WBA lightweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko said that he had not yet watched the fights of his next opponent, José Pedraza. Lomachenko will meet Pedraza on December 8 in New York. “This will be my first unification bout, and I cannot wait for it. After the fight with Pedraza, many doors will be open.”
Ukrainian middleweight Ievgen Khytrov (17-1, 14 KOs) completed his participation in the boxing reality show “The Contender”, which is held on EPIX. In the framework of the program, 16 middleweights participate in 5-round fights under the Olympic system and compete for a cash reward of $250 thousand.
WBA lightweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko (11-1, 9 KOs) does not believe that Khabib Nurmagomedov (27-0) and Floyd Mayweather Jr (50-0, 27 KOs) meeting will ever take place.
Ukrainian middleweight Sergey Derevyanchenko (12-0, 10 KOs), who will fight Daniel Jacobs (34-2, 29 KOs) for the vacant IBF belt on October 27, says that he expect 12 hard rounds in the upcoming fight.
Demetrius Andrade (26-0, 16 KOs) scored a unanimous decision over the previous unbeaten Walter Kautondokwa (17-1, 16 KOs) and won the vacant WBO middleweight title. After the final bell of the boxing evening in Boston, the judges counted 119-105 and twice 120-104 in favor of the American.
Ryota Murata (14-2, 11 KO) quite unexpectedly lost to Rob Brant (24-1, 16 KOs) by unanimous decision and lost his regular WBA middleweight title at the boxing evening Las Vegas. At the end of twelve rounds, the judges counted 118-110 and twice 119-109 in favor of Brant.
Former cruiserweight champion Yuniel Dorticos (23-1, 21 KO) scored a unanimous decision over Mateusz Masternak (41-5, 28 KOs) in one of the main events of the evening in Orlando, USA, and went to the semifinals of World Boxing Super Series, where he will meet Andrew Tabiti, who over the past weekend in Yekaterinburg, Russia defeated Ruslan Fayfer on points. The scores were 116-112 and twice 115-113 in favor of the Cuban.
WBA lightweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko said that he did not like the provocative behavior of the former UFC champion in two divisions Conor MacGregor before his last fight. At the same time, the Ukrainian noted that it was difficult for immigrants from Ukraine and Russia to take part in the promotion of fights due to poor knowledge of English.
A live broadcast of the boxing evening from Las Vegas, in the main event of which WBA middleweight champion Ryota Murata (14-0, 11 KOs) will defend his title against Rob Brunt (23-1, 16 KOs). In case of victory, at the beginning of the next year, Murat may fight in Japan against Gennady Golovkin.
A live broadcast of the boxing evening from Boston, in the main event of which Demetrius Andrade (25-0, 16 KOs) and Walter Kautondokwa (17-0, 16 KOs) will challenge the vacant WBO middleweight title.
