Can Bryant Jennings or Luis Ortiz Move Up the Ladder?
Jennings and Ortiz are both quality heavyweights with very different styles looking to make an imprint in a suddenly wide-open division.
The pair will meet Saturday night at the Turning Stone Casino and Resort in Verona, New York, on HBO, with the winner doing himself plenty of favors in a division now ruled by a brash Brit rather than it's stoic longtime champion.
Jennings gave Klitschko a decent scrap earlier this year at Madison Square Garden, a result which in hindsight may have both reflected the Philadelphian's skill and the former champ's decline. He's been out of the ring since.
Ortiz is a big, solid heavyweight puncher, but he does come with some baggage.
The 36-year-old Cuban tested positive for steroids after knocking out Lateef Kayode in the first round last year, and this fight has been conducted under the auspices of the Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency (VADA) testing protocol.
This has the potential to be an exciting and intriguing fight, and the winner definitely will place himself in contention for a shot at a title (real or alphabet) in short order.