Australia's George Kambosos Jr. says he has been training "like a man possessed" ahead of his crucial IBF lightweight eliminator with Lee Selby on the Usyk-Chisora undercard on Saturday October 31st, shown live on Sky Sports Box Office in the UK and DAZN in the US. A win for tKambosos (18-0, 10 KOs) would see him become IBF mandatory for newly-crowned world lightweight champion Teofimo Lopez, who brilliantly overcame Vasiliy Lomachenko by a unanimous points decision in Las Vegas on Saturday.
Hailing from Sydney, 27-year-old Kambosos Jr announced himself in the 135-pound division by defeating former IBF titlist Mickey Bey on away territory at Madison Square Garden in New York last time out. "Ferocious" will be aiming to make it two wins in two against former champs when he meets Wales’ former long-reigning IBF featherweight ruler Selby next weekend on an evening of Halloween fight action.
“Beating Lee Selby means everything to me,” said Kambosos. “I’m hungry, focused and have trained like a man possessed to handle business on October 31st. This is a young man’s sport and Lopez proved that against Lomachenko when he became the lightweight world champion and I will prove it once again against Lee Selby. This hungry young lion will become mandatory, that is my complete focus, this is why I have sacrificed so much and then you best believe that ‘Ferocious Kambosos’ will be primed and ready to take all the belts off another hungry, young lion in Teofimo Lopez. Let’s see who the real king of the jungle is.”
Selby vs. Kambosos Jr is part of a huge night of boxing as pound-for-pound star Oleksandr Usyk (17-0, 13 KOs) faces his first real heavyweight test in Derek Chisora (32-9, 23 KOs)... heavyweight fan favorite Dave Allen (18-5-2, 15 KOs) collides with Christian Hammer (25-6 15 KOs)... Belfast’s Tommy McCarthy (16-2, 8 KOs) meets Belgium’s Bilal Laggoune (25-1-2, 14 KOs) for the vacant European cruiserweight title and Amy Timlin (4-0) faces off with Carly Skelly (3-0) for the vacant Commonwealth 122-pound title.
