Cruiserweight and Heavyweight thread.

Former Cruiserweight contender Yury Kashinksy (22-3 KO 19) will make his Bareknuckle debut this Saturday against Heavyweight Journeyman German Skobenko.

 

I know it’s Bareknuckle news but few ex boxers fought today.

in Russia, German Skobenko defeated Yury Kashinksy via UD. Kashinksy’s face was a mess at the end.

In the UK, Kamil Sokolowski scored a KO victory in just 3 seconds. I watched it and to be fair it was 2 good hooks that finished the job.

 

Canadian heavyweight Simon “The Grizzly” Kean (23-2, 22 KOs) has decided to retire from the ring at the age of 35.​

 

Probably the best decision he ever made.

 

Sokolowski is a very tough hard nosed journeyman. His style translates pretty well to BKB. I'm sure he'll do pretty well, this is an excellent start.

 

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Jalalov had an easy victory over the young Cuban in the World Championships final after getting a walkover in the semi’s.

 

Well, Usyk-Fury may have been postponed today, but fret not everyone. We still have some Heavyweight action to look forward to.

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Charr-Pulev is on for March 30th.

What a consolation prize that is

 

Alexander Dorofeev scored a UD over Austine Nnamdi.

Artem Suslenkov stopped Bilal Laggoune at the of the 2nd round.

 

The REAL championship.

 

Apparently Turki has made an offer to Hrgovic to appear on the March 8th card. Gave him a bunch of opponents to pick from.

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He's also reiterated that Usyk-Fury has a rematch clause, so even though the plan is for the AJ-Ngannou winner to fight the winner of undisputed, it won't be an immediate thing. In the meantime, AJ will probably fight Hrgovic for the vacant IBF strap.

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Looks like the plan might be to get the belts reunified after the IBF strips the winner of the first fight. Probably won't stay unified long in either instance, but hey at least we might still end up with two fights with all the belts on the line, despite IBF shenanigans

 

Cmon Wardley!

 

Why is it missing from Boxrec? Suslenkov's match with Kevin Johnson (ended in a draw) some time ago is also missing.

Also this match:
https://www.wbaboxing.com/boxing-news/la-cruz-is-new-wba-gold-champion

 

Mildly intrigued in this one. At least the division will be somewhat active that weekend, even if some of the participants are ghosts from the Klitschko era.

 

Most of these fights have been taking place on the IBA ‘Night of Champions’ shows. For some reason they are being defined as Exhibition bouts but are seen as true professional bouts in Russia.

 

Me too haha