Ben Davison, coach of Tyson Fury (27-0, 19 KOs) claims that his fighter could finish the fight against Francesco Pianeta by stoppage, but he did not get permission for it. In support of this, Fury published on Twitter a fragment of the record from the corner before the tenth round of the Saturday battle, in which Fury asks Davison: "Do I have to finish? Finish him now? ". To which he receives a negative answer.
In the coming weekend on August 25 in Glendale, Arizona WBO lightweight champion Ray Beltran (35-7-1, 21 KOs) will defend his title in a fight against former champion Jose Pedraza (24- 1, 12 KOs). The winner of this meeting on December 1 will have to fight in a unification battle with the WBA champion Vasyl Lomachenko.
Unified cruiserweight champion Alexander Usyk (15-0, 11 KOs) named his main task in the ring and explained who the national hero for him is: "For me it makes no difference who in front of me in the ring is. Is he a Russian, Ukrainian, German or American? This is boxing, not politics.”
Promoter Vladimir Khryunov told about the upcoming fight of Russian Denis Lebedev at the boxing evening in Chelyabinsk, Russia on September 7. Earlier it was reported that Lebedev would fight Khizni Altunkaya of Turkey.
Ryota Murata (14-1, 11 KOs) and Rob Brant (23-1, 16 KOs) teams finally reached an agreement on the fight for the "regular" WBA middleweight belt, belonging to the Japanese. The bout is scheduled for October 20 in Las Vegas.
Vadim Kornilov, manager of the WBA cruiserweight champion ‘in recess’ Denis Lebedev (30-2, 22 KOs) spoke about the desire of his fighter to go out in the ring against one of the finalists of the World boxing super series (WBSS) Alexander Usyk (15-0, 11 KOs) or Murut Gassiev (26-1, 19 KOs):
On September 7 in Chelyabinsk Denis Lebedev will meet Hizni Altunkaya, which occupies the ninth place in the ranking of the World Boxing Association (WBA). He is also the strongest cruiserweights in Turkey.
The Real Deal Boxing and Lee Baxter Promotions regret to announce that the Jose Sulaiman WBC World Invitational Tournament, scheduled to take place this Saturday, August 25th in Toronto, Canada, has been postponed due to visa issues.
“We were forced to make the very difficult decision today to postpone the event due to learning that, despite our best efforts, several of the tournament’s international fighters would not be granted visas to enter Canada.”, explained Eric Bentley, COO of The Real Deal Boxing.
“While we worked tirelessly to resolve the issue down to the last possible minute, and we could have made arrangements to move forward with revised tournament bouts, it was very important to us that the 4 semi-finalists, Van Heerden, Lawson, Solomon and Santana, not lose the opportunity they rightfully earned by winning in the quarter-finals due to issues out of their control.”
“We look forward to announcing the date and location of the rescheduled event in the coming weeks and we sincerely thank the boxing fans of Toronto for their support and their understanding of what was a necessary but very difficult decision for The Real Deal Boxing and our partners at Lee Baxter Promotions to make, especially considering the support the city has shown the event.”
The second season of the World Boxing Super Series (WBSS) will be held in the cruiserweights. The unofficial information that appeared in the media in the last few weeks was officially confirmed by the organizers of the tournament for the Muhammad Ali Trophy.
The lightweight champion Vasyl Lomachenko said that his farther is his main source of motivation.” In my childhood I was taught to set goals and to achieve them. Everyone who sets goals in life, whether it is sport, education or anything else, should achieve it. Without willpower, without purposefulness, the goal cannot be achieved,” Lomachenko said.
