Showtime is back with Saturday evening boxing, this time coming to us live from Australia. Native son Tim Tszyu will top a card in Queensland as he puts his WBO interim junior middleweight title on the line against Carlos Ocampo. The card starts at 11:30 p.m. ET, which means we’ll be into early Sunday for the main event.
Tszyu is hoping to eventually secure a bout with undisputed junior middleweight champ Jermell Charlo, but that remains on the back-burner for now. Ocampo is the 11th-ranked WBO contender and is coming off a unanimous decision loss to WBC interim champ Sebastian Fundora. If Tszyu wins on Saturday, maybe we see a Tszyu-Fundora eliminator bout to determine a challenger to Charlo?
Tszyu is a heavy favorite in this bout at DraftKings Sportsbook. He’s installed at -1400 to win while Ocampo is +750. The favored outcome is a Tszyu stoppage at -250. Ocampo’s best outcome is a stoppage at +1200.
The card opens with a junior featherweight bout between Sam Goodman and Ra’eese Aleem. Goodman (14-0) is ranked fourth by the IBF and WBO and is coming off a March unanimous decision win over T.J. Doheny to secure IBF and WBO secondary titles. Aleem (20-0) is ranked second by the WBO, fifth by the IBF, and seventh by the WBA. His most recent fight was last September, claiming a unanimous decision over Mike Plania for the WBO NABO title.
Main card for Tszyu vs. Ocampo
- Main event: Tim Tszyu vs. Carlos Ocampo, 12 rounds, for Tszyu’s WBO interim junior middleweight title
- Sam Goodman vs. Ra’eese Aleem, 12 rounds, junior featherweight
Preliminary card
- Justin Frost vs. Hassan Hamdan, 10 rounds, for Australian junior welterweight title
- Troy Pilcher vs. Hasely Hepi, 8 rounds, for Australian National Boxing Federation Queensland heavyweight title
- Rocky Ogden vs. Mark Schleibs, 6 rounds, featherweight
- Liam Talivaa vs. Isaac Liki, 4 rounds, heavyweight
- Vegas Larfield vs. Jhunrille Castino, 6 rounds, junior featherweight