Ilunga Makabu

Richard Riakporhe battles Olanrewaju Durodola for WBC Silver cruiserweight belt on. The judges scores were.

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Canelo Alvarez will attempt to become a five-division titleholder after a fight with WBC cruiserweight champion Ilunga Makabu was confirmed by the WBC yesterday.

. But Ilungas greater strength and power prevailed. Richard Riakporhe can line up a fight against WBC champion Ilunga Makabu says WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman. Richard Riakporhe fights Olanrewaju Durodola on Saturday night live on Sky. What he has done with the heavyweights he spars with and that is why we asked for the fight Reynoso told ESPN Deportes Salvador Rodriguez.

Ilunga Makabu retained his WBC cruiserweight title with a dramatic seventh-round stoppage over a very determined Olanrewaju Durodola in Congo. Ilunga Makabu was KOd by Tony Bellew five years ago but built back to become WBC cruiserweight world champion and now looks set to fight Canelo. Omar Mintum 114-112 Carlos Flores 115-111 and Humberto Olivares 116-111 all in favor of Junior Makabu. Ilunga Makabu and Thabiso Mchunu agree to title rematch.

View complete Tapology profile bio rankings photos news and record. Saul Canelo Alvarez set to challenge Ilunga Makabu for WBC cruiserweight title in bid to conquer a fifth division. 31 rows Junior Ilunga Makabu born 8 November 1987 is a Congolese professional boxer who has held the WBC cruiserweight title since January 2020 and also challenged once for the same title in 2016. Derek Bonnett reports as Ilunga Makabu retains his WBC cruiserweight title in a tougher-than-expected battle with Olanrewaju Durodola.

Ilunga Makabu struggles before stopping Olanrewaju Durodola. Makabu scored a comeback knockout when they first met in 2015. Despite missing out on. The rich history of African boxing will be rewritten when the continents left-handers Ilunga Makabu and Thabiso Mchunu oppose each other for the WBC belt in December.

As of September 2021 he is ranked as the Worlds second best active cruiserweight by BoxRec the The Ring magazine and the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board. A strange sequence of events ended with Ilunga Makabu winning a cruiserweight title in his native country. Makabu is riding a nine fight winning streak and he won the vacant title on Jan. They are both very good fighters.

Canelo Alvarez vs. The multi-division champion Mexican fighter is. It wont replace FuryWilder 3 as fight of the year but Ring Magazine will list it as an honorable mention. Ilunga Makabu could fight Canelo Alvarez Credit.

Makabu 28-2-0 25 KOs. Thabiso 23-5 13 KOs who hails from South Africa and is nicknamed The. Canelo is already a four-division champion having won belts from light-middleweight all the way to light-heavyweight. Ilunga Makabu Cruiserweight Title Fight Approved by WBC Doric Sam November 17 2021 Comments.

31 2020 with a unanimous decision over Michael Cieslak. Ilunga Junior Makabu 28-2-0 is a Pro Boxer out of Johannesburg Gauteng South Africa. Ilunga Junior Makabu came from behind to stop Mchunu in the 11th round. This should be interesting.

Canelo Alvarez may have his next opponent a curveball choice in Ilunga Junior Makabu Photo by David BeckerGetty Images Canelo Alvarez will reportedly attempt to win a world title in a fifth. Ilunga Makabu is a 34-year-old professional boxer from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and has gone from strength to strength in recent years. During that discussion they gave Canelo the green light to challenge the WBC cruiserweight champion Ilunga Makabu. WBC cruiserweight champion Ilunga Makabu has embraced the possibility of a showdown in 2022 with Mexican superstar Saul Canelo Alvarez.

I have traveled from France and Makabu from the Congo to. Saul Canelo Alvarez is set to make the jump up to cruiserweight and take on the WBC champion Ilunga Makabu in his next bout. Makabu signed a contract with promoter Don King in September only to sign a contract without him to fight Michal Cieslak for the vacant WBC title Friday in Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo where King hoped to reprise the legendary Rumble in the Jungle featuring Muhammad Ali. But he appears to have a FIFTH weight class eyed after requesting to fight Makabu.

Makabu defeats Cieślak and becomes the new WBC champion. At the WBC Convention on Wednesday in Mexico City the organization approved the request of Canelos trainer and manager Eddy Reynoso to have Alvarez challenge Ilunga Junior Makabu for the cruiserweight championship. In the fight for the vacant WBC cruiserweight title Ilunga Makabu 27-2 24 KOs scored a twelve round unanimous decision win over previously undefeated Michał Cieślak 19-1 13 KOs on a temporary stage built especially for this event in Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo. The WBC held a convention in Mexico City to discuss all things boxing.

Prior to that he had an unsuccessful attempt to lift a title belt against Tony Bellew in 2016 being stopped in the third round. King signed the Congos Ilunga Makabu 26-2 who is the WBCs number one contender for the vacant cruiserweight championship. Canelo Alvarez could chase a title in a fifth weight class.

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