LAS VEGAS (Maj 19, 2016) – The World Boxing Association (WBA) has declared Saturday night’s fight between No. 1 rangiranih Shumenov Beibu (16-2, 10 KOs) and No. 11-procijenjen Junior “Uragan” Wright (15-1-1, 12 KOs) will become the WBA “redovan” kruzer svjetski prvak. The 12-round off-TV bout will take place at The Chelsea inside The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas.

Shumenov had been the WBA “interim” cruiserweight world champion and mandatory challenger for WBA Super cruiserweight titlist Denis Lebedev (28-2, 21 KOs), who also fights ove subote in a unification match against International Boxing Federation (IBF) prvak Victor Emilio “Tyson de Abasto” Ramirez (22-2-1, 17 KOs) u Rusiji.

The WBA has mandated that the Shumenov-Wright winner will be the mandatory challenger for the Lebedev-Ramirez unified winner, which must take place unutar 120 dani.

U petak night’s fight in France between No. 2 Yunier Dorticos No i. 3 Youri KALENGA, erroneously billed as for the WBA “redovan” naslov,will now be for the WBA “interim” cruiserweight world championship.