Cruiserweight and Heavyweight thread.

"Bob Arum has mentioned a possible bout in the US in February and also Lucas Browne's people are talking to us about a big Trans-Tasman affair," Higgins told RadioLIVE.

"It would probably make sense in Auckland or New Zealand because Joe has a better fan base in New Zealand than Browne has in Australia so you could mount a big Trans-Tasman clash.

"Browne would have to be ranked by the WBO first but that could be possible so looking at December, maybe February which is a possibility.

"Joseph has a good profile in Australia because we gave away two or three of his fights for free to Fox Sports and they put him on their free channel.

"His last fight was put on Pay Per View and it didn’t do too bad. I was surprised how well it did - It wasn't massive but a decent amount of people got up to watch the fight which is encouraging."

On the possibility of giving Fujimoto a shot, Higgins added: "I have had multiple emails and there a few conversations underway and that is the best way for it to be because you want to create some competition so you can get the best deal possible.

"We'd make history because no Japanese heavyweight has ever fought for the heavyweight title and Japan is like the second biggest economy in the world.

"It is attractive to broaden Joseph's appeal and profile around the world and to go to an Asian centre would be great.

"It is a similar time zone to New Zealand and Australia for TV and so it really comes down to what the deal looks like and we have got discussions underway, but that is not the only discussion which is underway.

"It is about making money, but not only getting the money it is about expanding profile as well," he added.

A fight with the winner of the Tony Bellew v David Haye rematch is still high on the agenda for Higgins, although any fight with Browne could potentially push that encounter back until the summer.

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The amateur standout, Sauerland's heavyweight Albon Pervizaj will fight Predrag Jevtic on 7 October. This will be Pervizaj's 6 fight in pro ranks.

 

Heavyweight Mohamed Soltby back on 11 November on Gorman/Webb undercard.

 

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Omarov and Kuzmin had a fierce rivalry in the amateur ranks. In total heavyweight Sergey Kuzmin has fought against fellow Russian Magomed Omarov 6 times. In 2010 Kuzmin won via 6:3 score, in 2011 Omarov won via countback. They had 3 fights in 2012. Omarov won the first fight in 2012 via 12:7 score.The second fight in 2012 was won by Kuzmin by decision and the third fight in 2012 was won by Omarov via 12:7 score, in this fight Omarov was close to knocking out Kuzmin but Kuzmin somehow survived the onslaught from Omarov. In 2013 Kuzmin won via 9:2 score, this fight marked their last meeting in the amateurs.

 

Lolenga Mock has 13 KO's out of 55 fights but Mock dropped Haye in the 2 round of this fight:

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P.S. These days Mock is a super middleweight. Mock will most likely fight against Dmitry Chudinov on 25 November in Denmark.

 

Russian Nationals are underway.

Preliminaries 1/16 results in the super heavyweight division:

Magomed Omarov/Pavel Doroshilov 5:0
Shamil Mirzalov/Nodar Dzhalogoniya 5:0
Ruslan Chobanov/Shigabudin Aliyev ???
Andrey Batyrev/Ilya Kuznetsov 5:0
Artem Suslenkov/Khodzhiakbar Mamakov 3:2
Maxim Babanin/Mikhail Tarakanov AB 3
Yaroslav Doronichev/Sergey Smolin 5:0
Ruslan Shamalov/Suleyman Gadzhikhanov DQ 3
Dmitriy Filinskikh/Dmitriy Sidorenko 4:1
Sergey Maltsev/Dmitriy Mukhin 4:1
Viktor Chebanov/Danil Ermakov 3:2
Sergey Egorov/Amerkhan Kuntayev 5:0
Ivan Veryasov/Vitaliy Kudukhov 5:0



P.S. Pavel Doroshilov is continuing his career in the amateurs. Because of lack of fights, he moved back to amateurs. Also, Ruslan Shalamov is continuing his career in amateurs as well.Shamalov lost to young Arias in the pro ranks a few months ago.

 

This Russian championship will be different because the winners of this championship will be selected as part of Russian squad for the World Championships in 2019.

 

TYSON2FASTFURY‏Verified account @Tyson_Fury

After thinking long & hard about my return I will not be applying for aBBBOCboxinglicense. After they way they have handled stuff. No thanks

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Will also look to withdraw Hughies as well. Bent *******s all of them

 

Parker/Browne fight looks likely for December.

 

Browne by knockout or MD.