Olympic middleweight champion Brazilian
Ebert Conceição Souza debuts in the professional ring on August 13 in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) – will fight in a 6-round confrontation with a journiman from Nicaragua
Danny Mendoza (6-9, 4 KOs), who had never conceded early before.
It is interesting that already on August 26 Sousa has a second fight planned – in Laura de Freitas (Brazil) he will meet with a compatriot
Francisco Neves Valentim (1-4-1, 0 KOs).
Souza in the final of the Olympic Games 2020 (Tokyo, Japan) snatched victory from the favorite of the Ukrainian tournament
Alexander Khizhnyak – was inferior on points, but managed to knock out in the decisive round. Rumor has it that since then, the Brazilian has been stubbornly preparing for the transition to the pros.
Also, two local Olympians will perform as part of the show in Tashkent:
– 2016 OI-2016 champion Fazliddin Gaibnazarov (9-1, 5 KOs) in the welterweight limit will fight with an age-old Venezuelan gatekeeper
Luis Enrique Romero (11-5-1, 7 KOs), who just recently upset Ukrainian slugger Maxim Prodan;
– and the quarter-finalist of the Olympic Games-2020 Shakhobidin Zoirov (4-0, 2 KOs) in the second bantamweight (up to 55.3 kg) will measure his strength with a hopeless Nicaraguan
Kherson Larios (7-8, 3 KOs), with 6 defeats in a row.
Sousa’s transition to the professionals became known in December 2021: he was sheltered in Probellum. And his opponent in the 2020 Olympics final, Khizhnyak, chose to remain amateur. In response, Boss K2 stated: “I think this decision is absurd.”
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