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Pick it: Tyson Fury vs. Arslanbek Makhmudov
When to Watch: Saturday, April 11 at 2 p.m. Eastern Time (7 p.m. BST)
How to watch: Netflix
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Thursday, April 9: Osleys Iglesias vs. Pavel Silyagin (DAZN and PunchingGrace)
The broadcast begins at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time (11:30 p.m. BST).
This fight for the vacant IBF super middleweight title will take place at the Casino de Montreal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Iglesias, 14-0 (13 KOs), is a 28-year-old from Cuba who turned pro in Germany and has since made Montreal his fighting home, akin to many other talented foreign-born fighters who have been embraced by boxing fans in the region. His past five bouts have come in the Canadian province, four of them in Montreal and one in Quebec City.
During that run, Iglesias has knocked out the 32-6-1 Marcelo Coceres in one round; did the same thing to the 16-1-1 Evgeny Shvedenko; dispatched the 28-3 Sena Agbeko in the second round; put away the 18-0-2 Petro Ivanov in the fifth round; and stopped the 16-1 Vladimir Shishkin in the eighth.
The Shishkin win was in early September in an elimination match for the IBF title at 168lbs. Nine days later, Terence Crawford defeated Saul “Canelo” Alvarez to become the undisputed super middleweight champion. Crawford ultimately retired and vacated all four of the major sanctioning body belts.
Silyagin, 16-0-1 (7 KOs), is rated seventh by the IBF and agreed to fight after several others declined. The 32-year-old from Russia has won three in a row since his 2023 draw with eventual Iglesias victim Shvedenko. Silyagin fought just once in 2025, nearly shutting out the 23-0 Pablo Exequiel Corzo in July.
The co-feature pits junior welterweight prospect Arthur Biyarslanov, 20-0 (16 KOs), against Jimerr Espinosa, 17-2-1 (16 KOs). Biyarslanov is a 30-year-old who represented Canada in the 2016 Olympics, losing in his second match of the junior welterweight tournament. He is coming off a unanimous decision over former titleholder Sergey Lipinets last October. Espinosa, a 28-year-old from Mexico, has gone 2-0-1 since a split decision loss to prospect Delante “Tiger” Johnson in late 2023. Most recently, Espinosa stopped the 18-5 Adrian Villanueva in five rounds last May.
Other undercard bouts include lightweight prospect Luis Santana, 15-0 (7 KOs), against Chann Thonson, 18-1 (15 KOs); and Leila Beaudoin, 13-2 (2…
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