WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder and Luis Ortiz will once again try to meet on March 3 in New York at the Barclays Center arena. His last fight last November against Bermane Stiverne Wilder also held at the Barclays arena, when he got a quick victory in the first round. Ortiz should have been on the Stiverne's place, but a few weeks before the battle the Cuban's doping test had a positive result on banned diuretics.
A judge of the municipal court sentenced WBC heavyweight champion Deonthey Wilder to 60 hours of public service for possession of marijuana in June last year. Wilder also received a 30-day suspended sentence and two years of conditional release.
According to Mexican media, the world middleweight champion on several versions Gennady Golovkin and Saul Alvarez agreed on the main points of their rematch, tentatively scheduled for May 5. This fight will take place in Las Vegas or New York. This time in the contract for the fight there is no point of the rematch, while it is likely that boxing fans will see their third fight. The meeting will be broadcasted on HBO.
On March 24 in London at the O2 arena Dillian Whyte and Lucas Brown will have a 12-round bout with silver WBC title at stake, owned by the British. Whyte is the official contender for the title, which belongs to Deontay Wilder, and in case of defeat he will lose his rights to challenge the title.
Two former world welterweight champion Victor Ortiz and Devon Alexander met for the first time on Wednesday at a press conference in El Paso, Texas, to discuss their fight, which will take place on the Premier Boxing Champions at FOX and FOX Deportes on Saturday, February 17, at the Arena of Don Haskins Center in El Paso.
January 20 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn on the undercard of Errol Spence Jr.'s fight against Lamont Peterson 30-year-old Ukrainian middleweight Sergiy Derevyanchenko (11-0, 9 KOs), who is fighting from Brooklyn, New York, will have his next fight. Derevyanchenko's opponent has not been determined yet. In his last fight on August 25 Sergiy stopped Tureano Johnson in the 12th round in a battle for the title of the official challenger for the title, which is currently owned by Gennady Golovkin.
The team of light heavyweight Eleider Alvarez refused to participate in the promotional bids for the fight against Oleksandr Gvozdyk, previously appointed for this Friday at WBC headquarters. Alvarez and Gvozdyk were about to fight for the vacant interim title and full-fledged champion Adonis Stevenson was to defend his title against Badou Jack.
Ukrainian amateur boxer Oleksandr Khyzhniak, who competes in 75 kg weight category and won the world championship gold in 2017, in an interview to Sport Express said that at the moment he is completely focused on the prospects of the Olympics 2020 and does not consider transition to pros.
Ukrainian middleweight Dmytro Mytrofanov on January 13 in Northlake, Illinois, near Chicago, will have a 8-round bout against American Marcus Willis (17-4-2, 4 KOs). The upcoming fight become the main event of the boxing evening from Natex Boxing Promotion, and it will be the second fight in Mytrofanov's career as a pro.
As reported by WBC, representatives of Oleksandr Gvozdyk and Eleider Alvarez can not yet agree on their fight and for the upcoming Friday, January 12, purse bids are appointed. Gvozdyk promoter is Top Rank, the affairs of Alvarez are engaged by promoter Yvon Michel and manager Al Haymon.
