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After Beterbiev defeated Radivoje Kalajdzic (24-1) by KO in May 2019, Top Rank set to work on a unification fight between Beterbiev and WBC and lineal light heavyweight champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk (17-0) for some time in Autumn 2019 on ESPN. The winner of Beterbiev vs. Gvozdyk would hold two of the four world titles at 175, and set up further ...
As professional boxing has four major sanctioning bodies (WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO) each with their own champions, the sport doesn't have a centralized ranking system.The rankings published by these organizations share the trait of not ranking the other organizations' champions, as each one of the sanctioning bodies expects their champion to frequently defend their title against their top-ranked ...
The World Boxing Council (WBC) was founded in Mexico City, Mexico, on February 14, 1963, to establish an international regulating body. [7] The WBC established many of today's safety measures in boxing, such as the standing eight count , [ 8 ] a limit of 12 rounds instead of 15, and additional weight divisions.
Beterbiev holds the WBC, WBO and IBF light heavyweight titles. Busta Rhymes, Missy Elliott, Ciara perform. The boxers aren’t the only ones parading into Kingdom Arena. Ciara, Busta Rhymes and ...
Artur Beterbiev entered the fight for the IBF-WBC-WBO belts with 17 knockouts in 17 fights. He got his 18th on Saturday, but it wasn’t just his power. It was his boxing and his patience, in ...
Beterbiev dropped Smith once in the first, twice more in the second and had Smith wobbly around the ring when referee Harvey Dock stepped in to call a halt to the carnage.
The light-heavyweight division was created in 1903, the brainchild of Chicago journalist Lou Houseman who was also a boxing manager and promoter. He matched his own fighter Jack Root with Kid McCoy and announced the fight as being for the light-heavyweight championship of the world.
It looks like Beterbiev may be forced into a mandatory with Yarde, the WBO’s No. 1 contender. Massive fight awaits Artur Beterbiev after his 2-round destruction of Joe Smith Jr., and it's not ...