Jay Deas, one of the managers and coaches of the WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, suggested that Anthony Joshua's side is doing everything to ensure that the fight between Wilder and Joshua does not take place.
According to promoter Eddie Hearn, the world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (21-0, 20 KOs) will fight next on September 22 against the mandatory challenger for one of his titles Alexander Povetkin (34-1, 24 KOs). Hearn offers Deonthey Wilder, negotiations with whom did not lead to a unification battle this year, to meet on April 13 at Wembley.
Abel Sanchez, the coach of the WBA Super, WBC and IBO middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin, called the condition under which his ward may change the weight category. "Marvin Hagler during almost the whole career boxed in the middleweights. It was his division, and no one asked him to rise higher. I think that for fighters of the Golovkin level, given the stage of their career, it is important to have a motivation. If it is not, it is not so important, how many potential rivals are in the super middleweights?
WBO Oriental lightweight champion Denys Berinchyk commented on his victory over Colombian Jose Luis Prieto and told why he stopped co-operating with coach Sergei Vatamanyuk. "I want to disclose my condition and fulfill the plan for the fight, since we work with the coach for 12-15 rounds and are set to go the full distance. But when you start to add from round to round, you make a small decline to roll out the last rounds - but that's it, stop. Vasyl Lomachenko also accelerates and leaves all the strength and energy for the last rounds. And today I had time to rest, I was going to increase the tempo at the end.
Former heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko rated the chances of Deonthey Wilder and Anthony Joshua in their possible fight: "Both fighters are incredible, and they are different in their own way. They have their trumps, but I think Joshua is a more complete fighter, although not as fast as Deontey.
WBC super featherweight champion Miguel Berchelt (34-1, 30 KOs) scored a TKO victory in the third round over the former world champion Victor Barros (41-6-1, 22 KOs) in the main event of the evening in Merida, Mexico. At the end of the second round Berchelt sent Barros to the floor with left hook, and again in the third round. The corner of Barros rose in the ring, signaling about the refusal to continue the fight. The time was 1:53.
2016 Olympic heavyweight champion Tony Yoka (5-0, 5 KOs) scored a tenth round stoppage over David Allen (13-4-2, 10 KOs) in the main event of the evening in Paris, France. Yoka dominated the course of the fight and the unanswered series of punches in the final, tenth round, forced the referee to stop the fight.
Former middleweight contender Martin Murray (37-4-1, 17 KOs) scored a unanimous decision over Roberto Garcia (41-4, 24 KOs) and took away his WBC silver title in the main event of the evening at O2 arena in London. It was a very dirty fight. In the second and ninth rounds referee Hector Afu deducted points from Garcia. The scores were: 116-111, 118-109 and 118-108.
In the main event of the evening in Glasgow, Scotland, local favorite Josh Taylor (13-0, 11 KOs) scored the most significant victory in his career to date, winning by unanimous decision over the former world champion Victor Postol (29-2, 12 KOs) from Ukraine. In the tenth round Postol was down after the left hook to the head. The scores were 118-110, 117-110 and 119-108.
In one of the main events of the evening in the Kiev Sports Palace, silver Olympic medalist Denys Berinchyk (9-0, 6 KOs) scored an early victory over Colombian Jose Luis Prieto (26-5, 17 KOs) after the latter refused to continue the fight after the fifth round.
