A few notes from around the boxing world:

Anthony Joshua’s heavyweight world title win, a second-round destruction of Charles Martin on April 9 at the sold-out O2 Arena in London, averaged 275,000 viewers for the live afternoon airing on Showtime, according to Nielsen Media Research. The fight peaked at 317,000 viewers. Those are good numbers for an afternoon premium cable fight, especially considering it was the first time Joshua was appearing on American television and that the vast majority of attention on boxing that week in the United States was on Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley III, which took place that same night. Matchroom Boxing’s Eddie Hearn, who promotes the British star, is in talks with HBO and Showtime about an American television contract for Joshua, who is already aligned with the United Kingdom’s Sky Sports, which has an exclusive multi-year deal with Matchroom Boxing to provide the network with its boxing content.

Welterweight Eddie Gomez (18-1, 11 KOs), 23, of Bronx, New York, who has not fought since last April, will return to face Puerto Rico’s John Karl Sosa (13-1, 6 KOs) in a 10-round bout that will headline a Golden Boy Promotions card on May 20 (Estrella TV) at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California. "2016 should be a big year for Eddie's career and this fight is one that will give him another opportunity to demonstrate he is a force to be reckoned with in the hot welterweight division,” Golden Boy CEO Oscar De La Hoya said. “Similarly, John Karl Sosa is taking his career to the next level with this challenging fight and moving up in weight. Sosa is tough and is going to make Eddie fight with all he's made of on May 20." In the 10-round lightweight co-feature, Fidel Maldonado Jr. (21-3, 18 KOs), of Albuquerque, New Mexico, will face Art Hovhannisyan (17-2-2, 9 KOs), of Glendale, California. Also, 7-foot Chinese heavyweight Taishan Dong (6-0, 3 KOs) will face a foe to be determined in a six-rounder.