Lyndon Arthur vs Davide Faraci Fight Card Preview, Tips, Odds & Predictions

After an early summer break, boxing returns to BT Sport for the first time in over four weeks as the hard hitting Mancunian light heavyweight Lyndon Arthur defends his WBO Inter-Continental light heavyweight crown against the unbeaten Davide Faraci.

Also on the card is Derby's Zach Parker taking on Sherzod Khusanov in a WBO International Super Middleweight Title whilst Archie Sharp takes on Diego Andrade Chavez for the WBO Global super featherweight title.

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Very much seen as one of the biggest prospects this country has got to offer in the lighter weight classes, Archie Sharp has built up a solid record of 19 wins from his 19 pro bouts to date with nine stoppage wins coming in the process.

Standout victories over domestic rivals Lyon Woodstock, Jordan McCorry, Declan Geraghty, and most recently, Jeff Ofori, have seen the Londoner shoot to second in the WBO world rankings and a big performance here should set him up nicely for a huge fight later in the summer.

Andrade Chavez is the much lesser known of the two and rightly so having never fought outside of Mexico in his 19 fights to date with a majority of those fights coming at featherweight.

There's been plenty of upsets from Mexicans coming over to the UK in the past couple of years but this should be fairly straightforward for Sharp and we're expecting him to get the stoppage victory against an opponent who has taken this fight at just a weeks notice.

Prediction: Archie Sharp to win by KO/TKO/DQ

Now for what we believe could well turn out to be the fight of the night.

Zach Parker has very much gone under the radar in British boxing mainly due to the fact that he wasn't given the television coverage he probably deserved prior to his controversial victory over Darryll Williams on the World Boxing Super Series card in November of 2018.

Since then, however, he has left promoters Sauerlands and teamed up with Frank Warren and with him recently installed as the number one challenger to Canelo Alvarez's WBO crown, a huge career-defining fight is looming for the Derby man.

An easy-on-the-eye, fast-flowing style, Parker has shown he can whack a bit too accumulating 14 stoppage wins from his 20 career victories to date. However, in Sherzod Khusanov he comes up against his toughest opponent to date.

A typically well-schooled amateur hailing from Uzbekistan, he suffered a close points decision defeat to the then 40-0-1 Pole Damian Jonak before defeat once again in his last fight against another unbeaten fighter in Aslambek Idigov in April of this year.

Notoriously tough, Khusanov doesn't have the biggest punch output but what he will do is make Parker work till the final bell by cutting off the ring and whipping in lethal hooks to the head from a high guard.

Parker has the size advantage though and he'll be looking to use that to his advantage which he undoubtedly will do. Expect Parker to fight at range in the early stages of the fight but then look to mix it up on the inside the longer the fight goes on to create openings for the knockout. No one has ever stopped Khusanov, so if Parker manages to do that, he'll send out a big message to the rest of the top boys at 168lbs.

Prediction: Zach Parker to win by Decision/Technical Decision

The main event sees the unbeaten Mancunian, Lyndon Arthur, take on the unbeaten Italian Davide Faraci for the WBO Inter-Continental light heavyweight crown.

Lyndon has built up quite a reputation for himself over the years. After being a part of the GB elite squad as an amateur, he turned professional under the tutelage of former world title challenger Pat Barrett. The pair have a simply wonderful connection together after Barrett took Arthur under his wing as a young teenager after Lyndon's brother was tragically shot.

With a record of 18 wins coming from 18 fights with 12 wins by stoppage, Arthur cemented his place on the world scene in his last fight with a boxing masterclass over domestic rival Anthony Yarde. Renowned for his long snappy jab, Yarde never found a way inside it to really get to Arthur with the Mancunian claiming a split decision victory.

His opponent, meanwhile, is relatively unknown to boxing fans outside of Italy and Switzerland. By no means a bad amateur himself, Faraci was born in Switzerland but now fights out of Lazio in central Italy.

He's mainly fought in Italy and Switzerland for all of his career but he did pick up victory in his last fight on away soil to the unbeaten German Emre Cukur.

However, the problem with Faraci is that he hasn't really got a name on his record, unlike Arthur with Yarde on his resumé. He isn't renowned for his punch power with a 46% stoppage ratio compared to Lyndon's 66% so it's hard to see what he is going to bring to really trouble Lyndon.

Arthur will as usual look to establish his jab early on in the fight and like the famous saying in boxing goes, everything comes off the back of a good jab and once Lyndon gets into his rhythm with that, expect him to get Faraci out of there.

Prediction: Lyndon Arthur to win by KO/TKO/DQ