Cruiserweight and Heavyweight thread.

Aleksander Povetkin (32-1, 23 KO) will face Christian Hammer (22-4, 12 KO) at the Ekaterinburg gala.

Alexey Titow of Mir Boks said in an interview with R-Sport that Hammer and his promoter, after long negotiations, had finally signed a contract for the duel.

For now, it is not known what will be the rate of the fight with the Hammer. The custodians of the Russian Federation make efforts to get the winner of the fight the status of an obligatory challenger is the title of WBO or WBA heavyweight championship.

http://www.ringpolska.pl/boks-na-sw...hammer-oficjalnie-15-grudnia-w-jekaterynburgu

 

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Hearn will sign Takam, just watch.

 

Eddie Hearn, the promoter of Anthony Joshua, was impressed by the attitude of Carlos Takam (35-4-1, 27 KO) during Saturday's Cardiff gala. The Cameroonian lost to England by a technical knockout in the tenth round but left a very good impression behind.

- Yes, I can be sure that he will appear on my shows. In the coming months, we will be organizing gala in the United Kingdom, the United States and Monaco. Surely there will be some place for a good fight with his participation. He worked on it, Hearn argues.

It is possible that if Deontay Wilder does not agree to fight Dillian Whyte, his place will be Takam. And who would not want to see Takam fight with Jarrell Miller? Today is still too early to talk about something concrete, "explains the head of Matchroom.

I did accept the fight with Joshua a little early. A dozen or so days before the match, Kubrat Pulew was forced to fight with the Englishman and the Cameroonian replaced him.

http://www.ringpolska.pl/boks-na-sw...takam-jeszcze-bedzie-boksowal-na-moich-galach

 

Things started off with the seemingly never-ending case of Fres Oquendo’s legal case concerning the “regular” WBA title. Oquendo won his case to fight for the vacant title after losing a highly controversial decision to then champ Ruslan Chagaev. Chagaev then lost to Lucas Browne, who tested positive for PEDs. The WBA ordered Oquendo-Shannon Briggs. Briggs subsequently tested positive for PEDs. It was then recommended Oquendo fight Alexander Ustinov, but Ustinov is supposedly fighting Manuel Charr in a bout advertised for that very WBA “regular” title! Oquendo’s legal representative John Wirt offered to fight the next available contender Kubrat Pulev and asked the WBA to look into the advertisements for the Ustinov-Charr fight for the “regular’ title. Ustinov’s rep Vlad Hrunov rebutted that the fight was being advertised as an eliminator, but Wirt tendered a printout off the internet for tickets to the Ustinov-Charr fight declaring it a world title fight.

http://fightnews.com/wba-convention-update-medellin-colombia/7823

 

At Monday’s EBU purse bid in Rome, Italy, Antwerp Boxing Academy earned the right to stage the next European cruiserweight championship between titleholder Yves Ngabu (18-0, 13 KOs) and challenger Geoffrey Battelo (32-5, 28 KOs) offering a squared 40,000 Euros bid which exceeded a 21,000 Euro offer made by Fabian Detaille. The two Belgian fighters were already scheduled to face each other last June for the vacant title, but an injury occurred to Battelo as a consequence of a car accident forced him to pass the opportunity. After Italian cruiserweight Mirko Larghetti also refused to confirm his willingness to fight a few days later, journeyman Tamas Lodi was called with very short notice and was approved as co-challenger to face the unbeaten 28-year-old Ngabu in order to ‘save’ the boxing show in Roeselare, Belgium, but then he quickly lost by TKO in round four to the Belgian puncher, who became the new European 200 lbs champion. No word yet by the winning promoter about a date or venue where stage the fight.

http://fightnews.com/ebu-updates-7/7806

 

Silver medalist of the Olympic Games in Rio Vasily Levit told in an interview to the correspondent of the Republican Internet portal Sports.kz about the restoration after the World Championship in Hamburg, where he managed to win a bronze award, on his further plans and much more.
"Vasily, how are you feeling?"
- Thank you, it's all right. Now I have restorative measures. Starting tomorrow, I start training.

- Will you participate in the upcoming national championship?
- No. I have a reason. At the World Championships, I broke my hand after the second fight, and I had to heal the trauma. At the moment I have undergone rehabilitation course and very soon I start full-fledged training.

- Who will be the favorite of the championship of Kazakhstan in your weight category this year?
- We will see. Will watch. Ring will show.

- Ivan Dychko made his professional debut. Did you watch his fights?
- Of course. Ivan - well done. I want to congratulate him. Two battles won early. I would like to wish him further success. To continue to glorify our Motherland, showed all the beauty of Kazakhstan boxing.

- A number of young Kazakhstani boxers are turning into pros. Do you regret the decision to continue to perform in amateurs?
- No, I'm stable (Smiles).

- The Astana team reached the semifinals of the Cup of the Kazakhstan Boxing Federation. Is it worth waiting for your participation in fights?
- Now it is important for me to recruit form, train, and there we will make a decision together with the trainers. And so, - why not?

- When did you feel that Kazakhstan is the world power of boxing?
- I knew about this always. Since the earliest years, when they began to get carried away by boxing, the battles of our champions watched. Always to the boxers of Kazakhstan treated with respect and in a special way set up to fight against us.

- What do you think about Golovkin's possible revenge against Alvarez?
- Whether he will or not - I can not say that. I can speak as a fan: if this fight takes place, then I will be very happy. Of course, I will support our champion Gennady Golovkin.

- Reviewed the semi-final battle of the World Cup against the Cuban Erislandi Savona?
- Yes.

- What conclusions can be drawn?
- There were my mistakes. So there is something to add. We'll start training, - I will work to become even stronger.

 

Dubois lost this fight:

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