weight on Thursday for their fight on Premier Boxing Champions on Spike on Friday from the Ricoh Coliseum, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
By Dan Ambrose: WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis “Superman” Stevenson (26-1, 21 KOs) will be defending his title this Friday night on September 11th against #9 WBC Tommy Karpency (25-4-1, 14 KOs) in a voluntary defense on Premier Boxing Champions on Spike TV from the Ricoh Coliseum, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Also on the card is #8 WBA welterweight contender Errol Spence Jr. (17-0, 14 KOs) fighting a tough opponent in #7 IBF Chris Van Heerden (23-1-1, 12 KOs) in a 10 round bout. Also on the card is 51-year-old heavyweight Donovan “Razor” Ruddock (40-5-1, 30 KOs) fighting Dillon Carman (8-2, 7 KOs) in a 10 round bout.
By Dan Ambrose: Unbeaten #8 WBA welterweight contender Errol Spence Jr. (17-0, 14 KOs) will be facing #7 IBF Chris Van Heerden (23-1-1, 12 KOs) in a scheduled 10 round fight next Friday on September 11th on Premier Boxing Champions on Spike TV on undercard of the Adonis Stevenson vs. Tommy Karpency fight card from the Ricoh Coliseum, Toronto, Canada.
This is a fight where the 25-year-old Spence needs an impressive victory so that he get moved up higher in the WBA’s rankings. Spence wants a shot at WBA “regular” welterweight champion Keith “One Time” Thurman, but without a high enough ranking to force a fight against him, it enables Thurman to keep fighting soft touches like Luis Collazo, Leonard Bundu and Robert Guerrero rather than a dangerous guy like Spence.
By Dan Ambrose: Unbeaten #8 WBA welterweight contender Errol Spence Jr. (17-0, 14 KOs) has a big chance to prove what he can do in his fight next month against #8 IBF Chris Van Heerden (23-1-1, 12 KOs) on September 11th on the Adonis Stevenson vs. Tommy Karpency card on Premier Boxing Champions from the Ricoh Coliseum, in Toronto, Ontario.
Spence, 25, was hoping to get a world title shot against WBC “regular” welterweight champion Keith “One Time” Thurman, but he didn’t have any interest in facing Spence despite the fact that Spence had Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe asking Thurman in his behalf.
By Dan Ambrose: Floyd Mayweather Jr. had no luck in getting WBA welterweight champion Keith “One Time” Thurman to agree to fight unbeaten 2012 U.S. Olympian Errol Spence (17-0, 14 KOs) on September 12th, so instead of Spence facing Thurman, he’ll be taking on #8 IBF contender Chris Van Heerden (23-1-1, 12 KOs) in a scheduled 10 round bout on September 11th on the undercard of the title fight between WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson and Tommy Karpency at the Ricoh Coliseum in Toronto.
The Spence-Van Heerden fight will be televised on Premier Boxing Champions on Spike TV. This will enable the 25-year-old Spence to get some badly needed publicity.
TORONTO (August 7, 2015) — Groupe Yvon Michel (GYM), in association with Global Legacy Boxing (GLB) and Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE), officially announced today that 2012 U.S. Olympian Errol “The Truth” Spence will take on South African welterweight Chris “The Heat” Van Heerden in the 10-round televised co-feature, airing September 11 live on Spike TV in the United States, as well as Indigo and Bell TV in Canada, from Ricoh Coliseum in Toronto.
By Scott Gilfoid: Amir Khan is saying that he’s hearing that IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook (35-0, 24 KOs) will be facing 40-year-old Leonard Bundu (32-1-2, 11 KOs) or Chris Van Heerden (23-1, 12 KOs) next rather than a top contender. Needless to say, Khan isn’t impressed at all with the possibility of brook facing one of these guys because he feels that Brook should be fighting the top names right now like Marcos Maidana and Tim Bradley rather than going for obscure bottom dwellers opponents. At some point, Brook will run out of voluntary defenses and be force to fight a live body.
Van Heerden is a fringe bottom contender not known for having much power. Brook’s promoter Eddie Hearn hasn’t had much luck in trying to put a fight together between Brook and former IBF lightweight champion Brandon Rios for September.
By Scott Gilfoid: This Saturday night, Matthew Hatton (43-6-2, 17 KO’s) will be challenging IBO welterweight champion Chris van Heerden (18-1-1, 10 KO’s) at the Sandton Convention Center, in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.
Both of these guys are what you would call classic fringe level welterweights. Van Heerden, 25, is the younger guy with a better resume compared to the 31-year-old Hatton. Van Heerden, #11 IBF, will have the home advantage in this fight, as well as the advantage in speed, power and overall talent.
Hatton, #14 IBF, will have to fight a lot better than he did last year against Kell Brook. Hatton was easily beaten by a lopsided 12 round unanimous decision, and was never competitive even for an instant. Hatton came back from that loss to beat an over-matched Michael Lomax by a 1st round knockout last October.