BoxRec #43 heavyweight Mourad Aliev will return on the Yoka-Okolie card. The 6'7" Aliev is 14-1, with just one close decision loss.
To my favorite fat cruiser, Labinot Xhoxhai, it a wild fight in which Aliev went over the top like a WWE wrestler.
Suslenkov looked very good stopping Mann in 3. Interested to see his next step up. Sergey Kalchugin didn’t look completely shot at 38 and 4 years out the ring. Made the big Uzbek retire at the end of the 3rd round.
He gets those IBA fights. Might be tough for him to get a title shot, but he'll always have a fight in front of him. It confuses me that the Hunter fight doesn't count, though. The WBA even recognized it on their site for a long tome, and then erased it.
Andrii Novytskyi 15-0 is fighting Alexander Flores 21-5-1 on Friday April 24. Novytskyi is somewhat underrated. Like many other East Europeans, he's not been able to find meaningful opponents. But this is not a bad matchup - Flores has won his past two by stoppage, including his last fight with Cassius Chaney.