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Peter Fury, uncle and trainer of WBO/IBO/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, saw impressed by last Saturday's performance from unbeaten Charles Martin, who captured the vacant IBF belt with a third round TKO of Czar Glazkov at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
WBA/IBO/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury believes the International Boxing Federation is making deliberate maneuvers to ensure their world title remains in the United States.
Totowa, NJ: The radiology report is in and it appears that heavyweight contender Vyacheslav "Czar" Glazkov suffered a more severe knee injury than originally believed in his bout with Charles Martin on Saturday night.
Newly crowned IBF heavyweight champion Charles Martin will have a year to make a mandatory defense. Charles picked up the vacant title last Saturday night in Brooklyn. He stopped Czar Glazkov in three rounds. Tyson Fury captured the title when he upset Wladimir Klitshcko with a twelve round unanimous decision last November in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Tyson Fury had already shown before that he knows how to drive interest in a fight - and he showed that again this past Saturday by getting into the ring and confronting Deontay Wilder after Wilder’s win over Artur Szpilka.
Heavyweight contender Vyacheslav "Czar" Glazkov (21-1-1, 13KOs) is very disappointed after suffering his first defeat in a freak accident this past Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Glazkov faced Charles Martin (23-0-1, 21KOs) for the vacant IBF heavyweight championship.
After tasting defeat on Saturday night, Polish heavyweight contender Artur Szpilka (20-2, 15 KOs) is already looking ahead and seems to be in good spirits.
Dereck Chisora got Charles Martin's attention. And he's hoping that getting Martin’s attention will get him a shot at Martin’s world title. The former contender and one-time title challenger got ahold of a microphone during the post-fight press conference following Martin's title win over Vyacheslav Glazkov this past Saturday in Brooklyn. But while Martin was talking about hopefully having unification fights with Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder someday soon, Chisora felt Martin should take him on first.
New Zealand heavyweight boxer Joseph Parker is sure he is on the right path to a world title after watching American Charles Martin claim the vacant IBF belt in New York on Sunday.
Boxing promoters and managers tend to have high hopes for most of the fighters they sign. Not all of those dreams become reality, but occasionally they do. And Leon Margules of Warriors Boxing says that he knew the day would come that Charles Martin would have a heavyweight title around his waist.