Tremendous middleweight contender Christian Mbilli had simply in regards to the best night time conceivable in Shawinigan this night, smashing Britain’s Mark Heffron with a physique shot simply 40 seconds into the primary spherical.
Heffron (30-4-1, 24 KO) got here out throwing left hooks, however the combat appeared to go away him the second Mbilli (27-0, 23 KO) touched his physique. “Solide” landed some heavy swings alongside the ropes earlier than sneaking in a thudding liver shot that put Heffron down for the count.
Subsequent up for the unscathed Mbilli, who sits in all 4 sanctioning our bodies’ prime threes however will virtually assuredly by no means get a crack at Canelo, is an August 17th showdown with Sergiy Derevyanchenko in Quebec. He’ll once more be a heavy favourite in opposition to the getting old, undersized vet, however Derevyanchenko has some brass ones and is extraordinarily onerous to do away with, so that would flip into a top quality scrap.
The night’s different combat of be aware noticed Arslanbek Makhmudov (19-1, 18 KO) return to the win column by clubbing Miljan Rovcanin (27-4, 18 KO) into submission, sending Rovcanin through the ropes in the first before taking him out with a chopping right late in the second. Rovcanin wasn’t any kind of take a look at and informed us little or no about whether or not Makhmudov has grown from final December’s beatdown by the hands of Agit Kabayel, however because the announcers mentioned on the printed, there’s an honest probability this will get him one other stint on a Saudi present.
