Tremendous middleweight contender Christian Mbilli had simply in regards to the best evening conceivable in Shawinigan this night, smashing Britain’s Mark Heffron with a physique shot simply 40 seconds into the primary spherical.
Heffron (30-4-1, 24 KO) got here out throwing left hooks, however the struggle appeared to depart him the second Mbilli (27-0, 23 KO) touched his physique. “Solide” landed some heavy swings alongside the ropes earlier than sneaking in a thudding liver shot that put Heffron down for the rely.
Subsequent up for the unscathed Mbilli, who sits in all 4 sanctioning our bodies’ prime threes however will nearly assuredly by no means get a crack at Canelo, is an August seventeenth showdown with Sergiy Derevyanchenko in Quebec. He’ll once more be a heavy favourite in opposition to the ageing, undersized vet, however Derevyanchenko has some brass ones and is extraordinarily laborious to eliminate, so that would flip into a top quality scrap.
The night’s different struggle of observe noticed Arslanbek Makhmudov (19-1, 18 KO) return to the win column by clubbing Miljan Rovcanin (27-4, 18 KO) into submission, sending Rovcanin by way of the ropes within the first earlier than taking him out with a chopping proper late within the second. Rovcanin wasn’t any type of check and advised us little or no about whether or not Makhmudov has grown from final December’s beatdown by the hands of Agit Kabayel, however because the announcers stated on the published, there’s a good probability this will get him one other stint on a Saudi present.
