Zuffa Boxing 12 start time, fight card, predictions and where to watch Chris Billam Smith vs. Cheavon Clarke — SkimNews
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- Chris Billam-Smith stopped Ryan Rozicki in the seventh round in his June Zuffa debut, unloading heavy punishment while Rozicki earned wider respect for showing "an iron chin and loads of heart," and his corner pulled him out.
- Cheavon Clarke rallied from two knockdowns by Jack Massey in the fourth round to score his own knockdown in the seventh and force a referee stoppage, his second win since back-to-back defeats to Leonardo Mosquea and Viddal Riley.
- DraftKings lists Billam-Smith at -450 and Clarke at +320 in the cruiserweight main event, with Denzel Bentley at -160 against Shane Mosley Jr. at +125 and Umar Dzambekov at -330 over Zach Parker at +250 among the other lines.
- Shane Mosley Jr. returns from his win over Serhii Bohachuk to face Denzel Bentley at middleweight, and says the bout is "a championship fight" in his eyes because Bohachuk was stripped of the WBO title before they met, even though sanctioning bodies do not treat it as one.
- Zuffa Boxing 12 takes place Nov. 6 at Copper Box Arena in London, with prelims beginning at 12:15 p.m. ET and the main card at 2 p.m. ET, streaming on Paramount+ with plans starting at $8.99 a month or $89.99 a year.
- Cheavon Clarke is credited with only one clear route to victory, connecting with one big punch, and the pick has Billam-Smith starting cautiously before turning up the heat for a late TKO9 stoppage.
Why it matters: Billam-Smith is a -450 favorite, yet Clarke's two knockdowns of Massey show the upset route is not hypothetical: he rallied from two fourth-round dropdowns to score a seventh-round knockdown and a stoppage. The pick still lands on a late TKO9 because Billam-Smith's own debut win came from the same stand-and-trade approach Clarke needs him to abandon.
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