Monday the 19th
🏴⚽ Premier League
- Everton vs. Crystal Palace
⚽🇪🇸 La Liga
- Athletic Bilbao vs. Girona
Tuesday the 20th
🏴⚽ Premier League
- Manchester City-Brentford
⚽ Champions League
First leg of two-legged matches. Round of 16.
- Inter Milan vs. Atlético Madrid
- PSV Eindhoven vs. Borussia Dortmund
🥊 Ardreal Holmes vs Marlon Harrington at super-welterweight
Detroit time zone
https://box.live/fights/holmes-jr-vs-harrington/ On the undercard is Izmailov vs Norwood
Wednesday the 21st
🏴⚽ Premier League
- Liverpool - Luton Town
⚽ Champions League
First leg of two-legged matches. Round of 16.
- FC Porto vs. Arsenal
- Napoli vs. Barcelona
Thursday the 22nd
⚽🇮🇹 Serie A
- Torino vs. Lazio
⚽ Europa League
Second leg of two-legged matches, eight teams go through to the round of 16. I've put the score in the first leg in brackets.
- Qarabag(4)-(2)Sporting Braga
- Rennes(0)-(3)AC Milan
- SC Freiburg(0)-(0)Lens
- Toulouse(1)-(2)Benfica
- Marseille(2)-(2)Shakhtar Donetsk
- Roma(1)-Feyenoord(1) [clearly the most interesting]
- Sparta Prague(2)-Galatasaray(3)
- Sporting Lisbon(3)-Young Boys(1)
Friday the 23rd
⚽🇪🇸 La Liga
- Real Sociedad vs. Villarreal
⚽🇩🇪 Bundesliga
- Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Mainz 05
ONE Friday Nights 53
Thailand time zone.
Saturday the 24th
🏴⚽ Premier League
- Aston Villa - Nottingham Forest
- Brighton & Hove Albion - Everton
- Crystal Palace - Burnley
- Manchester United - Fulham
- AFC Bournemouth vs. Manchester City
- Arsenal vs. Newcastle United
⚽🇪🇸 La Liga
- Granada vs. Valencia
- Barcelona vs. Getafe
- Alavés vs. Mallorca
- Almería vs. Atlético Madrid
⚽🇩🇪 Bundesliga
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- FC Union Berlin vs. 1. FC Heidenheim 1846
- Borussia Mönchengladbach vs. VfL Bochum 1848
- Werder Bremen vs. Darmstadt 98
- VfB Stuttgart vs. 1. FC Köln
- Bayern Munich vs. RB Leipzig
⚽🇮🇹 Serie A
- Sassuolo vs. Empoli
- Salernitana vs. Monza
- Genoa vs. Udinese
🥊 Alexandro Santiago vs Junto Nakatani for the WBC Bantamweight belt
Japan time zone
Bookies' odds imply about 83% chance of Nakatani winning. https://box.live/fights/santiago-vs-nakatani/
Good card too. Here are the wikipedia links and bookies' probabilities where available:
- WBA bantamweight title – Takuma Inoue (72%) vs Jerwin Ancajas (28%) (not to be confused with Naoya Inoue)
- Kosei Tanaka (85%) vs Christian Bacasegua (15%)
- Sultan vs Masuda
🥊 Mikhalkin vs Salamov
Moscow time zone https://box.live/fights/mikhalkin-vs-salamov/
🥊 Edgar Berlanga vs Pádraig McCrory at super-middleweight
Florida time zone
This is the most interesting fight of the week. Bookies odds imply about a 78% chance of Berlanga winning. Berlanga is a monster, known for winning his first 16 fights in the 1st round, though having said that his 5 fights since then have all gone the distance, making him 21-0 now. McCrory is also undefeated after 18, and I think he could pull off the upset. The winner could face Canelo Alvarez. Berlanga wikipedia. McCrory wikipedia. https://box.live/fights/berlanga-vs-mccrory/
Undercard with wikipedia links and bookies' probabilities where available:
- Shakhram Giyasov 91% vs Pablo César Cano 9%
- Figueroa vs Velasquez
- Andy Cruz (94%) vs Bryan Zamarripa Rodriguez (6%)
- Antonio Vargas (56%) vs Jonathan Rodriguez (44%)
🥊 Connor Butler vs Jay Harris at flyweight
England time zone https://box.live/fights/butler-vs-harris/
UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Royval 2
Mexico City time zone.
