He’s apparently recovering from surgery and will use this bout as one of his two rehab bouts before he weekend out a match with Chisora or Parker
Erislandy Savon beat Deivis Juliovia(COL) 5:0 soreline to win gold at heavyweight in Central American and Caribbean Games Jose Larduet beat German Heredia(MEX) via TKO 2 to win gold at super-heavyweight in Central American and Caribbean Games
Kovalev is set to rematch Eleider Alvarez in December in Montreal in rather quick comeback after such devastating loss. Bivol is set for the under card. Oscar Rivas is set for the same card as well.
Hasim Rahman jr back on August 19th. He will face Raymond Ochieng. Let's see how he comes trough heavy handed Ochieng.
So, from what I understand Fres Oquendo/Charr is still going to happen and winner will have right hold voluntary defense but after that the winner will have to face mandatory from Bryan/Flores pair winner.
So, Lebedev will fight someone from WBA Top 15 next. I think fight with Merhy would be decent fight. I think Lebdev will fight him next. Previously Lebedev's camp has had talks with Isa Akarbiev, Vlasov, Masternak and Arslan for his comeback fight but failed to agree the financial side, so that leads me to think that he will fight Merhy next.