Former world heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin (33-1, 23 KOs) in a one-sided but rather boring fight beat via unanimous decision Romanian Christian Hammer (22-5, 12 KOs). The scores were: 120-107, 120-108, 119-108.
A live broadcast of the boxing evening from Ekaterinburg, Russia, in the main event of which former world heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin will meet Christian Hammer. At stake in this meeting will be the opportunity in the future to meet WBA title holder Anthony Joshua.
The official weighing procedure took place on the eve of the boxing event in Brovary, in the main events of which Olympic silver medalist Denis Berinchyk will hold the first title fight in his career against Allan Valleppin, while Oleg Malinovsky will defend his WBO European title against David Berna.
Olympic silver medalist Denis Berinchyk and his rival in his first title fight Allan Wallespin from the Philippines held the first face off. It happened at the tournament on mixed martial arts WWFC 9, which was held on December 14 in the Kiev Sports Palace, Ukraine.
Three division world champion WBC lightweight belt holder 29-year-old Mikey Garcia (37-0, 30 KOs) will hold his next fight on February 10 in San Antonio against IBF super lightweight champion Sergei Lipinets (13-0, 10 KO) from Kazakhstan. In the event of victory, Garcia will win the championship belt in the fourth weight division. This fight will be broadcasted on the Showtime channel .
Christian Hammer, who on December 15 in Yekaterinburg, Russia, will be the opponent of former world heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin, said that without the help of doping the Russian does not have a chance of winning a battle with him.
WBO International and WBA Intercontinental title holder Alexander Povetkin (32-1, 23 KOs) and Christian Hammer (22-4, 12 KOs) passed the official weigh-in procedure on the eve of the boxing event in Yekaterinburg on December 15. Povetkin showed on the scales 101.15 kg, the weight of his rival Hammer was 116.3 kg.
Denis Berinchyk, his rival Allan Wallespin, as well as Oleg Malinovsky held a joint open training on the eve of their fights. Traditionally, the boxers started with a warm-up, shadow boxing, worked on their mitts, and also had exercises with a skipping rope and medicine balls.
Four-time world champion in two weight classes Mexican Orlando Salido on his return to Arizona rethought his fight with Miguel Roman and changed his mind about completing his career. The 37-year-old boxer said that he will return to the ring in 2018 and ready for new challenges.
Guillermo Rigondeaux's coach Pedro Diaz spoke in defense of his fighter after a flurry of criticism that fell on the Cuban because of his refusal to continue the fight against Vasily Lomachenko. The fight of these boxers took place on December 9 in New York and ended with the stoppage victory of the Ukrainian, when Rigondeaux refused to go out for the seventh round.
