Saturday, May 11, 2019

Jarrett Hurd vs Julian Williams: How to Watch Live Stream Free

Watch Jarrett Hurd vs Julian Williams fight prediction, odds, undercard, start time, live stream, channel. If there has been a recurring theme in unified junior middleweight champion Jarrett Hurd's meteoric rise toward consideration among the best pound-for-pound fighters in the sport, it's that nothing has come easy.

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Following a brief and rather nondescript amateur career, Hurd (23-0, 16 KOs) wasn't provided the luxury of the hand-picked matchmaking and hype that surrounds a typical future star. Yet for each difficult test placed in front of him -- from then-unbeaten prospect Frank Galarza in 2015 to current WBC champion Tony Harrison in his first title bout two years later -- Hurd came through with performances that just about leaped through the television screen.


An impressive knockout of former champion Austin Trout followed to close 2017. Six months later, Hurd dropped long-reigning champion Erislandy Lara in Round 12 to cement a split-decision win that was voted the fight of the year.

After surgery and a get-well fight to test his left shoulder out, Hurd returns on Saturday in a homecoming bout that is anything but a gimme fight.

A native of nearby Accokeek, Maryland -- who, by the way, still proudly lives at home with his parents -- the 28-year-old Hurd will defend his IBF and WBA titles on Saturday against former title challenger Julian Williams (26-1-1, 16 KOs) in a Premier Boxing Champions card (8 p.m. ET, Fox, stream live on fuboTV) at EagleBank Arena in Fairfax, Virginia.

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The 29-year-old Williams, a gritty native of Philadelphia, brings the pedigree of a technical boxer and the backbone of a brawler, which has Hurd ready for anything that comes his way.

"It's hard to tell what type of fight this is going to be," Hurd said. "I want to say that he's going to try to box, but I said that about Erislandy Lara and we saw that he stood toe-to-toe with me. Because of my size, I don't really think Julian Williams is going to try to do that. He's going to try to get his shots off and score points and make it through 12 rounds."

There's a legitimate argument to make that Williams is the most underrated fighter in the division. Too many critics have focused on what happened during his lone title bout to date in 2016 when an uppercut from then-IBF champion Jermall Charlo knocked him down and led to a knockout loss shortly after in Round 5.

The reality is that Williams was winning the fight (in his opinion, handily) before the time of the stoppage and happened to get caught with the wrong punch at the wrong time.

"I don't know if I'm forgotten like some of these sports writers or experts might say," Williams said. "I wasn't going to let that happen. I know how boxing works. Losses happen. Knockouts happen. Just because you take a loss that doesn't mean you can't come back and be a great fighter.

"You just get back up on the horse.  You just can't stay down too long.  So I just got back in there and got a couple of wins. I knew this time would be coming. Boxing's got a way of pushing people out that takes a loss. And it's like, 'Oh, they're done.' The loser's always done."

Williams has bounced back with four straight wins since the loss to Charlo, including two by knockout, and firmly has the attention of Hurd as far as what type of challenge to expect.

Jarrett Hurd vs Julian Williams: How to Watch Live Stream Free

Watch Jarrett Hurd vs Julian Williams fight prediction, odds, undercard, start time, live stream, channel. If there has been a recurring the...