WBA Light Heavyweight Champion Dmitry Bivol (19-0, 11 KOs) scored a convincing unanimous decision victory over Umar Salamov (26-2, 19 KOs) in one of the main battles on Saturday evening at the Uralets arena in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Bivol was in control of the situation all the time. The scores were 119-109, 118-109 and 118-110. This victory was Bivol's sixth consecutive point victory.
On April 25 in Los Angeles there will be the battle for the WBO world championship belt in the welterweight division between Patrick Teixeira (31-1, 22 KOs) and Brian Castano (16-0-1, 12 KOs). The bout will be shown by DAZN platform.
The following year Terence Crawford (36-0, 27 KOs) could get a chance to win a championship belt in his fourth weight category. Top Rank plans to organize a fight for the 32-year-old against the WBO junior middleweight champion Patrick Teixeira (31-1, 22 KOs).