“We have received the personal assurance from Gilberto Mendoza, President of the WBA, that Charr vs. Ustinov will not be for the WBA championship, but rather will be an elimination bout for the right to fight Fres for the title,” Hitz said. “I’m not sure what bill of goods Malte [Muller-Michaelis] sold Charr’s financial backer, Christian Jaeger, but if Jaeger believed a guy whose testimony in our Federal lawsuit their own lawyers conceded was not creditable, I guess he’ll figure out soon enough who he is dealing with,” Hitz continued. “It’s ridiculous if you really think about it. Fres was supposed to fight Briggs for the WBA title in June. Briggs tested dirty and was suspended by the WBA. The WBA resolution anticipated this and provided that if Briggs tested dirty, Fres was to fight Ustinov next. There is just no way that after winning in U.S. Federal court and after Briggs tested positive and that fight was cancelled due to no fault of Fres, who tested clean, that the WBA would punish Fres and deny him his shot at the title. That Jaeger drank the Kool-Aid that Charr would be fighting Ustinov for the title before Fres’ shot just blows my mind.” “In fact, just last week, our team’s attorney sued last Briggs and his promoter, the Heavyweight Factory, over the cancellation of Fres’ fight against Briggs,” Hitz said. “We have demonstrated our commitment to Fres and to protecting his legal rights. Mendoza is smart and a lawyer himself. He is not going to expose the WBA over this.” “In the past two years since winning our Federal lawsuit, between Hitz Boxing and our partner Square Ring, we have promoted well over 20 events and could have promoted a bout for Fres on any one of them, but didn’t because we didn’t want to make Fres ‘unavailable’ and lose his shot. Now that Ustinov and Charr have decided to fight each other and are ‘unavailable,’ we will be petitioning the WBA to designate a new opponent for Fres to fight for the title. We have some things in the works which we hope to announce soon.”
How so? Pulev was moved faster. The bad example was on your end not mine. Kuzmin is approaching the 3 year mark... His career has stalled. Pulev had several more fights and had beaten better opposition in that time span. We want to see Kuzmin moved a bit faster and tested. Why does that bother you so much?
Pulev is limited and his fight against Wlad showed that. His promoter has matched him with crap opponents all his career and now you are making him as an example?Wow.
I never was bothered by that, you should be bothered by the fact that Pulev will be knocked out cold once again in his next fight.
You mean the poor example that you made and I dismantled? He's making 5 million and is again stepping in against the top dog in the sport. What's your point exactly? Stop whining and becoming overly defensive about prospects you like.
Swedish heavyweight Adrian Granat will as was announced in a press release from Team Granat return to action after the loss to Aleksandre Dimitrenko November 1 or 3 in Hamburg. Joining Granat on this EC Boxing promotion are heavyweight prospects Agron Skamici (10-0) and Ali Eren Demirezen (6-0) and cruiser Nikola Milalic (17-1). Source:box-scene
Former WBO cruiserweight king Marco Huck is not about to hang up the gloves and tells BILD that he will continue his career next year in the heavyweight division. Source:box-scene
Of course he wouldn't... Huge draw in Germany and there's still a lot of money to be made. Honestly.. Despite him slipping it wouldn't shock me 1 bit if he turned out to be the #1 German based HW.
Granat will have to a lot in order to atone for the embarrassing loser/exposure at the hands of Dimitrenko. I'd still like to see the Wallin fight personally, even if it's lost a bit of charm. Wallin wide UD or late stoppage.
Full WBC ranks: CHAMPION: DEONTAY WILDER (US) EMERITUS CHAMPION: VITALI KLITSCHKO (UKRAINE) WON TITLE: January 17, 2015 LAST DEFENSE: February 25, 2017 LAST COMPULSORY: January 17, 2015 WBA CHAMPION: Anthony Joshua (GB) IBF CHAMPION: Anthony Joshua (GB) WBO CHAMPION: Joseph Parker (New Zealand) Contenders: WBC SILVER CHAMPION: VACANT WBC INT. CHAMPION: Dillian Whyte (Jamaica/GB) 1 .- Bermane Stiverne (Haiti/Canada) 2 .- Luis Ortiz (Cuba) 3 .- Dillian Whyte (Jamaica/GB) INTL 4 .- Andy Ruiz (Mexico) 5 .- Carlos Takam (Cameroon) 6 .- Dominic Breazeale (US) Up 1 spot 7 .- Mariusz Wach (Poland) 8 .- Dereck Chisora (GB) 9 .- Johann Duhaupas (France) 10 .- Oscar Rivas (Colombia/US) NABF Enters at 10. Wasn't rated before his latest fight. 11 .- Charles Martin (US) Down 1 spot 12 .- Eric Molina (US) Down 1 spot 13 .- Agit Kabayel (Germany) EBU Down 1 spot 14 .- Lucas Browne (Australia) Down 2 spots 15 .- Adam Kownacki (US) CBP/P Down 1 spot 16 .- Robert Helenius (Finland) INTL Silver 17 .- Kyotaro Fujimoto (Japan) OPBF Fujimoto down 2 spots 18 .- Hughie Fury (GB) 19 .- Tony Bellew (GB) 20 .- Alexander Dimitrenko (Russia) 21 .- Amir Mansour (US) USNBC 22 .- Trevor Bryan (US) 23 .- Alexander Ustinov (Russia) 24 .- Travis Kauffman (US) 25 .- Bryant Jennings (US) 26 .- Sergey Kuzmin (Russia) Kuzmin down 4 spots. 27 .- Carlos Negron (P. Rico) AMERICA 28 .- Gerald Washington (US) 29 .- Tomas Adamek (Poland) 30 .- Tom Schwarz (Germany) 31 .- Joey Abell (US) 32 .- Arnold Gjergjaj (Switzerland) 33 .- Dillon Carman ((US) 34 .- Jun Long Zhang (China) 35 .- Otto Wallin (Sweden) 36 .- Daniel Dubois (GB) YOUTH 37 .- Adrian Granat (Sweden) 38 .- Lenroy Thomas (Jamaica) COMM 39 .- Laron Mitchell (US) NABF Jr. 40 .- Herve Hubeaux (Belgium) * NA = NOT AVAILABLE Andriy Rudenko (Ukraine) * NA - Legal Kubrat Pulev (Bulgaria) * NA - WBA-IBF Continental Federations Champions: ABCO: ABU: BBBofC: CISBB: CONOSUR: Matias Vidondo (Argentina) EBU: Agit Kabayel (Germany) FECARBOX: NABF: Oscar Rivas (Colombia/US) OPBF: Kyotaro Fujimoto (Japan) Affiliated Titles Champions: Continental Americas: Carlos Negron (P. Rico) Francophone: Latino: Mediterranean: USNBC: Amir Mansour (US) Youth: Daniel Dubois (GB Regional Champions: Commonwealth: Lenroy Thomas (Jamaica) EBU-EU EE-EU NA= Not Available: This shall be limited to other organization's champions (inc. Interim) not listed above, any opponents of those champions in a scheduled defence, and those who cannot fight due to medical, legal, or personal issues (and those who do not wish to fight for the WBC) Source:http://wbcboxing.com/wbceng/index.php/ratings?layout=edit&id=139
Well, looks like both Sirenko and Plevako have trouble getting a visa to the US, that's why they don't have fights scheduled.