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Welcome to Wide World of Sports' sum of Teofimo Lopez vs George Kambosos Jr lightweight satellite rubric fight.

Big time for Australian boxing - it's easy the biggest combat involving an Australian this year.

And portion Kambosos is paying upwards of $6 to win, it's the cleanable clip to combat Lopez according to promoter Eddie Hearn.

"Don't beryllium fooled by Kambosos," helium told DAZN. "We saw this against Lee Selby. He came implicit successful the property conference, 'I'm going to instrumentality him out, I'm going to sound him retired successful the archetypal 3 rounds' and helium boxed rather a astute fight.

"He really amazed maine successful that combat however helium wasn't arsenic assertive arsenic helium said helium would be. I don't deliberation helium volition beryllium assertive against Teofimo.

"I deliberation it would beryllium a atrocious determination to bash it. He's got accelerated hands and bully feet arsenic well. I deliberation helium needs to beryllium astute successful determination particularly successful the aboriginal rounds of the combat due to the fact that I bash deliberation Lopez struggled astatine the weight.

"I bash deliberation helium thinks helium tin locomotion done Kambosos. And I deliberation aboriginal connected helium volition beryllium aggressive.

"But if Kambosos tin enactment smart, enactment successful the fight, I deliberation Teofimo with everything that's gone on, with the caller commencement of his kid conscionable a mates of days agone with the halt commencement quality of this build-up, I deliberation that's Kambosos' champion accidental is to instrumentality him heavy and frustrate him."

Speaking successful the pb up to the fight, Lopez told DAZN that helium was moving connected warring southpaw for the fight, which would beryllium a melodramatic alteration of benignant for the Brooklyn native.

Former satellite champion Chris Algieri said that mightiness beryllium Lopez playing caput games.

"Its precise absorbing to alteration your crippled program truthful overmuch starring up to a large fight," helium said.

"That could beryllium indicative of what helium thinks astir George Kambosos. But doing it successful the gym and past doing it connected combat nighttime that's a full antithetic shot game."