Light Heavyweight thread.

Finally!


According to World Boxing Council President Mauricio Sulaiman, his organization is investigating the ongoing situation with WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson and his lack of mandatory defenses.

At the moment, Eleider Alvarez has been the mandatory challenger, for two years, to Stevenson's title.

Stevenson (29-1, 24 KOs) and Alvarez (23-0, 11 KOs) are both advised by Al Haymon and promoted by Yvon Michel of GYM - but for one reason or another a deal has never come together for them to fight each other.

Because of the circumstances, the WBC has taken a lot of heat from the media and fans, and Sulaiman has finally responded to the criticism.

"We are addressing this matter. It's not 4 years [since Stevenson made a mandatory] and Kovalev hurt the process as well but it's unacceptable to continue. WBC is ruling soon," stated Sulaiman.

Regarding Sulaiman's reference to Sergey Kovalev - several years ago the WBC made a very strange ruling where they ordered Stevenson to fight Kovalev - who at the time was the rival champion of three other sanctioning bodies [WBO, WBA, IBF].

Besides allowing a rival champion to skip everyone in their own top ten, the situation created by the WBC was nothing more than a waste of time as the teams for Kovalev and Stevenson were never able to reach an agreement.

When the WBC ordered a purse bid, Kovalev's side - who pushed to become Stevenson's mandatory - withdrew from the process over concerns that Stevenson's team would win and take the fight to Showtime - which was a big issue with Kovalev, who at the time was negotiating a new exclusive deal with rival network HBO.

Source: box-scene

 

Gvozdyk back on February 15

 

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The WBC have found a magic solution to Stevenson's lack of madatories isue, haha.

In the coming months, the fans have to watch the tournament for the title of WBC heavyweight heavyweight champion, which is held by Adonis Stevenson (29-1, 24 KO). A 40-year-old Canadian at the turn of January and February is to cross gloves with Badou Jack (22-1-2, 13 KO).

On February 16, Oleksandr Gwozdyk (14-0, 12 KO) against Eleader Alvarez (23-0, 11 KO) is due to fight. Theoretically, Alvarez, as the official pretender to the WBC belt, should be another opponent of Stevenson, but the promotion of Gwozdyka Bob Arum, that the WBC federation will probably accept such a solution.

The winners of these two fights are to cross the gloves together at the latest by the end of June next year.

http://www.ringpolska.pl/163-boks-z...niej-o-pas-wbc-stevenson-jack-gwozdyk-alvarez

P.S. Poor Alvarez will never get the title shot....

 

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The opponent of undefeated Kazakhstan boxer Ali Akhmedov has decided on the evening of martial arts, the main event of which will be the fight of Firuza Sharipova on December 30 in Almaty, the press service of the Kazakh athlete informs. They became the 28-year-old boxer from Azerbaijan Ismat Einullayev.

"The rival of our Ali is Ismat Eynullayev from Azerbaijan, who is 28. He had 14 fights, having won 12 victories with two defeats, Ismat used to compete in the first middleweight, but the young guy is growing and now he is lifting boxing at light heavyweight. We did not make out this boxer very carefully, here we need to go out and win. "Later Akhmedov plans to sign an agreement with HBO, after which our boxer will have rivals of a more serious level," the Kazakh coach Sagatbek Musahanov said.

Recall that Ali Ahmedov made his debut in the profile in May 2016 and held ten fights, winning all wins. Six of them Ahmedov managed to finish ahead of schedule. In the last battle, the 22-year-old Kazakhstani prospect defeated the American American Deshon Webster on December 8, 2017 and won the titles of NABF Junior and WBC Youth at light heavyweight.

In the main battle of the evening, Firuza Sharipova will fight with Belgian Jamilla Gontaruk for the IBO World Champion title and WBC Silver in the second featherweight title. In case of victory Kazakhstan athlete.

 

Kovalev's career looks like on the last legs. Kovalev's chin looked vulnerable in his last fight. I think his chin is cracked. Gvozdyk, Bivol or Beterbiev will finish what is left of Kovalev's chin....