The undercard for Devin Haney’s October fifteenth rematch with George Kambosos Jr is beginning to come collectively, as High Rank introduced yesterday night that Jason and Andrew Moloney are set for significant matchups on the ESPN+ undercard.
Jason (24-2, 19 KO), who’s picked up stable wins over Joshua Greer Jr and Aston Palicte since falling to Naoya Inoue in his second world title bid, faces Nawaphon Kaikanha (56-6-1, 46 KO) in a WBC last eliminator. Kaikanha’s document is, nicely, extraordinarily Thai; outdoors of knockout wins over pale countrymen Amnat Ruenroeng and Sonny Boy Jaro, his largest struggle so far was a three-round knockout loss to Juan Hernandez Navarrete in 2017.
The winner would ordinarily get a crack at Inoue, however since “The Monster’s” nearly assured to vacate and transfer to 122 if he beats Paul Butler, odds are that stated winner will struggle for the vacant belt, doubtlessly towards Naoya’s brother Takuma since he sits proper behind them within the rankings.
“This struggle is one last steps in direction of me attaining my dream and changing into world champion,” Jason Moloney stated. “Nawaphon Kaikanha is a really skilled and succesful opponent who has had 58 skilled fights and just one defeat. To have this struggle in Melbourne, at Rod Laver Enviornment, in entrance of all my household and buddies, is wonderful and provides me much more motivation. Thanks to my supervisor, Tony Tolj, High Rank, and everybody concerned for making this struggle occur. I’ll seize this chance with each arms and earn my shot at changing into the WBC world champion.”
Since his 0-2 (1 NC) trilogy with Andrew Franco, Andrew (24-2, 16 KO) has been making noise about difficult Kazuto Ioka for the WBO belt, and a win over Jimenez (31-9-6, 16 KO) would go a great distance in direction of making that occur. “Meneito” is 29-1-5 since a disastrous professional begin and isn’t far faraway from a massively controversial draw towards Donnie Nietes by which Jimenez was taking up down the stretch earlier than being instructed, apparently in contradiction to earlier phrase, that they have been combating for 10 rounds as an alternative of 12.
“I’m hoping that a formidable win over Jimenez earns me a shot at one of many world champions subsequent,” Andrew Moloney stated. “That is precisely the kind of struggle I’ve been wanting, to point out the enhancements I’ve made and that I’m able to turn into world champion once more. I’m coming to placed on one of the best efficiency of my profession.”
Olympic bronze medalist David Nyika (4-0, 3 KO), Hemi Ahio (19-0, 14 KO), and Amari Jones can be in motion as nicely.
