Terence Crawford’s teammate, Steven Nelson, says IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev brings nothing more than his past opponents, and he rates former WBA 154-lb champ Israil Madrimov above him.
Jaron ‘Boots’ Ennis could move up to 154 on February 22nd to challenge Vergil Ortiz Jr. for his WBC interim junior middleweight title in a Riyadh Season event in Saudi Arabia.
#3-ranked contender Erickson Lubin says he’s ready to challenge IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev (23-0, 17 KOs) next. Lubin states that he was supposed to have fought Murtazaliev, but the negotiations didn’t work out.
Sergio Mora is blaming Tim Tszyu’s third-round TKO loss to IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev (23-0, 17 KOs) on “bad matchmaking” for taking on this killer last Saturday night in an ill-advised fight at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida.
IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev (23-0, 17 KOs) blitzed Tim Tszyu (24-2, 17 KOs), scoring a lightning-quick third-round TKO on Saturday night in Orlando, Florida.
The IBF has thrown a wrench into plans for a rematch between undisputed four-belt light heavyweight champion Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol by ordering the new champion to defend against mandatory Michael Eifert next.
Tim Tszyu (24-1, 17 KOs) has a tough fight ahead of him against IBF junior middleweight champion Bakhram Murtazaliev (22-0, 16 KOs) this Saturday, October 19th at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Florida and live on Prime Video.
Artur Beterbiev, the new undisputed light heavyweight champion, and his conquered opponent, Dmitry Bivol, have surged past superstar Canelo Alvarez in Ring Magazine’s updated pound-for-pound list.
Artur Beterbiev’s trainer, John Scully, says David Benavidez and Joshua Buatsi are two additional options besides Dmitry Bivol for his Beterbiev’s next fight after capturing the undisputed light heavyweight championship last Saturday night in Riyadh.
IBF/WBC/WBO light heavyweight champion Artur Beteriev (21-0, 20 KOs) looked like he was hunting down WBA champion Dmitry Bivol (23-1, 12 KOs) like he was his prey on Saturday to defeat him by a 12 round majority decision to win the undisputed champion at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh.