Azinga Fuzile. Picture by Mark Andrews/ Each day Dispatch
South African Azinga Fuzile will face Kenichi Ogawa for the vacant IBF junior light-weight title on November 27, Eddie Hearn introduced on social media Friday night.
The 12-round bout will happen at The Hulu Theatre inside Madison Sq. Backyard and can precede the light-weight conflict between Ring Journal champion Teofimo Lopez and IBF necessary challenger George Kambosos Jr.
Each fights will stream stay on DAZN.
Fuzile, who’s rated No. 9 by The Ring at 130 pounds, final fought on Might 29, when he dropped Martin Ward twice en path to a seventh-round knockout. That victory came about 20 months after he’d suffered a knockout defeat by the hands of Shavkatdzhon Rakhimov.
Colin Nathan, who manages Fuzile, filed a protest with the IBF, accusing Rakhimov’s nook of utilizing smelling salts, which is prohibited underneath South Africa guidelines. After an investigation, the New Jersey-based sanctioning physique discovered no wrongdoing and upheld the end result of the battle.
Fuzile (15-1, 9 KOs) was lately authorised by the IBF to face Ogawa after Rakhimov, who fought to a majority choice draw in opposition to Joseph ‘JoJo’ Diaz on February 13, withdrew from the battle attributable to an harm suffered throughout coaching camp.
Ogawa (25-1-1, 18 KOs), who resides in Tokyo, defeated Kazuhiro Nishitani by unanimous choice in his final bout on October 2 of final 12 months.
The conflict in opposition to Fuzile marks Ogawa’s second IBF title shot. He was initially declared the winner over Tevin Farmer through controversial choice in December 2017, however the consequence was modified to a No Contest after Ogawa examined optimistic for the banned substance androstanediol.
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