By Allan Fox: #1 WBC heavyweight contender Alexander Povetkin (28-1, 20 KOs) will be looking to cement his position as the top contender for the WBC title when he faces #2 WBC Mike Perez (21-1, 13 KOs) on May 22nd in a WBC heavyweight eliminator bout at the Luzhniki Arena in Moscow, Russia.
The winner of this fight will become the WBC mandatory challenger to champion Deontay Wilder (33-0, 32 KOs).
For the 35-year-old former WBA heavyweight champion and 2004 super heavyweight Olympic gold medalist Povetkin this is his second consecutive tough match-up.
By Allan Fox: #4 WBC heavyweight contender Mike Perez (20-1-1, 12 KOs) could be fighting on January 9th against an opponent still to be determined at the Chumash Resort in Santa Ynez, California. 
By Scott Gilfoid: If you saw last night’s heavyweight WBC eliminator bout between #3 WBC Mike Perez (20-1-1, 12 KOs) and Bryant Jennings (19-0, 10 KO’s) on the undercard of the Gennady Golovkin vs. Daniel Geale fight at Madison Square Garden in New York, you’ll have no doubt noticed how limited and lost Perez’s trainer Adam Booth was when it came to giving him any functional advise in the corner.
(Photo credit: Will Hart/HBO) By Chris Williams: In what shapes up to a 50-50 fight, #3 WBC Mike Perez (20-0-1, 12 KOs) and Bryant Jennings (18-0, 10 KOs) weighed in on Friday for their WBC heavyweight eliminator bout on Saturday night on the undercard of the Gennady Golovkin vs. Daniel Geale clash at Madison Square Garden in New York.
By Jim Dower: Unbeaten #5 WBC heavyweight contender Mike Perez (20-0-1, 12 KO’s) suffered a shoulder injury while training, and he won’t be able to make his May 24th WBC heavyweight eliminator fight against unbeaten #4 WBC Bryant Jennings (18-0, 10 KO’s) on May 24th at the American Bank Center, in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA. This is a huge blow for the 28-year-old Perez and for boxing fans, because the Perez-Jennings fight had promised to be an exciting fight between two highly talented and unbeaten heavyweights. 
By Scott Gilfoid: The World Boxing Council has ordered a WBC heavyweight title eliminator bout between #3 WBC, #4 WBA, #9 WBO, #11 IBF, Bryant Jennings (20-0-1, 12 KO’s) and #5 WBC, #8 WBO, Mike Perez (18-0, 10 KO’s), according to Dan Rafael of ESPN. This would be a second WBC title eliminator, because Deontay Wilder already fought in a WBC title eliminator bout last Saturday night in stopping Malik Scott in the 1st round in Puerto Rico. 
By Scott Gilfoid: The WBC might want to make an adjustment on their heavyweight rankings to move Mike Perez (20-0-1, 12 KO’s) from #5 WBC to something closer to #15 after his horrible performance last night in getting what many boxing fans saw as a gift 10 round draw against little known Carlos Takam (29-1-1, 23 KO’s) at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada.