Light Heavyweight thread.

If Degale does what he said and follows Jack up to light heavyweight than he is poised for the knockout loss.

 

Badou Jack has moved up to the light heavyweight division.Targets fight with Stevenson in April.

 

I think Smith will have the first crack at Stevenson and I think Smith will beat him.

 

Imagine Smith/Beterbiev in New York and winner would face Jack that would be nice

 

Fights for January.

21.Fanlong Meng(9/0)/Gasan Gasanov for the WBO Oriental light heavyweight title.

Fights for February.

4.Ryno Liebenberg/Enrico Koelling

10.Bilal Laggoune/Doudou Ngumbu for the WBC Francophone light heavyweight title

18.Steven Ward/TBA

18.Marcus Browne/Thomas Williams Jr

24.Eleider Alvarez/Lucian Bute

 

Purse bids for Beterbiev/Barrera clash on 2 February

 

Dmitry Bivol/Robert Berridge for the WBA interim title on 23 February in Russia.Heavyweight Sergey Kuzmin will be on the undercard.

 

Dmitry CHUDINOV/Zoltan Papp on 4 February

 

Interview with Dmitry Bivol:

- By training, you started back in the past year. Tell us what are you working now?
- I started training three weeks after the last in Yekaterinburg the last match. Then I went in the Elbrus region, in Terskol, where he was a good three-week collection of RPT. We have laid a good foundation for the whole year and for the coming fight. Then we passed the New Year holidays, and for 4 January, we resumed training. This week we started sparring. Since Monday I have an active sparring.

- How now feels traumatised in combat with Mahteenko hand?
- Thank God, everything is fine with the hand, the injury took place. I beat, good sparring and the hand is not worried. We have now more focus on hands, upload them to do special exercises.

- The press has already announced that on February 23 and you will fight in Perm with New Zealander Robert Berridge. Can you confirm this information?
- To be honest, I personally still no one said that I was boxing on February 23 in Perm and with this opponent. I asked my manager Vadim Kornilov, and he asked me to wait a few days before the official announcement. In the near future, the place, the fight and the opponent will be known.

- In any case, you are planning to fight at the end of February?
- Of course. We want to fight or February of 23 or a week later. With Vadim, we constantly communicate and are considering options for a fight in Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Tagil, and as it turned out, also in the city of Perm. I do not matter the place of battle. With regard to the title to rival the press, I have an idea about this boxer and I will be glad if my fight with him will take place, but there are nuances in his organisation.

- Managed to explore Berridge? How do you characterise his style?
- Carefully examine it, I did not, but I saw on television from his fight with Elyder Alvarez. In principle, a strong opponent, which has strengths and weaknesses, but to me, it is too tough. I'm ready for this fight.

- Before the beginning of the year, you have discussed with the leadership of the "World of Boxing" their plans. Can you tell us more about them?
- One of the topics of dialogue was how sees our progress head of the promotion company Andrey M. Ryabinsky. He said he would give me four fights this year. Not the fact that it will turn out, but we will strive to carry out a four-fight. Also, me and my coach were a request to increase the quality of our opposition. For it is also a positive response was given.

- Would you like to spend before fees and fights overseas?
- Yes, I have plans for the promotion and Sergei Kuzmin abroad in the US or elsewhere were also discussed. We agree with our guidance that training camps and fights in America would have been helpful.

http://allboxing.ru/news/20170130-1...esti-boy-za-polnocennyy-titul-wba-v-etom-godu

 

http://www.fightnews.com/Boxing/laggoune-defends-wbc-francophone-ngumbu-392130

 

Beterbiev/Barrera purse bid was won by Yvon Michel with 251 k dollars.

 

http://www.fightnews.com/Boxing/laggoune-ngumbu-make-weight-wbc-francophone-fight-393099

 

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