Flyweight Brandon Moreno vs. Brandon Royval
Featherweight Yair Rodríguez vs. Brian Ortega
Lightweight Daniel Zellhuber vs. Francisco Prado
Bantamweight Raul Rosas Jr. vs. Ricky Turcios
👩Strawweight Yazmin Jauregui vs. Sam Hughes
Lightweight Manuel Torres vs. Chris Duncan
Bantamweight Cristian Quiñonez vs. Raoni Barcelos
Flyweight Jesús Santos Aguilar vs. Mateus Mendonça
Flyweight Edgar Chairez vs. Daniel Lacerda
Lightweight Claudio Puelles vs. Farès Ziam
Flyweight Luis Rodriguez vs. Denys Bondar
Flyweight Victor Altamirano vs. Felipe dos Santos
Featherweight Erik Silva vs. Muhammad Naimov
Bellator vs. Professional Fighters League crossover
Riyadh time zone.
Heavyweight Renan Ferreira vs. Ryan Bader [Bellator champ vs. Professional Fighters League champ]
Middleweight Impa Kasanganay vs. Johnny Eblen [Bellator champ vs. Professional Fighters League champ]
Catchweight (182lb) Ray Cooper III vs. Jason Jackson
Heavyweight Bruno Cappelozza vs. Vadim Nemkov
Light Heavyweight Thiago Santos vs. Yoel Romero
Lightweight Clay Collard vs. A.J. McKee
Featherweight Aaron Pico vs. Gabriel Alves Braga
Lightweight Biaggio Ali Walsh vs. Emmanuel Palacio
👩Super Lightweight Claressa Shields vs. Kelsey DeSantis
Featherweight Abdullah Al-Qahtani vs. Edukondala Rao
Flyweight Malik Basahel vs. Vinicius Pereira
Sunday the 25th
🏴⚽ Premier League
- Wolverhampton Wanderers vs. Sheffield United
⚽🇪🇸 La Liga
- Cádiz vs. Celta Vigo
- Real Betis vs. Athletic Bilbao
- Las Palmas vs. Osasuna
- Real Madrid vs. Sevilla
⚽🇩🇪 Bundesliga
- Eintracht Frankfurt vs. VfL Wolfsburg
- Borussia Dortmund vs. 1899 Hoffenheim
- FC Augsburg vs. SC Freiburg
⚽🇮🇹 Serie A
- Juventus vs. Frosinone
- Cagliari vs. Napoli
- Lecce vs. Inter Milan
- AC Milan vs. Atalanta
🏴⚽ League Cup Final
- Chelsea - Liverpool (it's not an important tournament, but it's a final, and Chelsea's only chance of winning silverware this season)
Berlanga is not a monster. They always start building a potential young star with easy fights against part time boxers (guys who have a 9-5 jobs) or jouneymen. Berlanga had an impressive 1st round KO streak against very weak competition. His first match up against a decent opponent and he struggled. When his contract was up, Top Rank let him go. Berlanga is Puerto Rican, and Puerto Ricans are starving for a boxing star after Trinidad and Cotto. If Berlanga was any decent Top Rank would've kept building him up and match him up with a big Mexican star for a big PPV event. Anyways, he's now signed with Matchroom, and they will probably match him up carefully to build him up and look for that big PPV against a big time Mexican (Munguia or Canelo).
Can McCrory do it? I think he can.