
Kerman Lejarraga To Face Michele Di Rocco Before Gavin Bout
As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, reigning EBU welterweight champ Kerman Lejarraga (25-0) will defend the title November 17 in Bilbao against Frankie Gavin.
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As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, reigning EBU welterweight champ Kerman Lejarraga (25-0) will defend the title November 17 in Bilbao against Frankie Gavin.

After breakthrough years of 2014 and 2015, the World of Boxing, Russia’s top promotional outfit, limited its activities for a number of reasons, favouring quality over quantity and spreading out over the world’s largest country at the same time. By doing so, WoB made it harder for a casual Moscow fan to observe boxing as it has largely shifted to the regions. However, almost five months since its last big card in the Russian capital, WoB makes its return by staging Russia’s largest boxing show on November 27 at Luzhniki Sports Arena. The card will feature almost all of the talent that WoB has, culminating in two twelve-rounders supported by a deep list of eight ten-rounders.

It was announced by promotional company World of Boxing, that former IBF and IBO light welterweight champion Eduard Troyanovsky will make his ring return on July 1 in Moscow, Russia, as a part of the card headlined by heavyweight contender Alexander Povetkin - who is scheduled for a collision versus Andrey Rudenko of Ukraine. Troyanovsky is set to face former world title challenger Michele Di Rocco of Italy.

Super welterweights Cedric Vitu (45-2) and Marcello Matano (17-2) clash in an IBF final eliminator on May 18 at the Cirque d´Hiver in Paris. The winner will become the mandatory challenger for current IBF champion Jarrett Hurd.

Glasgow, Scotland - Ricky Burns (40-5-1, 13KOs) became a three division world champion when he stopped Michele Di Rocco (40-2-1, 18KOs) in eight rounds to capture the vacant WBA junior welterweight world title.

Promoter Eddie Hearn has urged Ricky Burns fans to roar their man on to glory on Saturday night. The 33-year-old from Coatbridge takes on Michele Di Rocco for the vacant WBA super-lightweight title at Glasgow's SSE Hydro where victory would make him Scotland's first three-weight world champion.

Eddie Hearn has told Scottish boxing fans that they will see the best of Coatbridge's Ricky Burns when he meets Italy's Michele Di Rocco for the vacant WBA World light-welterweight title at Glasgow's SSE Hydro Arena on Saturday night.

Michele Di Rocco insists the hardest part of any fight is already completed as he prepares for his vacant WBA super-lightweight title battle with Ricky Burns. The Coatbridge fighter, 33, bids to become Scotland's first three-weight world champion at Glasgow's SSE Hydro on Saturday night.

Ricky Burns will make his fighting return to Glasgow on Saturday night but insists he does need to make up for his past disappointments on home soil.

Ricky Burns has told Michele Di Rocco to prepare for a red-hot reception in Glasgow when they meet for the vacant WBA World Super-Lightweight title at the SSE Hydro on Saturday May 28, live on Sky Sports.