Former undisputed heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis admitted that he was waiting for a fight between Deontay Wilder and Anthony Joshua.
WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol commented on the defense of his belt by knockout of the Cuban Sullivan Barrera at Madison Square Garden in New York.
WBA light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol has not yet planned the fight against Sergey Kovalev and Artur Beterbiev. This was announced by the head of the company "World of Boxing" Andrey Ryabinsky.
Cuban Luis Ortiz commented on his defeat to WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder. According to Ortiz, he was very close to victory and was leading on points before the 10th round, but then Wilder sent him to a knockout.
According to the CompuBox statistics, heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder had to endure certain difficulties in order to write down his 39th KO victory with three knockdowns in the course in the battle against Luis Ortiz, and defended his belt.
According to official scorecards of the judges, world heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder was in the lead on all three cards with the same score of 85-84 at the time of stoppage in the tenth round of his bout against Luis Ortiz while the Cuban was supposed to take the opening rounds of this meeting, and the seventh round the judges gave the Cuban with a score of 10-8 even without falling. Wilder-Ortiz fight took place on March 3 in Brooklyn, at the arena of Barclays Center.
World light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev (32-2-1, 28 KOs) of Russia scored a TKO victory in the seventh round over his compatriot Igor Mikhalkin (21-2, 9 KOs), successfully defending his title in the main event of the evening at arena of Madison Square Garden in New York.
World heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (40-0, 39 KOs) successfully defended his title with a spectacular KO victory in the 10th round over the previously undefeated Cuban southpaw Luis Ortiz (28-1, 24 KOs) in the main event of the evening at the arena of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
The world light heavyweight champion Dmitry Bivol (13-0, 11 KOs) scored a TKO victory in the final, twelfth round, over the Cuban Sullivan Barrera (21-2, 14 KOs) on the undercard of the boxing evening at Madison Square Garden in New York.
In the main event of the evening in his native Sheffield, former welterweight champion Kell Brook (37-2, 26 KOs) scored a KO victory in the second round over Sergey Rabchenko (29-3, 22 KOs). Brook managed to land the precise right uppercut exactly on the jaw, which remarkably wobbled Rabchenko, but he was able to stay on his feet. In the very next exchange, Brook landed to this right hook to the temple, from which Rabchenko dropped on the floor. Sergey was climbin too hard for the referee to allow the fight to continue. The time was 1:27.
