Eddie Hearn has confirmed to ESPN that a big Super Bowl weekend card in Miami is being planned for either January 30 or 31. The plan is to have IBF junior lightweight titlist, Tevin Farmer, face Joseph Diaz, then a 115 pound unification bout between Kal Yafai and Juan Francisco Estrada and WBA/IBF 122 pound champion, Danny Roman, take on Murodjon Akhmadaliev. This event would take place in a popup arena. "It's being built now,'' said Hearn.

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Alex Camponovo of Thompson Boxing tells ESPN that WBA/IBF 122 pound champion, Danny Roman, will defend his title next versus his WBA mandatory challenger, Murodjon Akhmadaliev, despite recently being elevated to 'super' champion status by the organization. "The mandatory fight was ordered prior to him being moved up as a 'super champion' by the WBA," explained Camponovo, who says this match-up could take place January 31 in Miami, Florida.

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Flyweight world titlist Kosei Tanaka (14-0, 8 KOs), 24, of Japan, will make his third defense against Wulan Tuolehazi (13-3-1, 6 KOs), 26, of China, on New Years Eve at the Ota City General Gymnasium in Tokyo, it was announced at a news conference on Tuesday. The bout will be on the same card on which Japan’s Kazuto Ioka will defend his junior bantamweight belt against Puerto Rico’s Jeyvier Cintron. If Ioka and Tanaka both win it could lead an eventual showdown between the two.

Dan Rafael, ESPN Senior Writer2d ago

Plans are in the works for junior middleweight world titlist Jaime Munguia to return to action Jan. 11 (DAZN) at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Golden Boy Promotions told ESPN on Monday. The likely opponent is Ireland's Gary "Spike" O'Sullivan, who has won two low-level fights since a first-round knockout loss to David Lemieux on the Canelo-Alvarez-Gennadiy Golovkin II card in September 2018. Golden Boy said whomever Mexico's Munguia fights it has not been determined if he will defend his 154-pound title or move up to the 160-pound middleweight division.

Dan Rafael, ESPN Senior Writer3d ago

Former super middleweight titlist Jose Uzcategui will face an opponent to be determined in a 10-round bout on the undercard of the Premier Boxing Champions card headlined by the junior middleweight title rematch between Tony Harrison and Jermell Charlo on Dec. 21 at Toyota Arena in Ontario, California, Sean Gibbons, Uzcategui’s adviser, told ESPN. Uzcategui lost his 168-pound by decision to Caleb Plant in January and has won his only fight since by first-round KO of Roberto Valdez in September.

Dan Rafael, ESPN Senior Writer3d ago