Double world champion and 2020 Olympic silver medalist Muslim Gadzhimagomedov told that he may miss the Russian championship, and in August he will perform in the professional ring.
Gadzhimagomedov in mid-May won a gold medal at the World Championships in Tashkent in weight up to 92 kg and became a two-time world champion. In the quarterfinals of the tournament in the capital of Uzbekistan, Gadzhimagomedov was seriously injured in the leg. After the final, the boxer said he was considering withdrawing from the tournament. In the professional ring, Gadzhimagomedov’s official statistics include only one fight – in December 2021 he won an early victory. At the same time, the Russian held a large number of exhibition fights at the professional level. The Russian Championship will take place in August in Khabarovsk.
– I’m healing the injury, I haven’t fully recovered yet. It takes time, it takes time. I underwent rehabilitation in one of the best clinics in Russia. I’m working on faster recovery. Most likely, we will be released from the Russian championship. But there will be other departures, in August I plan to have a professional fight. But it is not yet clear for the Russian championship, but you will most likely see me in the ring in August,” Gadzhimagomedov told on the sidelines of SPIEF.
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”, starting at 8:30 p.m. (Moscow time). The confrontation between Leningrad and Siberia will also be held on , the broadcast will begin at 22:30 (Moscow time).
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Source : MatchTV
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