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“It’s Over for the Heavyweight Division”: Jared Anderson Training With Terence Crawford Gets Fans All Hyped Up for Martin Bakole Fight

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ESPN Ringside has shared a few snapshots of Jared Anderson and Terence Crawford. It shows the former undisputed welterweight champion watching with rapt attention while the young heavyweight contender trains. Since the time they came, the photos have been gaining considerable traction among fans.

On August 3, Terence Crawford will kick off his campaign in the 154-pound weight class. He will face WBA light middleweight champion Israil Madrimov. The event, conducted under Riyadh Season’s auspices, features quite a few exciting cards. It seems there are two non-title fights, both in the heavyweight division. Aside from the bout between Andy Ruiz Jr. and Jarrell Miller, upcoming contender Jared Anderson squares up against Martin Bakole.

Terence Crawford and Jared Anderson, Understanding Sweet Science Together

The tweet read, “Bud and Big Baby in the lab.” 24-year-old Anderson defended his regional title against Ryad Merhy on August 13 last year. In Bakole, he faces a formidable opponent with a justified pedigree. The Congolese boxer stands as the as the number one ranked boxer on the WBA’s heavyweight list. Clearly, ‘The Real Big Baby’ doesn’t want to leave any stone unturned.

Understandably, the Toledo-born boxer may perhaps want to retain his unbeaten streak. Additionally, a win over another ranking heavyweight promises a better standing in the hierarchy. There were talks of fighting against Deontay Wilder. But as it appears, the showdown may now have a negligible chance of happening, given how ‘The Bronze Bomber’ suffered his fourth defeat at the hands of Zhilei Zhang.

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American Knockout Artist To Face ‘Most Avoided Heavyweight’ On Terence Crawford Card

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Heavyweights Martin Bakole and Jared Anderson are the latest additions to Riyadh Season’s first card on US shores – headlined by Terence Crawford – after Tim Tszyu versus Vergil Ortiz Jr was cancelled.

Turki Alalshikh promised a big replacement and, in terms of power, he has delivered. Tszyu’s cut from the Sebastian Fundora fight turned out too bad to fight again so soon, meaning fans miss out on what was an excellent piece of matchmaking, at least for now.

To keep the hype high, the promotion has decided to step undefeated Anderson up against Bakole – the Congolese heavyweight fighting out of Scotland that his promoter and trainer claim is the most avoided in the division.

Bakole is coming off an impressive stoppage of heavyweight stalwart Carlos Takam in Saudi Arabia, and recently missed out on a fight with Joe Joyce. His record is lacking big names, something he believes is due to the beatings he puts on fighters in the gym being enough to convince them against a pro bout.

Anderson has been consistent in saying he wants to take on all comers. The 24-year-old has stopped fifteen in seventeen wins, but did show some vulnerabilities when he stepped up against former world champion Charles Martin.

Terence Crawford tops the bill in his debut at 154lbs challenging for Israil Madrimov’s WBA title and the vacant WBO. The card also features Isaac Cruz vs Jose Valenzuela for Cruz’s WBA super lightweight title, an intriguing heavyweight bout between Andy Ruiz and Jarrell Miller, David Morrell against Radivoje Kalajdzic and Cuban sensation Andy Cruz vs Antonio Moran.

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Daily Bread Mailbag: Crawford-Ennis, Canelo-Benavidez, Jared Anderson, Richardson Hitchins, Zurdo At Heavyweight, Tim Witherspoon, And Boots Signing With Matchroom

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The Daily Bread Mailbag returns with Stephen “Breadman” Edwards giving his thoughts on various topics such as the future of Boots Ennis, Ennis joining Matchroom and a possible Crawford fight, giving Tim Witherspoon his props, Hitchins-Lemos and the Canelo-Benavidez quandary.

I’ve been a boxing fan and writer since 1975 and started my Boston-based combat sports PR agency, Full Court PRESS 25 years ago. One of the dozen or so world champs I’ve worked for is Zurdo Ramirez.

I read your answer to a question about Zurdo in today’s BoxingScene mailbag with great interest. I greatly respect your boxing knowledge and was thrilled to read that you believe Zurdo can be a world heavyweight champion.

I am contacting you in regard to what you wrote about Malik Scott.

