Bob Arum, in an interview to talkSPORT, confirmed reports of the Daily Mail that Tyson Fury (30-0-1, 21 KOs) in December, instead of meeting Deontay Wilder (42-1-1, 41 KOs) in Las Vegas will have a voluntary defense of his WBC heavyweight belt in the UK.
The 2013 world amateur boxing champion Zhanibek Alimkhanuly (9-0, 5 KOs) knocks harder and harder on the professional boxing gates in the middleweight division. Yesterday, at the Top Rank boxing night in the Navarrete vs Villa undercard in Las Vegas, the Kazakh effectively dealt with the Argentinean Gonzalo Coria (16-4, 6 KOs), when he inflicted his first stoppage defeat in his career.
At the moment, there are no obstacles for a super lightweight unification fight between WBC and WBO champion Jose Ramirez (26-0, 17 KOs) and Josh Taylor (17-0, 13 KOs), the holder of WBA and IBF titles.
In the main event of the evening at the Equides Club arena in Kiev, the WBO international lightweight champion Denys Berinchyk (14-0, 8 KOs) stopped Viorel Simion (22-4, 9 KOs), thus defending his title. Simion hit the floor in the sixth and seventh rounds and didn't go out for the eighth.
On December 5 England may host a unification bout in the featherweight division between IBF champion Josh Warrington (30-0, 7 KOs) and Can Xu (18-2, 3 KOs), the holder of the WBA championship belt.
The fight of IBF and WBC world champion Errol Spence (26-0, 21 KOs) with the former two-weight champion Danny Garcia (35-2, 21 KOs) has been finally postponed to December 5. The fight will take place at the stadium in Arlington, Texas, where fans will be able to attend. Tickets will go on sale on October 14th.
Coach Eddie Reinoso is pleased with the first results of cooperation with his new fighter Andy Ruiz Jr. (33-2, 22 KOs). The famous coach, best known as the mentor of Saul Alvarez, promises success for the Mexican Destroyer.
Regardless of who wins the fight for the title of undisputed world lightweight champion on October 17, between Vasyl Lomachenko (14-1, 10 KOs) and Teofimo Lopez (15-0, 12 KOs), he will not be bound by a contract for rematch.
Denys Berinchyk, the WBO international lightweight champion, and his rival in the October 8 fight in Kiev, Viorel Simion, weighed in before their title fight. Denys was 133½ pounds, Viorel - 135 pounds. Tomorrow, in the Equides Club the rivals will have a ten-round fight with WBO International title owned by Denys at stake.
A press conference was held in New Zealand today to announce a fight of the former WBO World Champion Joseph Parker (27-2, 21 KOs) and his undefeated compatriot Junior Fa (19-0, 10 KOs). The fight will take place on December 11 in Auckland.
