Information reaching Boxingghana.com indicates that Ghana’s Isaac Dogboe will make a return to the ring following his back-to-back loses to Emanuel Navarette.
Per report by Boxingnews24 seen by Boxingghana.com, Dogboe will be facing two-time Irish Olympian Michael Conlan (12-0, 7 KOs) who will be coming down in weight from featherweight to fight super bantamweight.
Dogboe and Conlan will be fighting on the undercard of WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford vs. Egidijus Kavaliauskas on ESPN.
The card already has IBF lightweight champion Richard Commey defending against Teofimo Lopez as the likely co-feature bout on December 14, 2019, at the Madison Square Garden in New York
There’s also a chance that Conlan, 27, could face former featherweight world title challenger Genesis Servania (32-2, 15 KOs) on December 7th.
This is a gamble on Conlan and Top Rank’s part for him to move down to super bantamweight, because he’ll have a tough time against Dogboe or Servania.
What Top Rank might be counting on in having Conlan face the 5’2″ Dogboe is for him to use size advantage. The 5’8″ Conlan would have a massive height, and reach advantage over Dogboe.
That might be enough for him to win, but it would still be tough for Conlan. Former WBO super bantamweight champion Dogboe, 24, lost his title to knockout artist Emanuel Navarrete (28-1, 24 KOs) last December in losing a 12 round unanimous decision.
In their rematch on May 11, Navarrete stopped Dogboe in the 12th round. Conlan would be getting Dogboe at the perfect time for him to beat him, but it won’t be easy.
Dogboe is real warrior, and he won’t give up. It’ll be a war of attrition. The management for Dogboe would be doing him no favors in putting him in with Conlan right now, because he’s had three hard fights against Navarrete and Jessie Magdaleno.
It’s clear that Conlan is being positioned to try and snatch the World Boxing Organization super bantamweight title once Navarrete vacates, and moves up to 126. Conlan stands a better chance of winning the vacant WBO title at 122 than he would in fighting Shakur Stevenson for the vacant WBO featherweight belt.