2023 World Boxing Championship quarter-finalist Igor Sviridchenkov said the Victory Cup would be his first competition after the tournament in the capital of Uzbekistan.
Sviridchenkov on Thursday, as part of the Tula team, will take part in the second stage of the Victory Cup as part of the Sports Games of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF). In the weight category up to 73 kg, Sviridchenkov will face Cheerav Ashalaev (Kavkaz). At the World Championships, which ended in mid-May in Tashkent, Sviridchenkov reached the quarterfinals.
– The Victory Cup has a very interesting format – fights according to the rules of professional boxing. Now I will be up against an opponent who recently won the Russian Youth Championship. It will be interesting for me to fight him, since I haven’t fought for a month. Yes, after the rest I resumed training, there were sparrings, but there were no fights yet. But I’m even older and I have to show my level. We have analyzed our performance at the World Championships, and the result of our work on bugs should already be visible at the national championship, ”reports the correspondent of in the words of Sviridchenkov.
The Russian Championship will take place in August in Khabarovsk.
Boxing tournaments are broadcast live on the federal channel and the thematic channels of the holding, as well as on the sites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru. June 15 on and Match! Fighter” will be presented the second stage of the “Victory Cup”. The tournament will be held in St. Petersburg as part of the SPIEF Sports Games. The meetings “Tula” – “Kavkaz” and “Leningrad” – “Siberia” will be broadcast on the “Match! Fighter”, beginning – 20:30 (MSK). The confrontation between “Leningrad” and “Siberia” will also take place on “”, the start of the broadcast is at 22:30 (Moscow time).
Gazprom-Media Holding is the general media partner of SPIEF 2023.
Source : MatchTV
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