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Ivan Kirpa, trainer of Olympic gold medal winner and former WBA heavyweight champion Alexander Povetkin, is already studying the recent fights of WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder.
This past Friday - Andrei Ryabinsky, promoter for Olympic gold medal winner and former WBA champion Alexander Povetkin (30-1, 22KOs), submitted the winner purse bid to secure the promotional rights for the mandatory fight against WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (36-0, 35KOs).
Andrei Ryabinsky, promoter for Olympic gold medal winner and former WBA champion Alexander Povetkin (30-1, 22KOs), says WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (36-0, 35KOs) could very well have to travel to Russia for his mandatory defense.
The team behind former super middleweight champion Fedor Chudinov are planning to have his gloves examined from this past Saturday's twelve round majority decision loss to Felix Sturm in Germany.
As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, Olympic gold medal winner and former champion Alexander Povetkin confirmed that no agreement has been reached as of yet for a mandatory title shot against World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder.
Russian promotional firm Patriot, who handle former world champion Fedor Chudinov, are filing an official protest over the Saturday's twelve round decision loss to Felix Sturm in Germany.
World Boxing Organization (WBO), World Boxing Association (WBA) and International Boxing Federation (IBF) light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev is still hungry to capture more gold.
Promoter Andrei Ryabinsky has confirmed that Moscow will indeed be the location for the cruiserweight unification between WBA world champion Denis Lebedev (28-2, 21 KOs) and IBF champion Argentine Victor Emilio Ramirez (22-2-1, 17 KOs). The fight will take place on April 30th.
As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, Olympic gold medal winner and former champion Alexander Povetkin confirmed that no agreement has been reached as of yet for a mandatory title shot against World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder.
A few days ago, BoxingScene.com's Steve Kim first reported that a fight between former champions Miguel Cotto (40-5, 33KOs) and Ruslan Provodnikov (25-4, 18KOs) was discussed by Roc Nation Sports and Banner Promotions. The fight was being targeted for June 18th at the Barclay Center in Brooklyn, New York. The fight would happen around the welterweight limit of 147-pounds.