He is not Zurdo’s head trainer but is a valued assistant who works out of Brickhouse Boxing Club in North Hollywood. I started doing work with Zurdo after he was released by Top Rank about the same time that Julian [Chua] became his head trainer.

I’ve watched his work and I believe he’s one of the hottest young trainers in boxing.

In addition to Zurdo, Julian is also the head trainer for Scrappy Ramirez, the undefeated super flyweight who will be fighting on this month’s Haney-Garcia bill.

I just wanted you to know that Julian is Zurdo’s head trainer not Malik, who works the corners for Zurdo and Scrappy.

Thanks for your time and consideration.

Bob Trieger

Bread’s Response: I apologize to Julian. Attribution in this sport is very important and it was NOT my intent to slight him. I don’t pay much attention to the digital world of boxing but in the times that I rarely do, I saw Malik Scott working with Zurdo, so I WRONGLY assumed he was the head trainer. Again, my apologies, I definitely wouldn’t want anyone to slight me, so therefore I would never purposely slight another fellow trainer.

Zurdo looks good at cruiserweight and under the right conditions he can get a title at heavyweight or at least fight for the belt which is always an honor.

Hi

Just following on from your Holmes/Holyfield mail from last week. Witherspoon was my favourite heavyweight growing up as a teenager, for some reason I took to him when he was about to fight Holmes and along with Hagler he was the fighter I cared most about.

I think what people fail to remember about the Holmes fight is he had very few fights, was coming of a long break due to an injury and had less than twenty fights in total as an amateur. His talent level was unreal but his motivation was slowly sucked out of him due to all of the nonsense with King. In a parallel universe he’s an ATG. Even with his under-performing career, he had some very impressive wins. Keep up the great work with the mailbag and your training. Regards, Dave

Bread’s Response: Tim Witherspoon is as close to being a GREAT fighter as one can be without being recognized as one. He was tremendous. He had a good chin, big punch, smooth defense, IQ and a big heart. As you stated the politics of boxing and Don King were the cause of him not being at a higher level historically. What a shame. 

For context this is how good Witherspoon is. I thought he beat Larry Holmes when he was only 15-0. I thought Witherspoon and Mike Tyson would be a 50/50 fight, best day for best day in the mid 80s. And Witherspoon would have had a very good chance to beat the smaller and older Michael Spinks in my opinion who beat Holmes in 1985. I bring them up because they all competed and won belts in the SAME era. All are HOFs. And Witherspoon would have had a great chance to beat them ALL. Again, I thought he beat the great Larry Holmes. Watch that fight round for found and tell me Tim didn’t win 8 or 9 rounds out of the 15. 

In his last fight, Ryad Merhy beat Tony Yoka. He wasn’t supposed to beat Yoka. He did as well against Yoka as Carlos Takam and Martin Bakole did. Takam is a former world title challenger and Bakole is currently the WBA’s No. 1 ranked contender. I know the transitive property doesn’t apply to boxing but I have to ask: does Merhy have a shot to beat Jared Anderson? Anderson has had recent legal trouble and seems very distracted by it.

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Heavyweight Knockout Artist Jared Anderson Predicts Deontay Wilder-Anthony Joshua

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Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder

Much-hyped heavyweight contender Jared Anderson has predicted who would come out on top should Anthony Joshua ever fight Deontay Wilder.

Anderson will be hoping that his own name will one day be in the frame to fight either of these two big-hitting former world champions. With 16 wins from 16 and steady steps up, not many in the sport are doubting that he can get there.

He counts Tyson Fury as a fan, too. The Brit, having sparred Anderson, has branded him the ‘future ruler’ of the heavyweight division.

Earlier in the year the American faced his toughest test in the ring when he came up against former champion Charles Martin.

Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder

The 10-round fight saw him lose his 100% knockout rate but also proved he could deal with some genuine pressure and still stay strong late on. He backed up that rare points win with a knockout of Andrii Rudenko in August.

In a video shared by FightHype, Anderson picked a winner between Joshua and Wilder when asked on his own social media who would come out on top by fans.

Joshua and Wilder are not currently scheduled to fight each other but will appear on the same card on December 23.

Should Joshua beat Otto Wallin and Wilder come through Joseph Parker, many are hoping the two will finally face each other some point in early 2024.

Promoter Eddie Hearn tells Boxing Social that that is indeed the plan, putting an end to an almost decade long transatlantic rivalry that’s still yet to make it inside the ropes.

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