Olympic champion Yevgeny Tishchenko will fight Leon Hart under the Russian flag, the athlete’s manager and trainer Eduard Kravtsov told .
Olympic champion 2016 Tishchenko will meet German Leon Hart on December 9 in Dubai at the IBA Night of Champions tournament in a fight for the vacant WBA belt in a new weight category (up to 101.6 kg). Tishchenko occupies first place in the BoxRec rankings in the top heavyweight division among Russian boxers.
— And Albert (Batyrgaziev ), and Muslim (Gadjimagomedov ), and Evgeniy (Tishchenko) and Mark (Petrovsky ) will go to fight under the Russian flag. It’s not even discussed,” the boxers’ manager and trainer told .
Tishchenko, 32, has 12 victories and one defeat in the professional ring. In the previous fight, the Russian boxer defeated Belgian Yves Ngabu at the RCC Boxing Promotions tournament in May in Yekaterinburg. Hart has a record of 22 wins, five losses and one draw.
The “IBA Champions Night” tournament will be broadcast live on the channel, as well as on the websites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru, broadcasting begins on December 9 at 22:00 Moscow time.
Read the interview with Evgeniy Tishchenko on the website https://matchtv.ru/ on Friday, December 8
Source : MatchTV
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