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“I think I made a statement," said Iglesias following Thursday's win. "If he [Alvarez] doesn’t want to fight with me, it’s not because I don’t give a good show. It’s because he’s scared."
Osleys Iglesias knocked Vladimir Shishkin’s head back with a left hand in the eighth round and followed up with a flurry for an eighth-round knockout Thursday in Montreal.
Osleys Iglesias and Vladimir Shishkin both came in under the super middleweight limit Wednesday, a day before their IBF title eliminator in Montreal.
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Dangerous Cuban super middleweight Osleys Iglesias will fight Vladimir Shishkin in an IBF eliminator on September 4 in Montreal, Canada.
Super middleweight contender Osleys Iglesias, from Cuba, now looks likely to face Russia's Vladimir Shishkin in an IBF eliminator, according to Camille Estephan, Iglesias' promoter
The effort to line up an IBF mandatory challenger for the Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez-William Scull winner continues to hit roadblocks.
William Scull has been ordered to fight the winner of Diego Pacheco-Christian Mbilli, presuming they agree to fight, and then Vladimir Shishkin.
Dmitry Salita is standing firmly behind his fighter, the super middleweight Vladimir Shishkin, after the 33 year old suffered a controversial unanimous decision loss to William Scull in Germany
Reports about an immediate rematch being ordered by the IBF between the newly-crowned super middleweight champion William Scull and Vladimir Shishkin are inaccurate, according to the Agon Sports promoter Ingo Volckmann