Cruiserweight and Heavyweight thread.

Fight Kosobutsky - Gvenetadze was designed for six rounds, but the Georgian, who had time to go down, refused to continue after the first round. The official result of the battle is the victory of the Kazakh boxer by technical knockout.

For the 29-year-old Kosobutsky this victory was the sixth in the six previous battles. In the pro, he made his debut in September 2017. Prior to Kiev, the Kazakh acted four times in Minsk, Belarus, and one more time in Moscow.

Defeat in the last battle was for the 27-year-old Gvenetadze eighth, and in seven cases he lost ahead of schedule. Prior to Ukraine, Georgians fought three times in Belgium, twice in Germany, and even once in Romania and Sweden.

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"Obviously Canelo-Golovkin was announced and it's only 10 or 11 weeks to September 15.

"Because of how long they've [Wilder's team] taken to come back, September's out. It doesn't work for US TV. It doesn't work in a build-up sense either.

"We're looking now -- if we do Wilder -- for more like October, November.

"Josh wants to do this fight at Wembley, we all do. But we can't do the fight in Wembley if it's not in September. Now we're looking at Cardiff. Now we've got to go back to them, go through the dates etc.

"There's rematch provisions in there. If Wilder becomes the A side, we have no problem going to America. But Josh just felt this fight should go to the UK.

"I'm glad the fight will happen in the UK when it does."

Despite the long process, Hearn remains adamant that the fight does eventually get made.

"The Wilder fight is 100 percent happening," he added. "The max you're going to have to wait is seven or eight months. But hopefully you might have to wait three or four months. I'm almost certain this gets signed.

"We are under pressure time wise so I'm hoping they come back in good time on the contract because if they are going to mess around, and it's not going to get done, we'll jump in and fight Povetkin in September.

"We can sign for Wilder now for December or for February, no problem. But I'm not going to wait until July or August and still not have a fight scheduled."

Joshua's last outing was a point's victory over Joseph Parker, while Wilder beat Luis Ortiz also earlier this year.

 

Milas/Jonshon:

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And here is his fight past weekend:

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