Fight between Russians Murat Gassiev and the Swede Otto Wallin will be for the second line of the IBF heavyweight ranking, and the winner of this pair can already meet the Croatian Filip Hrgovic in the next fight for the vacant full title. The Russian boxer’s team reported this to .
WBA Inter‑Continental heavyweight belt holder Gassiev will meet Wallin on September 30 in Belek, Turkey. Gassiev is ranked 12th in the IBF rankings and Wallin is ranked 9th. The full owner of the IBF belt is Alexander Usyk.
— The fight with Wallin will be for the second line of the IBF ranking, because Hrgovic is already the mandatory challenger. But with a greater probability, Usik will refuse the IBF belt, since his team is not interested in meeting Hrgovic. In this case, the winner of the Gassiev-Wallin fight will meet Hrgovic for the vacant IBF title, the Russian team said.
Former WBA and IBF cruiserweight champion Gassiev has 30 victories (23 by KO) and one defeat. The Russian has been competing in the heavyweight division since the fall of 2020 and during that time he has earned four debut victories. During his last fight in March in Yerevan, the 29-year-old boxer eliminated the American Mike Balogun in the second round. Wallin has 25 victories (14 by KO) with a defeat in September 2019 against the current WBC champion, Briton Tyson Fury. After this fight, the 32-year-old Swede won five in a row.
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