Kevin Lerena vs Serhiy Radchenko WBC Bridgerweight championship the 1st May

The 1st May in South Africa Kevin Lerena 32 years old 30-3-0 (14 KOs) will defend his WBC World Belt in Bridgerweight against the ukrainian Serhiy Radchenko 37 years old 11-7-0 (5KOs) (the Ukrainian have the WBC Silver belt in Bridgerweight).



In undercard : Wlodarczyk vs Balski for the WBC Bridgerweight Interim Belt

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It's true it's the first time I see a interim belt in undercard of the true world belt !

For Radchenko it's definetely the chance of his life.

 

Because he have the WBC Silver he won by a big upset against the Serbian Andrej Pesic and for to be honest even if it's a journeyman he was very good against Szpilka & Egorov.


I will prefer a unification WBA / WBC : Muslim Gadzhimagomedov vs Kevin Lerena.

Lerena make a offer for Deontay Wilder also to challenge him this will be definetely more interesting.


Also a WBC defense against the winner of Wlodarczyk / Balski, I hope Diablo Wlodarczyk will win.

 

It will be good if Lerena get a stoppage victory over Radchenko because Cieslak, Egorov, Balski, Glowacki, Szpilka... can't do it in the past. The Ukrainian have a iron chin really!

 

No there is some worst challenger in history I remember well it's the Japanese Masaharu Kawakami (who trains at Tokuhon Shinto Boxing Gym during that time) 3 fights, 2 wins and 1 lose. He make a fight against Yoshiaki Kanda for a semi finals IBF and won but JBC (Japanese Comission of Boxing don't recognize IBF at that time) so he won just a exhibition on paper...

Then he have his chance one year later he was the Japanese Minimumweight champion, ranked number 2 by the IBF. He fought against the dangerous South Korean 19 years old Kyung-Yung Lee and lose by KO 2 for the inaugural IBF World Minimumweight belt.

Then Masaharu Kawakami fought 2 times after and lose the two times by Knockouts, he stops boxing and he return in Kickboxing and Karate Kyokoushin .

I think it's debatable because South Korea was very strong but is possibly the worst challenger in history.

 

Masaharu Kawakami have a record at the end of his career 32 fights in Boxing : 17 victories and 11 loses and 4 draws. He lost by unanimous decision against Hiroki Ioka the 08/07/1987 (92-100, 96-100, 94-100).

His last fight he lose by TKO 10 against Tomohiro Kiyuna for the Japanese Belt in Light Flyweight.

First Japanese Minimumweight champion in History and first world challenger for the IBF World Belt in Minimumweight in history.

 

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