Cruiserweight and Heavyweight thread.

Gassiev talks about his upcoming fight against Yunier Dorticos:

"The next fight with the Cuban Junier Dorticos will take place in the new year in Miami, the preliminary number of the fight is January 20. Most likely, the fight will take place at the same time as the previous one, however, the date may change. Dorticos is a very strong opponent, but I'm ready for the fight and aim at winning.

Being in the ocean, in America, I felt the love of every grandmother, every grandfather, even a child who was ready even at night, to get up early and see my fight. This motivated me very much and I hope that the tradition to please with their victories will continue. "

 

"I'll say right away: I have not watched his fights yet, I've had it disassembled by the coach so far, and right now, when we start sparring, we'll sit down together and we'll sort out how we better approach it and what it's better to do. , weak opponents are not there, especially since he is on the first line of the WBO rating, in fact, one task is to go out and show an interesting, beautiful box, "Povetkin told journalists in response to a question about whether he was watching fights involving Hammer and what to expect from him on December 15.

 

I think Tom Schwarz, Zhilei Zhang and Bjflores are possible for the reserve spot.

 

Povetkin hasn't started sparring for Hammer fight yet. He finished the 1 phase of training just recently. Kownacki will be amongst his first sparring partners and will sparr with Povetkin for 4 weeks.

 

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Zhang sure has a smart team. They invited Parker to defend his title against Zhang but Parker's team rejected the offer because they wanted more money to come to China, they will regret that once Parker will start to lose and won't get that many offers. But that offer for Parker was a smart move but they would need to pay 6 mill to Parker to make that fight. They had an offer from Russia, from Povetkin or Kuzmin or both but rejected that. Had talks with Joshua's team but that failed to get the deal done. It's clear that they don't want their prospect to lose in the beginning of his career, so they are rejecting big fights.

 

WBA is pushing for the Joshua/Povetkin fight if Povetkin fights Hammer and beats him this could be next.

 

Prior to the completion of Hammer/Povetkin deal, Povetkin's team made offers to Briggs, Martin, Schwarz and Wallin.