By Tim Royner: World Boxing Council president Mauricio Sulaiman says WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis ‘Superman’ Stevenson will be defending his title against interim WBC champion Oleksandr Gvozdyk on December 1. This will be the first mandatory defense for the 40-year-old Stevenson in five years since his defense against Tony Bellew in 2013.
By Chris Williams: Due to the controversy surrounding Monday’s purse bid for WBC World light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson’s defense against mandatory challenger Oleksandr Gvozdyk, the World Boxing Council will be ruling this Thursday whether to stage a second purse bid. Monday’s purse bid took place in Manhattan in New York with Stevenson’s promoter Yvon Michel putting in the winning bid of $2.101 million in topping Gvozdy’s promoter Top Rank’s bid of $1.675.
By Jeff Aranow: Badou Jack (21-1-4, 13 KOs) is probably going to need to wait a little for his rematch against WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson (29-1-1, 24 KOs), because he has a mandatory defense that is due against Oleksandr Gvozdyk (15-0, 12 KOs).
By Allan Fox: WBC president says they’ll be considering a request from WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis ‘Superman’ Stevenson, if it comes, to fight a rematch against Badou Jack and put off his WBC mandatory challenger Oleksandr Gvozdyk (15-0, 12 KOs) until after that fight is made.
By Allan Fox: Oleksandr Gvozdyk (15-0, 12 KOs) put in a workmanlike performance in defeating #11 WBC over Mehdi Amar (34-6-2, 16 KOs) by a 12 round unanimous decision to win the vacant interim World Boxing Council 175 lb. title on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York.
By Chris Williams: Amir Imam (21-0, 18 KOs) weighed in at 139 ¼ pounds on Friday for his fight this Saturday night against unbeaten 2012 U.S Olympian Jose Carlos Ramirez (21-0, 16 KOs) for the vacant World Boxing Council light welterweight title at Madison Square Garden in New York. Ramirez weighed in at 139 lbs. The ESPN televised Ramirez-Imam card starts at 8:00 p.m. ET.
By Gav Duthie: Promoter Yvon Michel has declared the intention of Eleider Alvarez 23-0 (11) not to participate in purse bids for a final, final, final, final eliminator against Oleksandr Gvozdyk 14-0 (12). I apologize that the word final was written 4 times, but it was intentional because this would-be Alvarez’s 4th final eliminator to get a shot at the WBC title held by Adonis Stevenson.
By Dan Amrbose: World Boxing Council president Mauricio Sulaiman will be sanctioning the fight between WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis ‘Superman’ Stevenson (29-1, 24 KOs) and former 2 division world champion Badou ‘The Ripper’ Jack (22-1-2, 13 KOs). Additionally, the WBC will also be ordering a fight between #1 WBC Eleider Alvarez (23-0, 11 KOs) and #2 WBC Oleksandr Gvozdyk (14-0, 12 KOs). This will be a mini-tournament, according to Sulaiman.
By Chris Williams: Terence Crawford (31-0, 22 KOs) hit the scales right at the light welterweight limit of 140 pounds on Friday for his unification contest against unbeaten IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Julius “Blue Machine” Indongo (22-0, 11 KOs) this Saturday night on ESPN and ESPN Deportes at the Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, New York.
By Chris Williams: Unbeaten light welterweight champions Terence Crawford (31-0, 22 KOs) and Julius Indongo (22-0, 11 KOs) will be facing each other this Saturday night in August 19 in a unification clash on ESPN at the Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Nebraska.