The Cuban Federation announced new clashes of professional boxing, Now in the Russian city of Yoshkar -la where the Bicampeón Olympic Roniel Iglesias (71 kg) and Jorge Soto (80 kg) will be presented on the next day 28.
The opponents were not defined, but the president of the Cuban Boxing Federation, Alberto Puig de la Barca, reported that the organizers confirmed both presentations.
They announce professional fights for Cuban fans
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Puig de la Barca advanced that Iglesias will have another raid of that type on March 7, according to Report of the portal HIT.
Erislandy Álvarez, the April fight
The manager added that in April the presentation of Erislandy Álvarez (63.5 kg) could be completed in the semifinal of the Professional World Cup of the International Boxing Association (IBA), based in Beijing.
The lawsuit between the Olympic champion of Paris 2024 had been postponed by the organizers of the contest since the beginning of the year.
Álvarez, also a world runner -up of 63.5 kilograms, advanced to that instance thanks to his unanimous victory in six rounds over the Kazakh Adilet Kurmetov, in another duel held in the capital of China.
Puig de la Barca now recalled that Álvarez, in eight assaults, will face Tayiko Bakhodur Usmonov.
Puig also advanced that the intervention of Saidel Horta (57 kg) in a World Cup convened for Saudi Arabia by the World Boxing Council is forged.
Similarly, he said he was signed with the promoter Agon Sports & Events GmbH Co Kg to conceive participation in events inside and outside the island.
He said that one of the proposals is to organize in Varadero a Cuba program against the rest of the world, and boost the extra -defronist projection of the main exponents of the national concentrate, the source points out.
