2019 World Champion and 2020 Olympic Silver Medalist Muslim Gadzhimagomedov On August 26, in Serpukhov near Moscow, he will fight with the double Cuban Olympic champion Julio Cesar La Cruz. This was reported by tournament organizers to .
The 92kg professional boxing bout will headline the IBA Night of Champions show. The tournament will be timed to coincide with the celebration of International Boxing Day, which is traditionally celebrated on August 27. All bouts will consist of five rounds.
Gadzhimagomedov has met La Cruz twice at the amateur level – in the final of the Tokyo Olympics and in the semi-finals of the international tournament in Morocco in February 2023. Both times the Russian boxer suffered a defeat.
Also on August 26, 2019 European Games silver medalist Khariton Agrba, 2023 World Championship bronze medalist Vsevolod Shumkov and 2021 World Champion Mark Petrovsky will have their fights.
Agrba (up to 67 kg) will meet Xolisani Ndongeni from South Africa, Petrovsky (over 92 kg) – with Julio Castillo from Ecuador, and Shumkov (up to 63.5 kg) – with Cuban Lazaro Alvarez.
Live broadcasts of mixed martial arts and boxing tournaments can be viewed on and Match! Fighter”, as well as on the sites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.
Source : MatchTV
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