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By Eric Thomas: WBC World cruiserweight champion Mairis Briedis (23-0, 18 KOs) beat Mike Perez (22-3, 14 KOs) by a 12 round unanimous decision in a very competitive fight in the quarterfinals of the World Boxing Super Series tourney (WBSS) on Saturday night in front of a large crowd at the Riga Arena in Riga, Latvia.
By Jeff Aranow: Mairis Briedis and Mike Perez will be fighting tonight in the quarterfinal fight on World Boxing Super Series at the Riga Arena in Riga, Latvia. The fight will be streamed on WorldBoxingSuperSeries.com, and it can also be seen on DirectTV on Audience in the U.S, as well as on the Super Channel in Canada and ITV Box Office in the UK. The start time for the Briedis-Perez fight is at 5:00 p.m. ET.
By Jim Dower: WBC World cruiserweight champion Mairis Briedis (22-0, 18 KOs) weighed in successfully at 198.6 pounds on Friday for his title defense against former heavyweight contender Mike Perez (22-2-1, 14 KOs) for their fight this Saturday night in their quarter finals fight on World Boxing Super Series (WBSS) at the Arena Riga, Latvia Perez weighed slightly less at 197.3 lbs.
By Jeff Aranow: The World Boxing Super Series continues this Saturday night with WBC cruiserweight champion Mairis Briedis fighting Mike Perez with the winner of his match to face WBO champion Oleksandr Usyk (13-0, 11 KOs in the semifinals the first quarter of 2018.
By Jim Dower: WBC World cruiserweight champion Mairis Briedis (22-0, 18 KOs) makes his first defense of his title this Saturday night against the hard hitting Cuban Mile “The Rebel” Perez (22-2-1, 14 KOs) in the quarter finals of the $50 million World Boxing Super Series (WBSS) tournament at the Riga Arena in Riga, Latvia.
By Gav Duthie: The sharp decline of the extremely talented Cuban Yuriorkis Gamboa has been painful to watch. The former two weight world champion picked up a tight 10 round majority decision win against expected cannon fodder opponent Alexis Reyes on Saturday. Gamboa won the fight but labored to the finish line against someone who shouldn’t be fit to lace his boots.
By Scott Gilfoid: Fighting for the first time at cruiserweight, former heavyweight contender Mike Perez (22-2-1, 14 KOs) obliterated a badly over-matched Viktor Biscak (10-1, 7 KOs) in the 1st round of a shceduled 6 round fight on Saturday night at the Odyssey Arena, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
By Allan Fox: Tomorrow night, #1 WBC Alexander Povetkin (28-1, 20 KOs) will be facing #2 WBC Mike Perez (21-1-1, 13 KOs) on May 22nd in a World Boxing Council heavyweight title eliminator bout at the Luzhniki, in Moscow, Russia.
The winner of the Povetkin vs. Perez clash will be the WBC mandatory challenger for WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder. The 35-year-old Povetkin has to be seen as the favorite in this fight because he’s looked better in his last couple of fights, and he’s done better than Perez.
By Allan Fox: This Friday, May 22nd, #1 WBC Alexander Povetkin (28-1, 20 KOs) will be facing #2 WBC Mike Perez (21-1-1, 13 KOs) in a WBC heavyweight eliminator in a fight that will be streamed on WatchESPN and televised on ESPN2 on tape delay.
The Povetkin-Perez fight will be staged at the Luzhniki, in Moscow, Russia. The winner of the fight will become the WBC mandatory challenger for WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (33-0, 32 KOs). It’ll give Wilder by far his toughest test of his career because he didn’t get much of a fight last January against a dehydrated Bermane Stiverne.