Thursday, April 23rd
Stan.Sport (AUS) UFC Fight Pass? (USA), 1:00 am ET, Jason Moloney vs Andre Donovan. From Fortitude Valley, just outside of Brisbane, Australia. Confirmed on Stan.Sport for our Australian friends… BoxRec thinks this is on UFC Fight Pass in America, but it doesn’t list there currently. Moloney snapped a two fight losing streak with a win over Herlan Gomez back in December. Donovan is from Ohio, fighting for the first time in a year and the first time at 10 rounds or longer. Moloney is a former bantamweight
world champion, and Donovan is a former CountryBox: Where Music Meets Boxing guy. Odds are way closer than I assumed given those seemingly pertinent biographical details.
Friday, April 24th
TrillerTV+, 9:00 pm ET, Night of Champions XI. From Long Beach, California. 12 total fights listed on BoxRec, with two ten-rounders at the top of the card.
Saturday, April 25th
DAZN, 1:00 pm ET, Jacob Bank vs Paulinus Ndjolonimu. From Kolding, Denmark. Bank has had a fantastic 2026 so far. He knocked out William Scull (Is he officially better than Canelo? Sound off in the comments!), got married, had a kid, and now he’s taking on Namibian Paulinus Ndjolonimu. Ndjolonimu has a great KO rate and just one loss, but it came in his only departure from Namibia, and the KOs came against what could be the equivalent of southwest African club fighters, for all I know of them. Bank is the show, with one eight-rounder and a handful of six-rounders in support. One of them includes a guy named Thorbjorn Boudigaard!
DAZN, 2:00 pm ET, Lawrence Okolie vs Tony Yoka. From Paris, France. GET FIRED UP!! When Scott asked me if I would cover the mega event he’s taken to calling YOKOLIE, I obviously told him #YOLOkolie, and agreed immediately. It’s a 2016 Olympics locker room grudge match! Yoka won gold at super heavyweight. Okolie was knocked out in the round of 16 in the regular heavyweight division. But, maybe one of them hogged the showers or shot a dirty look at the other between sessions? Who knows? Could be personal, somehow! And now they’ll settle it, after 10 years and a lot of mutually evaporated hype! Four years ago, I compared Okolie to a pancake breakfast. His subsequent cruiserweight loss to CBS and two years of general puttering around as a heavyweight haven’t made me any more excited for his fights. Yoka was once at least in the discussion for rising fighters with future heavyweight championship potential. And then, he lost three straight fights to Martin Bakole, Carlos Takam, and Ryad Merhy. We were all confused when Queensberry signed him last summer, with Stumberg speculating he was inked as live feed for Joe Joyce. Instead, it’s Okolie. On paper, it’s a godawful matchup between a guy notorious for limited engagement and holding, and another openly condemned by broadcasters for a cracked chin and refusal to attack. But, I’m sorta looking forward to it? Don’t ask me to explain, beyond both of these guys needing this fight badly if they want to be or do anything else of note with their careers. As for the undercard? I’ll watch so you don’t have to. BLH will have live updates
TrillerTV PPV, 7:30 pm ET, XRUMBLE Fighting Championships. From Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The proud lineage of Philly boxers goes from Joe Frazier to Rocky Balboa to Bernard Hopkins, and now to Floyd Mayweather…’s sister, Fatimah. She and pro wrestler Zenith Zion headline this $29.99 PPV event.
DAZN, 8:00 pm ET, Jarrell Miller vs Lenier Pero. From Las Vegas, Nevada. Miller returns, presumably with sturdier scalp glue, fresh off his first win in almost three years. He’ll try to make it a streak against Pero, the elder of the heavyweight Pero brothers (don’t confuse him with Dainier) who finally takes a step up in opposition at the age of 33. Nothing down the card demands your attention, though the chief support between Angel Barrientes and Isaac Rojas looks well-matched and could be a fun one. BLH will have live updates
