Brian Hickerson, the new boyfriend of Hayden Panettiere exposed a picture in the company of an American actress and her friends. As it turned out, the friends of the former Klitschko’s bride arranged a surprise party for her a week before her birthday.
Undisputed cruiserweight champion Alexander Usyk (15-0, 11 KOs) and former cruiserweight champion Tony Bellew (30-2-1, 20 KOs) will meet in Kiev. Ukrainian promoter Alexander Krasyuk confirmed participation of the Ukrainian at the 56th WBC Congress, which will be held in Kiev from September 30 to October 7. In turn, the president of the World Boxing Council, Mauricio Suleiman, said that Tony Bellew agreed to fly to Kiev.
Next week the third weight category of the second season of the World Series Super Series Super Series will be announced. This was stated by Kalle Sauerland, one of the organizers of the project.
Gennady Golovkin (38-0-1, 34 KO) and Saul Alvarez (49-1-2, 34 KOs) passed the mandatory 30 days weigh-in according to WBC rules before their rematch on September 15 in Las Vegas. The fight will take place in the middleweight category, and both boxers are already close to the weight limit.
Olympic silver medalist Joe Joyce (5-0, 5 KOs) announced that he signed a contract with Al Haymon, manager and adviser of many stars of professional boxing. The 32-year-old Briton also recently began training with Abel Sanchez, the coach of Gennady Golovkin and Murat Gassiev among others.
Vitali Klitschko and Lennox Lewis in the forthcoming WBC congress in Kiev this fall will still enter the ring, but will compete not in boxing match, but in chess. "We will play chess in the ring," said 52-year-old Lewis in an interview to the Daily Mail. "We're too old to put on gloves again. It will be interesting for us to measure our minds but not our fists."
Hizni Altunkaya (30-2, 17 KOs) is the main candidate for a meeting with former cruiserweight champion Denis Lebedev (30-2, 22 KOs) who will return to the ring on September 7 in the boxing event in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
The fight between Kubrat Pulev and Hughie Fury at the boxing evening in Sofia on October 27 is officially confirmed by the promoters of both boxers. At stake is the title of the IBF official heavyweight challenger for the title, owned by Anthony Joshua. Promotional bids for this fight were scheduled for Thursday, but as a result of the agreement, they were canceled.
Ivan Kirpa, the coach of former world heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin (34-1, 24 KOs), said that he was pleased with the first stage of preparation of his ward, which was held in Kislovodsk, Russia. On September 22 at Wembley Arena in London, Povetkin will try to take away the titles from WBA, IBF and WBO champion Anthony Joshua (21-0, 20 KOs).
Vice-president of the National League of Professional Boxing of Ukraine Alina Shaternikova expressed the opinion that Alexander Usyk was very risky, agreeing to fight with Murat Gassiev in Moscow.
