Former cruiserweight champion Murat Gassiev recalled the defeat in the WBSS finals to Oleksandr Usyk and spoke about a possible rematch with the Ukrainian.
According to Oscar De La Hoya, promoter of the WBA and WBC middleweight champion Saul Alvarez, his client is serious about his rematch with Floyd Mayweather. De la Hoya believes that Floyd has over a billion reasons for this to happen.
In the main event of the evening in Brooklyn, the fight of Erislandy Lara (25-3-3, 14 KOs) and Brian Castano (15-0-1, 11 KOs) was declared a draw. After twelve rounds, the judges scored it 114-114, 115-113 in favor of the Argentine and 115-113 for the Cuban.
Cuban heavyweight Louis Ortiz (31-1, 26 KOs) scored a unanimous decision over Christian Hammer (24-5, 14 KOs) at the boxing evening in Brooklyn, New York. After ten rounds, the judges gave it in favor of the former title contender: 100-90 and 99-91 twice.
Ukrainian heavyweight Andriy Rudenko (32-4, 20 KOs) was not able to take away the EBU European title from Agit Kabayel (19-0, 13 KOs), the representative of Germany, losing by unanimous decision in the main event of the evening in Magdeburg. The scores were: 116-111, 117-110 and 119-108.
It seems that on May 18 there will be no fight between Oleksandr Usyk (16-0, 12 KOs) and Alexander Povetkin (34-2, 24 KOs). However, boxers are likely to perform within one evening in Chicago.
The live broadcast of the boxing evening from Magdeburg, Germany, in the main event of which the Ukrainian heavyweight Andriy Rudenko (32-3, 20 KOs) will try to take away the European (EBU) title from the undefeated Agit Kabayel (18-0, 13 KOs), the representative of Germany.
Live broadcast of the evening boxing from Brooklyn, in the main event of which WBA light middleweight champion Brian Castano will meet the former world champion Erislandy Lara. Also this evening will be an interesting 10-round heavyweight bout, in which Louis Ortiz will face Christian Hammer.
Michal Cieslak (18-0, 12 KO) passed the exam. The Pole showed a wise and balanced boxing in Legionow, Poland, forcing Youri Kayembre Kalenga (24-6, 17 KO) to surrender in the seventh round.
The official weighting procedure took place on the eve of a boxing evening in Brooklyn, in the main event of which WBA light middleweight champion Brian Castano will meet former world champion Erislandy Lara. The weight of Castano was 154 pounds, Lara was 153 pounds.
