In the main event of the evening in Baku, Azerbaijan, IBO cruiserweight champion Kevin Lerena (21-1, 9 KOs) of South Africa won the unanimous decision over the Ukrainian Roman Golovashchenko (19-2, 17 KOs). The scores were 115-112, 115-112, 116-111. Golovashchenko was down in the fifth round.
On June 2 in Rzeszow, Poland, Ukrainian middleweight Fedir Cherkashyn (10-0, 7 KOs) scored another TKO victory in the second round over Ayoub Nefzi (26-11-2, 5 KOs) from Tunisia, who live in Belgium. At the end of the first round, Cherkashyn was able to send his opponent to the canvas with a body punch. Nefzi was saved by the bell, but he did not recover during a break and the first hits of the Ukrainian to the body forced Nefzi to kneel way to the end of the referee count.
The fight between Alexander Povetkin and Anthony Joshua may happen in England this fall, Povetkin says. Povetkin is the official contender for the WBA title, which is owned by Joshua. The WBA sanctioned a fight between them and gave the teams 30 days to negotiate. However, Joshua himself said that he intended to fight against Deontey Wilder.
Tom Loeffler, the promoter of the WBA, WBC, IBF and IBO middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (38-0-1, 34 KOs), stressed that the Kazakh team is ready to start organizing a fight against the Ukrainian challenger for the IBF belt Sergey Derevyanchenko (12 -0, 10 KOs).
WBO lightweight champion Raymundo Beltran (35-7-1, 21 KOs) hopes to enter the ring with WBC belt holder Mikey Garcia (38-0, 30 KOs) while Vasyl Lomachenko (11-1, 9 KOs) is recovering from the surgery on his shoulder.
WBA lightweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko successfully underwent surgery on his right shoulder, injured in the fight with Jorge Linares.
Before his last fight in March, world heavyweight champion Deontey Wilder showed 214 pounds on weigh-in, the lowest weight in the professional career of the American since his professional debut when he weighed 207 pounds. In his recent video in one of the social networks, Wilder unexpectedly touched on the topic of transition to the cruiserweights.
Abel Sanchez, the current coach of the WBA Super and IBF cruiserweight title holder Murat Gassiev, said that the final of the World Boxing Super Series (WBSS) tournament with WBO and WBC Champion Alexander Usyk is scheduled for July 21.
Tyson Fury will resume his career on June 9 in Manchester. He will face the 39-year-old Albanian Sefer Seferi. Fury invited the US president Donald Trump to his fight.
According to Bob Arum, the promoter of the lightweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko, the Ukrainian on May 12 in a duel against Jorge Linares torn the labrum of the right shoulder and on Wednesday in Los Angeles will undergo an arthroscopic surgery. Lomachenko himself claimed that he was injured in the second round, and his shoulder bothered him until the end of the fight.
