In August, Gilberto Mendoza and his WBA once again sanctioned a scandalous fight in the cruiserweight limit (up to 90.7 kg) between the “super champion”, representing France, a native of Armenia Arsen Gulamiryan (26-0, 18 KOs) and the mandatory challenger Russian Alexei Yegorov (11- 0.7 KO).
Gulamiryan last defended the title in 2019. For some unknown reason, he still remains the owner of a full-fledged championship belt. Egorov has also not entered the ring for a long time (since 2020). It’s funny that he won the mandatory challenger status by beating Ukrainian gatekeeper Roman Golovashchenko, who has never even been in the WBA ratings.
In March, in response to the criminal invasion of the Russian army into the territory of independent Ukraine, the WBC, IBF and WBO refused to sanction fights involving Russians. The WBA counts money.
Be that as it may, the fight Gulamiryan vs Egorov will take place in France, reports
Dan Raphael. promotion company Y12 Boxing won the auction with a modest amount of 364 thousand USD. Russian promoter company World of Boxing offered just over 300 thousand USD at a minimum rate of 200 thousand USD.
BaboutMost of the prize money will go to Gulamiryan – 273 thousand USD (75%). Egorov will earn 91 thousand USD (25%).
The fight will take place on November 19 in France. Presumably in Paris or Cannes.
The WBA often breaks the bottom. In June, the president of the organization presented the belt of the honorary president of the world to the Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, whom the entire civilized world does not recognize as the legitimately elected president of the country. The dictator is supported only by his “colleagues” from Russia and Belarus.
Earlier, the legendary Vitali Klitschko said that if the WBA allowed the Russian flag or anthem during the championship fight, then “Vladimir will dip the title in a bucket of blood.”
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