George Cambos Jr. is a new weight class and a new co-promoter.
Boxing News It has been revealed that Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom Boxing has partnered with Combos’ longtime promoter DeBella Entertainment to represent the former Unified Lightweight Champion. Australia’s Kambos is also expected to move up to the super-lightweight division for his next fight, which will take place in February at an unspecified Australian site to be chosen in Brisbane or the Gold Coast.
Montreal’s Mathieu Germain, 25-2-1 (10 KOs), is the frontrunner to box on DAZN’s next main event card. Kambos, 21-3 (10 KOs), last fought on May 12, when he was stopped in 11 by three-division champion Vasily Lomachenko, 18-3 (12 KOs).Th Their fight for the then-vacant IBF lightweight title at the RAC Arena in Perth, Australia.
Combos, 31, is 1-3 in his last four fights, including back-to-back points losses to former undisputed lightweight champion Devin Haynie in 2022.
Sydney’s Kambos is nevertheless the market boxer in Australia. So Hearn could help set up an All-Australian showdown between Kambos and Liam Paro if Brisbane’s Paro, 25-0 (15 KOs), takes on mandatory challenger Richardson Hutchins, 18-0 (7 KOs) in December. Successfully defended his IBF super lightweight title. 7 at the Roberto Clemente Coliseum in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Combos won their next match.
In addition to co-promoting Kambosos, Matchroom represents Paro and Hitchens of New York, who are the mandatory challengers for Paro’s championship.
Although the date and site had not been confirmed as of Thursday morning, Boxing News It has also been confirmed that the card Kambosos is set to headline in February will include two women’s world championship matches. In one of those bouts, Australian southpaw Skye Nicholson, 12-0 (1 KO), will make a mandatory defense of her WBC featherweight title against American Tiara Brown, 17-0 (11 KOs) of Lehigh Acres, Florida.
England’s Nina Hughes, 6-1 (2 KOs), will also look to avenge her controversial 10-round, majority decision loss to Australia’s Chernika Johnson, 16-2 (6 KOs), on the same night the Nicholson-Brown fight. It happened. . Johnson won the WBA bantamweight title from Hughes on the Lomachenko-Kambossos undercard.
