Nathan Cleverly: record, next fight and profile →
WBA regular light heavyweight champ Nathan Cleverly´s defence against Swede Erik Skoglund is still lingering. Under Swedish legislation a promoter must apply for longer distances than 12 minutes 60 days in advance and Sauerland Promotion did so with May 17 in Nykoping as the date. But the deal with Cleverly or Matchroom (or both) was never made.
According to Vadmin Kornilov, manager of WBA interim-light heavyweight titlist Dmitry Bivol (10-0, 8 KOs), they are going to speak with the World Boxing Association next week to discuss the mandatory fight with WBA "regular" champion Nathan Cleverly (30-3, 16 KOs).
Last night, WBA interim-light heavyweight titlist Dmitry Bivol made a big statement when he knocked down Samuel Clarkson three times en route to a fourth-round TKO in the main event of a Showtime televised card from MGM National Harbor in Maryland. Bivol (10-0, 8 KOs) is the mandatory challenger to WBA "regular" champion Nathan Cleverly and he wants that shot as soon as possible.
EBU light heavyweight champ Robert Stieglitz (50-5-2) has a mandatory challenger in Swede Erik Skoglund (26-0) and the EBU have set April 11 as deadline for agreement or purse bids. However, it appears that both have alternative plans.
The predictions continue to pour in for tomorrow night's highly anticipated fight between IBF/WBO/WBA light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev (30-0, 26KOs) and undefeated Olympic gold medal winner Andre Ward (30-0, 15KOs).
Welsh fighter Nathan Cleverly (30-3, 16 KOs) is picking Sergey Kovalev to win a close twelve round decision over Andre Ward on Saturday night. Kovalev (30-0-1, 26 KOs) will defend his WBA 'super', WBO and IBF world titles against Ward (30-0, 15 KOs) at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Juergen Braehmer (48-3, 35 KOs) says he will be ready to rematch Nathan Cleverly (30-3, 16 KOs) in early 2017 following a positive diagnosis on his injured right arm.
Well, that was fun while it lasted. It’s a word that describes a lot of what we’ve seen at light heavyweight in the last few years. While it doesn’t have the superstar drawing power of other classes, light heavyweight rarely gets the credit it should for a slate of fun fights.
Eddie Hearn, who promotes Nathan Cleverly, believes his fighter was well on his way to knocking out Juergen Braehmer on Saturday night. He saw Cleverly slowly chopping the champion down and felt Braehmer was looking to get out of there.
Germany's Juergen Braehmer has vowed to win back the WBA light-heavyweight belt he lost to Britain's Nathan Cleverly after retiring from their world-title bout with injury.