Champion of Russia 2022 and participant in the 2023 World Boxing Championship Pavel Sosulin On February 3, in Serpukhov near Moscow, he will meet former WBO European champion Fatih Keles from Turkey as part of the IBA Night of Champions tournament, the organizers of the show told .
The fight will take place over 8 rounds and will be the co-main event of the evening. The vacant title of IBA European champion in the weight category up to 71 kg will be at stake in the fight.
Sosulin has 8 professional victories, Keles has 17 victories, two defeats and one draw. Sosulin, who competes in the Olympic boxing games, last boxed professionally in October 2023, when he beat Uzbekistan’s Bakhromzhon Fozilov ahead of schedule in Perm. Keles entered the ring in late September in the co-main event of the Turkish Belek show “Gassiev – Wallin”, when he lost to Russian Hussein Baysangurov by split decision.
In the main fight of the Serpukhov tournament, which will take place within the framework of the All-Russian Boxing Forum, the three-time champion of Russia, bronze medalist of the 2023 World Championship Vsevolod Shumkov and the vice-world champion of Cuba Saidel Horta will face each other for the title of contender for the IBA professional belt in the weight category up to 57 kg.
Also as part of the show, 2016 Russian champion Artyom Suslenkov (9-0, KO 6) will meet Belgian Bilal Laggun (26-4-2, KO 14). The fight in the over 92 kg category is scheduled for eight rounds.
Other Russians Alexander Dorofeev and Ruslan Belousov will also fight in Serpukhov. Dorofeev (7-0, KO 3) will face Nigerian Austin Nnamdi (7-4, KO 6) in a 6-round fight in the weight category above 92 kg. And Belousov (4-0, KO 3) will meet Zholdas Zhengisov (6-0, KO 2) from Kazakhstan in a 6-round fight in the weight category up to 57 kg.
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Source : MatchTV
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