It seems that in spite of the flooding of Aleksander Povetkin (31-1, 23 KO), the Russian team does not give up the dream of winning the championship belt. Povetkin will return to the ring on July 1 in a match in Moscow. - The rival will be the top 15 heavyweight champion. This will be a duel ranking - an anonymous member of the team in an interview with the agency Tass. Alexander Povetkin has been removed twice from the WBC and IBF rankings after he was caught twice on the use of banned drugs (meldonium and ostaryn) last year. http://www.ringpolska.pl/boks-na-sw...52247-rywal-powietkina-ma-byc-top-15-rankingu
Charles Martin back in training! Former world heavyweight champion IBF Charles Martin (23-1-1, 21 KO) after a long break resumed boxing training. The American community praised the social media for photos of the sparring session. Martin won the International Boxing Federation's championship trophy in January last year, defeating Vyacheslav Glazkov to lose them three months later in defence for Antony Joshua. In August, Martin promoted by Al Hayman was shot in Los Angeles in his forearm and had to rest from training in the training room. http://www.ringpolska.pl/boks-na-swiecie/waga-ciezka-boks/52242-charles-martin-wznowil-treningi
Promoter of Krzysztof Włodarczyk talks about Gevor/Włodarczyk fight. - It will be a very interesting fight - says Andrzej Wasilewski, promoter of Krzysztof Włodarczyk (52-3-1, 37 KO), who will stand in front of the chance to win the title of world champion heavyweight champion, Eliminator with Noel Gevor (22-0, 10 KO). - Krzysztof, as the fans know, was twice world champion, and now has the opportunity to once again return to the throne. This fight is the last step in this direction. If there is no accident or accident, then in the case of winning with Gevor Krzysztof in the next fight boxing IBF with Gasijew belt - says co-owner of the group Sferis KnockOut Promotions. - This is an extremely important duel for Krzysztof, and in turn for us very special, because it is rare to be able to bring to the Polish player of the powerful German stables Sauerland Event. We did everything in our power to avoid a fight in Germany and rely on judging by the judges, who usually look favourably at the hosts there. It is a great financial challenge, but we decided that Krzysztof deserved his accomplishments to help him at that moment - admits Wasilewski, adding: - The preparations are going very well, Krzysztof weighs 95 kilos, he returned to form because he was sick earlier. We have a good time for Krzysztof to get the optimum form! http://www.ringpolska.pl/krzysztof-...-to-dla-diablo-ostatni-krok-przed-walka-o-pas
Results round up: Andrey Afonin/Tornike Puritchamiashvili ko 2 Ruslan Shamalov/Oleksandr Nesterenko tko 1 Donnie Palmer/Bobby Favors tko 1 Ruann Visser/Ashraf Suleiman tko 3 Simon Kean/Michael Marrone ko 1.Kean stopped Marrone faster than everybody else, including names like Shannon Briggs, Guillermo Jones and Francesco Pianeta.Kean is set for big things.
BREAKING: Tervel Pulev will face Ramazi Gogichashvili tomorrow in Berlin, Germany. It will be a warm up fight before him and his brother fight again in Sofia on 28th April.
Perhaps Charles Martin is the opponent for Povetkin. He is top 15 rated by two organizations. Top 7 on boxrec too.