The fight of the 2016 Olympic champion, and now the first heavyweight professional boxer Evgeniya Tishchenko with Cuban Mike Perez will take place on November 19 in Yekaterinburg, a source familiar with the negotiations told .
In early October, Tishchenko told that his fight with Peres was scheduled for November 25 in Moscow.
– Indeed, as the date of the next fight, Evgeny Tishchenko was considered November 25, and the place was Moscow. But in the end it was decided to hold the fight a week earlier and, as usual, in the Urals. As a result, Evgeny will enter the ring on November 19 in Yekaterinburg. The opponent remains unchanged – Mike Perez. Contracts for the fight will be signed in the near future, – said the interlocutor of .
Tishchenko, 31, has 10 professional ring victories with just one loss to Tabiso Mchunu of South Africa in March 2021. In Tishchenko’s last fight in July, in the fourth round, he beat fellow countryman Kureysh Sagov by knockout technical.
Perez, 36, has 27 wins, three losses and a draw. The Cuban is known to Russian viewers since the 2015 fight, when Perez was knocked out by Alexander Povetkin in 90 seconds. In 2017, Peres lost to then-WBC heavyweight champion Mairis Briedis of Latvia. After this setback, Perez picked up five wins.
Source : MatchTV
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