The highly anticipated grudge match between Michael Zerafa and Issac Hardman hits Melbourne on Wednesday when the two will look to settle their differences inside the ring.
Zerafa (29-4) has the ring experience but it will be youngster Hardman (12-0) who comes to the fight the favorite, paying 1.60 for the head-to-head victory, according to Palmerbet. Zerafa pays 2.20 to have his hand raised. Prices were accurate at the time of publishing.
In the semi-main event, Chernaka Johnson will clash with Mexican Melissa Esquivel for the vacant International Boxing Federation world super bantamweight title.
How to watch Hardman vs Zerafa in Australia? The broadcast rights for this fight were a hotly discussed topic in the lead-up with the fight ending up on popular combat sports online broadcaster Fite TV.
Jepchirchir prevailed in Boston in 2 hours, 21 minutes, 2 seconds, outdueling Ethiopian Ababel Yeshaneh over the final miles. Yeshaneh, who exchanged the lead with Jepchirchir multiple times in the last mile, crossed four seconds back.
Kenyan Mary Ngugi was third. The top American was Nell Rojas in 10th. Olympic bronze medalist Molly Seidel dropped out before reaching 20 miles.
Jepchirchir consolidated her status as the world’s top female marathoner after winning the Olympics and New York City last year. Already the only person to win the Olympic and New York City Marathons, she has now won three of the most prestigious marathons in a span of eight months.
2022 USFL TV schedule: Dates, times, channels, live streams for the 10-week inaugural football season – NBC SportsJepchirchir ran track growing up in western Kenya in a family of farmers who grew tea and maize. She ran two to three miles to and from school each day.
She won the world half marathon championship in 2016, then had daughter Natalia in October 2017 and came back to earn her first marathon victory in December 2019. She was originally left off the Kenyan Olympic team in January 2020, then won the December 2020 Valencia Marathon in the world’s best time for the year (2:17:16), beginning what is now a four-marathon win streak.
Chebet clocked 2:06:51 for his first major marathon victory, leading the first Kenyan men’s podium sweep in Boston since 2012. The 2019 Boston winner Lawrence Cherono was second, 30 seconds behind, followed by Benson Kipruto, who won Boston last year when it was held in October.
Chebet had the second-fastest personal best of arguably the deepest Boston field ever, a 2:03:00 from winning the 2020 Valencia Marathon. The farmer from the Kalenjin tribe beat nine major marathon champions on Monday.
Scott Fauble was the top U.S. man in seventh in a personal-best 2:08:52, the second-fastest marathon for an American since the start of 2020.
Boston, the world’s oldest annual marathon, was held on its traditional Patriots’ Day date for the first time since 2019. The race was held virtually in 2020 and moved to October in 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
This year’s Boston fields were arguably the best ever, thanks in large part to the other major spring marathon, London, being pushed back to October for a third consecutive year due to the pandemic.
American Daniel Romanchuk won the men’s wheelchair race in 1:26:58 after defending champion Marcel Hug of Switzerland withdrew before the morning start.
Swiss Manuela Schär earned her fourth women’s wheelchair title in the last five Boston Marathons.
The next major marathon is at the world track and field championships in Eugene, Oregon, in July. The
