Viktor Postol: record, next fight and profile →
Junior welterweight contender Amir "The Young Master" Imam (18-0, 15KOs) is one fight away from a world title opportunity. The WBC has ordered newly crowned WBC champion Viktor "The Iceman" Postol (28-0, 12KOs) to make a mandatory defense against Imam.
Junior welterweight contender Amir "The Young Master" Imam (18-0, 15KOs) is possibly one fight away from a world title opportunity. The World Boxing Council has already ordered newly crowned WBC champion Viktor "The Iceman" Postol (28-0, 12KOs) to make a mandatory defense against Imam.
When asked about potential opponents, Terence Crawford mentioned Viktor Postol’s name second, right after Manny Pacquiao. “It’d be good,” Crawford told BoxingScene.com regarding a fight against Postol. “It’d be for The Ring magazine belt, the lineal title.” Postol was about a 3-1 underdog entering his fight against Argentine power puncher Lucas Matthysse, but the unbeaten Ukrainian out-boxed and dropped him, before eventually making Matthysse quit on one knee in the 10th round Oct. 3 at StubHub Center in Carson, Calif.
Carson, California- Viktor Postol (28-0, 12KOs) was not a big underdog going into his fight with Lucas Matthysse last Saturday night, but he wasn't the favorite either. When he made Matthysse take a knee and get counted out in the tenth round, that surprised a lot of people. The win gave Postol the WBC junior welterweight championship.
Carson, California - In what was a head turning upset this past weekend, as Freddie Roach’s pupil Viktor Postol (28-0, 12KOs) stopped Lucas Matthysse with a surprise knockout ending to capture the vacant WBC 140-pound title. Matthysse took a big right hand in the tenth and went down. Fearing a possible eye injury, he remained down on a knee as the referee counted him out.
Carson, California-HBO analyst has called many fights at the StubHub Center and isn’t at all surprised when something special happens in the arena. This past weekend, boxing witnessed Viktor Postol midly upsetting Lucas Matthysse but the manner of making him quit was what was special. There’s just something of StubHub and boxing that is special says Kellerman.
Cruiserweight: Reports are mixed as to whether or not World Champion Yoan Pablo Hernandez has retired. If his retirement is made official, he will be removed from the top ten. Victor Ramirez holds his spot after a draw against Ovil McKenzie. Consideration was given to rating McKenzie but for now he remains outside the top ten. Jr. Welterweight: Viktor Postol vaults to the top with a knockout of Lucas Matthysse. Matthysse falls to third, just ahead of Ruslan Provodnikov whom he beat his last fight before Postol. Adrien Broner moves ahead of Jessie Vargas off a clear win, if questionable stoppage.
The World Boxing Council have confirmed that unbeaten junior welterweight contender Amir Imam (18-0, 15KOs) is the next fighter in line for a mandatory shot at newly crowned WBC junior welterweight champion Viktor Postol (28-0, 12 KO). This past Saturday night Postol registered an unexpected tenth round knockout of big favorite, Lucas Matthysse, at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.
Two junior welterweight world champions were crowned on Saturday night. In an HBO televised main event, Viktor "Iceman" Postol (28-0, 12 KOs) captured the vacant WBC junior welterweight crown by knocking out heavily favored Lucas Matthysse (37-4, 34 KOs) in the tenth round at the StubHub Center in Carson, California.
Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach is very proud of his new star, newly crowned WBC junior welterweight champion Viktor Postol (28-0, 12KOs), who on Saturday night at the StubHub Center in Carson, California, scored a shocking upset with a tenth-round stoppage of Lucas Matthysse to capture the vacant title.