Cruiserweight and Heavyweight thread.

Italian cruiserweight Fabio Turchi (14-0, 11 KOs), who is leaving his former Italian promoter to find a new home at OPI Since 82, is scheduled to fight on July 6 at Teatro Principe in Milan, northern Italy, likely facing journeyman brawler Yassine Habachi (5-10-4, 3 KOs) in a tune up bout. Habachi is basically a blown up light-heavyweight but he always comes to fight, although that can be just the proper feature the showcase the skills of a short-distance hitter like the 24-year-old Turchi. The new promotional move means that Turchi’s adventure in the United States may likely be over, talking the current state of his career.

 

The awaited clash between European cruiserweight champion Yves Ngabu (19-0, 14 KOs), am unbeaten puncher, and his challenger Noel Gevor (23-1, 10 KOs), a conservative rangy boxer from Germany, was forced to be pushed back to September with the contest no longer taking place on June 29, as Ngabu is momentarily unable to box.

 

Top Rank not interested in Bryant Jennings vs. Joe Joyce on Aug.18

”Schaefer is willing to match Joyce with former world title challenger Bryant Jennings, who needs an opponent for his Aug. 18 ESPN main event, but Top Rank has no interest,” Dan Rafael of ESPN.com. ”Hughie Fury, the reigning British champion, was ringside on Friday, and Joyce is interested in facing his countryman. Point is, Team Joyce wants a serious opponent. It’s just a matter of if they can pay such an opponent enough to be willing to fight Joyce.”

 

Jennings on his next opponent:

“The name I got isn’t in the top 10 or 15, but if this is what I’ve got to do then this is what I’ve got to do,” Jennings said to Boxingtalk.com about his August 18th opponent.

 

WBC orders Adonis Stevenson vs. Oleksandr Gvozdyk

 

Definitely not, Sean Turner will fight on July 21st bill.

 

Martin Bakole Ilunga will fight DL Jones live on Channel 5 on June 23rd.

 

Bryant Jennings back on August 18th, he will face another journeyman. He will fight some better name by the end of the year. He will likely fight 2 more times after his fight in August.

 

According to Finkel in an interview with World Boxing News, the contract came to them on Monday evening, although they expected him on Friday. Currently, the Wilder team is studying the conditions proposed by the promoter of British champion Eddie Hearn, and so far can not say anything about the timing of the signing of the contract for the fight.

 

"I'm sure one hundred percent that the contract will be signed within the next three to four weeks," Hearn said. "As I said, if Wilder quickly gives his consent, he and Joshua will almost certainly meet in the nearest match."

At the same time, Hearn reiterated that if the negotiations drag on, Joshua will first conduct mandatory protection in September against Alexander Povetkin. "I will not let Joshua go out against Wilder after a short eight-week gathering, because this fight is extremely important," the promoter said. - By this time he was going his entire professional career, and maybe his whole career in boxing. We are not going to fight in time that will not allow us to prepare the best ... Of course, Joshua wants a fight with Wilder. He wants to become an absolute champion, but if the matter drags on, if they delay, Joshua can say: well, let's continue negotiations with Wilder and sign the treaty, but at the end of September we'll fight with Povetkin. "

According to Hearn, the fight against Wilder is unlikely to be organized in September: the most likely date is October or November, but at this time it will not be possible to hold it at Wembley Stadium as planned. An alternative venue is the Principality Stadium in Wales, where Joshua spent his last two fights, but if the negotiations do not come to an end in the near future, the unification duel is likely to be postponed to the next year.

 

No official announcement yet, but the president of the Russian Boxing Federation, Umar Kremlev, has confirmed that WBC/WBO cruiserweight champion Oleksandr Usyk (14-0, 11 КО) and WBA/IBF champion Murat Gassiev (26-0, 19 КО) will contest the final leg of the Super World Series of Boxing July 21 in Moscow at the Olympic Stadium sports complex according to XSPORT.

Usyk and Gassiev were scheduled to fight on May 11 in Saudi Arabia, but the fight was postponed due to an injury suffered by Usyk.

 

Heavyweight Pezhman Seifkhani (9-0) goes for the RBO title November 10 in Orebro (Sweden). In the co-feature female super lightweight Patricia Berghult (10-0) goes for the same title. Opponents for both are to be announced.