Cruiserweight Warrior Mairis Briedis Announces His Retirement
Mairis Briedis, who ranks as one of the toughest, most talented of recent cruiserweight warriors, has officially announced he is retiring from the ring.
Mairis Briedis, who ranks as one of the toughest, most talented of recent cruiserweight warriors, has officially announced he is retiring from the ring.
The undercard for this Saturday’s Tyson Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk event is a mixed bag for their PPV event on DAZN in Riyadh.
It has been revealed, by Turki Al-Sheikh, that a rematch between former cruiserweight champions Jai Opetaia and Mairis Briedis will go ahead on the February 17th card that will of course be headlined by the Tyson Fury-Oleksandr Usyk undisputed heavyweight title fight showdown.
As fans are aware, Jai Opetaia opted to vacate the IBF cruiserweight title so as to be able to go ahead with this Saturday’s big payday of a fight with Ellis Zorro, the fight to take place on the huge “Day of Reckoning” card in Saudi Arabia.
Jai Opetaia did an admirable job of fighting through the pain of a broken jaw to unseat IBF cruiserweight champion Mairis Briedis in winning a narrow 12-round unanimous decision on Saturday night at the Gold Coast Convention Centre in Queensland, Australia.
Five years to the day after huge underdog Jeff horn defeated Manny Pacquiao (controversially) in Australia, the country has seen another big underdog crowned a world champion.
Eddie Hearn expects WBO cruiserweight champion Lawrence Okolie to have a tough time defeating #4 ranked contender Michal Cieslak this Sunday night in the main event at the O2 Arena in London, England.
In the opinion of most fans, Mairis Briedis is the best cruiserweight out there right now. Beaten only by Oleksandr Usyk (in a close fight, with Usyk winning a majority decision in January of 2018), the reigning IBF champion is headed towards a fight with his mandatory challenger Jai Opetaia, in Australia.
All that talk of Canelo Alvarez maybe going up to cruiserweight in search of a fifth world title in as many weight divisions, dismissed as just that, talk, by many, might prove to be more than mere hot air.
Fighting for the first time in a little over a year, IBF and Ring Magazine cruiserweight champ Mairis Briedis scored an impressive third-round stoppage win over Germany’s Artur Mann last night in Riga, Latvia.