Cruiserweight and Heavyweight thread.

Glowacki struggled with Radchenko but Cislak got wide UD over Radchenko, we are talking levels here....

 

“After Epic Sports won the purse bid for my IBF elimination bout against Dillian Whyte with a bid of $1.5 million, double what Whyte’s own promoter, Eddie Hearn [of Matchroom Boxing] bid, I was expecting Whyte and his promoter to run away from the fight, but I didn’t expect from them to be such jerks about it,” Pulev said.

“They are extreme manipulators and plain schizophrenics. I can't believe what I'm hearing and what tricky way they chose to run away from the fight in Bulgaria. The whole time Hearn kept talking in circles about negotiations and how they are still trying to bring me to UK. All this while a date and a place was already announced for the fight on August 25 in Sofia.

"A formal IBF contract was sent to Whyte but they didn’t sign it. This is not some club show we are talking about, but a major fight with global interest between two legitimate top ten heavyweights that would decide the future of the heavyweight division. The bottom line is that they lost the bid but instead of playing by the rules, Eddie Hearn and his fighter decided to pick up their marbles and go home with their tails between their legs.”

“Hearn and Whyte did everything they could to avoid fighting me. First, they tried desperately to change the purse bid split. The IBF denied their request. They then repeatedly delayed the purse bid by saying that we were ‘close’ to making a deal. But that was never true. The negotiations were a joke and I told my team to take it to a purse bid. Then, even after they lost the bid, they made us seven figure offers to try and bring the fight back to England, but we said no way. You lost; so what more is there to talk about?

"Hearn then tried to say that Epic did not have the money to pay the 20% deposit, but when we proved them wrong again and they were staring at a contract to fight in Bulgaria, that’s when they panicked and Hearn talked his guy into pulling out instead of facing me. They are nothing but a bunch of yellow cowards.

 

Yves Ngabu vs. Noel Gevor, 12 rounds, for Ngabu's European cruiserweight title, on June 29th.

 

"I believe that a deal will be done within the next month or so for Joshua to fight Wilder, it's just a case of whether we jump in with Povetkin first."

"A deal with Povetkin is close. Very close," Hearn said. "It's either going to be Wilder then Povetkin or Povetkin then Wilder.

 

He believes that a stoppage win for Whyte makes a rematch with Joshua a "dead cert".

"It's a real surprise and a shock that they both took this fight. I think they are both a little bit mad for taking the fight but I respect them because both guys are hugely ranked.

"Joseph Parker is coming of one of the biggest fights in heavyweight history - a loss but the first guy to take Anthony Joshua the distance. Dillian Whyte is ranked top by the WBC - top three or four with everyone else - but they just want to fight. They want to entertain and they want to gamble.

"I am so pleased for Dillian Whyte that he gets this opportunity and gets this platform because he's done everything that has been asked of him."

 

Nikolajs Grisunins back on July 14th

Joe Joyce will fight Richard Lartey on June 15th

Luis Garcia will face Miguel Cubos on June 23rd.

 

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Junior Fa has a new opponent in Luis Pascual on June 22, upgrade from previous opponent.

 

He has some power, so hopefully this won't be walk in the park. But agenda always is to pay less and earn more, at least for majority.

 

I love what Warren is doing with Dubois, giving Tom Little fight to him, so early in his career.

 

He is six feet five, so not that bad...