By Alexey Sukachev

One day following a huge two-championship doubleheader in Moscow (featuring Lebedev vs. Jones and Povetkin vs. Wawrzyk showdowns), the Moscow Region will be rocked again – this time to a lesser degree. On May 18 Dmitry Bogomolov and Pavel Popov of the Podolsk Fighting League will stage a tiny show at the Yunost sports arena in the nearby city of Klimovsk with a couple of familiar names leading the card.

Previously undefeated American Kelvin Price (13-1, 6 KOs), who suffered a damaging knockout loss to the up-and-coming American heavyweight hope Deontay Wilder in December 2012, will try to fine-tune his skills versus a much more recognized (but way too faded) name. He will face a former Tyson conqueror Danny Williams (44-16, 33 KOs) in a scheduled ten-rounder. Williams lost his last six (three – inside the distance) while being on the tour all over Europe since his crushing loss to Dereck Chisora in May 2010. Williams looks to be a very shot, damaged fighter and is well advised to hang’em up before something irreversible has happened, but he continues to fight on under a bogus Latvian license no matter what.

Several local prospects will constitute the undercar of the show. Formerly ranked bantamweight Sahib Usarov (18-0, 6 KOs), who has a win over Olympic champion Yan Barthelemy Varela in his past, returns to the ring in an eight-rounder against the Kazakh import Zandos Zhetpisbayev (5-5, 2 KOs). Lightweight hitter Roman Andreev (13-0, 10 KOs) is scheduled for ten against the Nicaraguan native Miguel Aguilar (11-6, 5 KOs). The Dominican bantamweight Abigail Medina (9-1-2, 5 KOs) will test Nikolay Potapov (9-0, 6 KOs), and Dmitry Chudinov’s brother Fedor (5-0, 4 KOs) will battle the Cuban veteran Julio Acosta (5-1-1, 3 KOs), also over eight.