Monday, May 6
ESPN+, 4:00 am ET, Naoya Inoue vs Luis Nery
BLH will have live updates. This is a stacked card, and if you can make the time work, highly recommended you tune in for the full show and not just the main event. In addition to the great Inoue in the main event against his top challenger at 122, we get three more world title fights: Takuma Inoue (WBA 118) vs Sho Ishida, Jason Moloney (WBO 118) vs Yoshiki Takei, and Seigo Yuri Aku (WBA 112) vs Taku Kuwahara, all of them solid matchups. Get your schedule in order! Call in sick! Let’s go!
Saturday, May 11
DAZN, 1:30 pm ET, X Series 014: Salt Papi vs Amadeusz Ferrari
The “Salt Papi’s pretty good, actually!” craze has died off, but he’s still a notable name for the Misfits “Boxing” circuit, so he headlines here.
Peacock, 2:30 pm ET, Jessica McCaskill vs Lauren Price
BLH will have live updates. McCaskill defends the WBA welterweight title against Price, an Olympic gold medalist and emerging top contender who is done “preparing” to step up, she’s just gonna do it in Cardiff. McCaskill has almost no normal “boxing skills,” but being a crafty, annoying, double tough fighter is really a boxing skill itself, and she’s all that. It’s a pretty light undercard, honestly, but we’ll have a post-up and main event coverage.
TNT Sports (UK), 3:00 pm ET, Denzel Bentley vs Danny Dignum
If you’re local in the UK, go ahead and check that time for yourself on your cable listings or whatever, because for me, an arrogant American, it is simply Bentley vs Dignum and it’s up to you to make sure of the start time. Probably around 8 local. Seems right. Whatever.
DAZN, 8:00 pm ET, Eduardo “Rocky” Hernandez vs Daniel Lugo
Hernandez is very fun to watch and this fight might bang, but there’s a major fight on head-to-head with the back end of this show, so, you know. No coverage.
ESPN+ and ESPN, 10:00 pm ET, Vasiliy Lomachenko vs George Kambosos Jr
BLH will have live updates. Lomachenko and Kambosos fight for the vacant IBF lightweight title, given up by Devin Haney as part of the package when he went to 140, broken into pieces for someone else to chase the fake glory of “undisputed” if they want. Loma will be the favorite here, but Kambosos does have home field in Perth and Loma is 36. Andrew Moloney faces Pedro Guevara for the interim WBC super flyweight title, too. The card also has a WBA bantamweight title fight between Nina Hughes and Cherneka Johnson, but not sure if that will air on the ESPN broadcast or not. Seems unlikely, honestly.