Former two-weight world champion Badoo "The Ripper" Jack (27-3-3, 16 KOs), who competes in the cruiserweight division, won a split decision over the previously undefeated Richard "Popeye the Sailor" Rivera (21-1, 16 KOs) . Rivera was more active and Jack was throwing more clean shots. The eighth round lasted more than four minutes, and in that extra minute, Jack inflicted the most damage on his opponent. Judges scores: 96-94, 96-94 to Jack, 96-94 to Rivera.
Mairis Briedis (26-1, 20 KOs) and Yunier Dorticos (24-1, 22 KOs) met for the first time face to face immediately after their victorious fights in Riga. Briedis and Dorticos this autumn will have to fight for Mohammed Ali Trophy and two championship cruiserweight belts.
In one of the main events of the boxing evening in Riga in the semifinals of the World Boxing Super Series Cuban Yunier Dorticos after quite monotonous and one-sided bout scored a spectacular knockout win by a single-punch knockout in the eleventh round over previously undefeated Andrew Tabiti of the US.
A live webcast of the boxing evening from Riga, in the main event of which there will be two semi-finals of the second season of the World Boxing Super Series in the cruiserweight division. In one of them Mairis Briedis will face Krzysztof Glowacki, in the other Andrew Tabiti will fight Yuniel Dorticos.
Mairis Briedis (25-1, 18 KOs), Krzysztof Głowacki (33-1, 19 KOs), Yunier Dorticos (23-1, 21 KOs) and Andrew Tabiti (17-0, 13 KOs) successfully made the cruiserweight limit on official weigh-in ceremony before their fights in Riga, Latvia.