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Jared Anderson is demoted to tonight’s preliminary card 10-round rebuilding struggle towards little-known heavyweight Marios Kollias at Madison Sq. Backyard Theater in New York Metropolis.
Anderson is preventing on the undercard of Denys Berinchyk vs. Keyshawn Davis. The occasion might be proven stay on ESPN and ESPN+ beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT. It’s unclear the place Kollias was discovered for this struggle. That is worse than I believed. It reveals Jared’s dire scenario for him following his blowout loss to Martin Bakole.
That is like re-starting Anderson’s profession from the start, giving him a coloring ebook and a few crayons to start out scribbling.
Was He Ever Any Good?
High Rank had been constructing the 25-year-old Anderson (17-1, 15 KOs) because the substitute for growing older ex-heavyweight champion Tyson Fury to be their subsequent star, however he was discovered by Martin Bakole in a devasting fifth-round knockout on August third final summer season on Turki Al-Sheikh’s card in Los Angeles.
Anderson was dropped within the first and twice extra within the fifth spherical earlier than the referee waved it off. What shocked me was how Jared made it that far.
If promoter Bob Arum had his eyes open, he may have noticed issues with the Ohio native Jared Anderson lengthy earlier than he was blasted to the following galaxy by Bakole. Anderson had been staggered in fights towards Jerry Forrest, Charles Martin, and Ryad Merhy.
That ought to have let Arum and High Rank know they had been pouring cash right into a dropping trigger with Anderson. With a fighter like that, you may’t protect them from laborious with cautious matchmaking as a result of they’ll get uncovered in the end.
Fury made a goldmine being protected with cautious matchmaking throughout his profession, taking one win over a shot Klitschko and transmuting it to a gold mine. Anderson can’t comply with that very same path as a result of he’s getting batted across the ring by even journeymen.
For those who’re High Rank, it could be clever to drag the plug on Anderson if he regarded hellishly unhealthy tonight towards the 33-year-old Kollias. It’s higher for the promotional firm to chop their losses asap if Jared struggles tonight. He’s NOT going to be one other Fury, taking one huge win over an over-the-hill Wlad and making enormous dough from that one victory.
Anderson has been conserving a low profile since his loss to Bakole, a traditional instance of the disgrace response to his failure towards Bakole. Jared appears like he’s placed on some kilos, showing thick round his midsection. He’s clearly been consuming good since his loss. I simply hope he doesn’t stay to remorse not coming in a bit slimmer for tonight’s struggle.
