Barrett and Cameron face hardest checks up to now in Abu Dhabi – British Boxing BBTV

Britain’s Chantelle Cameron (16-0-0, 8KOs) and Zelfa Barrett (28-1-0, 16KOs) face the sternest checks of their careers up to now towards world-class opposition in Abu Dhabi.

Protection of the principle card is about to begin at 5:30pm UK time.

The cardboard will see a number of British expertise competing on the Etihad Enviornment on the undercard of WBA light-heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol (20-0-0, 11KOs) defending his title towards Mexican Gilbero Ramirez (44-0-0, 30KOs).

The bout marks Bivol’s first since defeating Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez in Might.

Unified super-lightweight champion Cameron appears to be like to gather all 4 governing physique belts towards Illinois’ Jessica McCaskill (12-2-0, 5KOs).

The latter is stepping down from welterweight the place she already holds the standing of undisputed champion and appears to change into solely the second fighter to carry that title in two separate weight divisions.

Cameron in the meantime has hardly put a foot fallacious in sixteen outings and victory on Saturday will see the Northampton fighter change into the primary English undisputed champion within the four-belt period.

A mega showdown with pound-for-pound star Katie Taylor may lie on the horizon for the winner on Saturday because the Irish fighter appears to be like to land a long-awaited homecoming bout at Dublin’s Croke Park.

Taylor handed McCaskill the second of her two skilled defeats 5 years in the past and Cameron has lengthy spoken about her want to tackle Taylor in a professional ring.

Manchester super-featherweight Barrett in the meantime enters Saturday night time as underdog towards Tajikistan’s Shavkat Rakhimov (16-0-1, 13KOs) for the IBF title at 130lbs.

Barrett took the battle at six weeks discover after former champion Joe Cordina was stripped of the title after pulling of his first defence towards Rakhimov by way of hand damage.

Rakhimov holds a powerful stoppage victory over former world title challenger over Mazinga Fuzile and likewise held former world champion Joseph Diaz to a majority draw for a similar title final yr.

Barrett in the meantime claimed the European title in his final outing with a dominant victory over Faroukh Kourbanov and a win on Saturday will show some of the spectacular by a British fighter in 2022.

Tokyo 2020 Olympic flyweight gold medalist Galal Yafai (2-0-0, 2KOs) makes his third professional look versus Gohan Rodriguez Garcia (12-1-1, 1KO) at flyweight.

Yafai is but to transcend 5 rounds within the skilled ranks and is scheduled for his third ten-rounder this weekend towards Mexico’s Garcia.

Galal’s brother Kal Yafai (26-1-0, 15KOs) returns to the ring for the primary time since his sole professional defeat to Roman ‘Chocolatito’ Gonzalez in 2020.

Transferring up from super-flyweight to bantamweight, Yafai takes on the Philippines’ Jerald Paclar (16-5-3, 9KOs) over ten rounds as he begins the journey to changing into a two-division champion.

Campbell Hatton (8-0-0, 2KOs) returns at light-weight in a six-round contest towards Denis Bartos (9-5-0, 6KOs).

Hatton has gained each spherical in his final two outings, with the earlier two earlier than that coming by way of stoppage.

Tremendous-featherweight prospect Aqib Fiaz (9-0-0) returns in a six-round contest versus Diego Valtierra (6-5-2, 2KOs).