LAS VEGAS (五月 19, 2016) – The World Boxing Association (WBA) has declared Saturday night’s fight between No. 1 排名競爭者 Shumenov北部 (16-2, 10 科斯) and No. 11-額定 Junior “颶風” 賴特 (15-1-1, 12 科斯) will become the WBA “定期” 重量級世界冠軍. 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 丹尼斯·列別捷夫 (28-2, 21 科斯), who also fights 這個星期六 in a unification match against International Boxing Federation (IBF) 冠軍 埃米利奧·維克多 “泰森德的Abasto Plaza” 拉米雷斯 (22-2-1, 17 科斯) 在俄羅斯.

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

週五 night’s fight in France between No. 2 yunier Dorticos 和No. 3 尤里·卡倫加, erroneously billed as for the WBA “定期” 稱號,will now be for the WBA “interim” cruiserweight world championship.