Murodjon Akhmadaliev will now defend his WBA and IBF World Tremendous-Bantamweight titles towards José Velásquez on the SNHU Enviornment in Manchester, New Hampshire on Friday November 19, live worldwide on DAZN, after Ronny Rios was pressured to withdraw with COVID.
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Akhmadaliev (9-0 7 KOs) places the belts on the road for the second time in New Hampshire having ripped them from former ruler Daniel Roman in Miami in January 2020 and defended them with a trademark efficiency of equal type and spite on residence turf in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in April with a fifth spherical stoppage over Ryosuke Iwasa.
‘MJ’ was set to fulfill WBA necessary and #1 ranked Rios, however the Californian’s misfortune opens the door for a primary World title shot for Velazquez (29-6-2 19 KOs). The Chilean’s profession has been on the rise since inauspicious beginnings, and the 32 12 months previous enters the bout unbeaten in his final 21 fights and has picked up quite a lot of regional belts in that run stretching again to 2016.
Velazquez is for certain to depart all of it on the road on the most important night time of his profession, however with Akhmadaliev eyeing unification bouts on the highway to turning into the most recent undisputed champion in boxing, the 27 12 months previous is able to finish his prolonged camp with Joel Diaz in Indio, California with one other eye-catching victory.
“I hope that Ronny is feeling effectively, it’s a disgrace that he can’t face me, however it’s a nice probability for Jose and I’m certain he’ll put all the things into this battle,” mentioned Akhmadaliev.
“The whole lot has been good in camp, it’s been a protracted camp with a few fights getting cancelled, however we’ve stayed within the gymnasium and I’m able to defend what’s mine.
“Now we have a brand new gymnasium, and we find it irresistible, it’s our new residence. The services are nice and there’s extra room and new rings. It’s all the time a pleasure being in camp as a result of Joel Diaz and the staff – we’re one large household.
“We joke round and fiddle, however we get nice work in, we now have our personal language within the gymnasium with damaged English, Spanish, Uzbek and Russian, all combined up. It’s enjoyable however that’s as a result of we work so exhausting that we be certain we take pleasure in ourselves when the work is finished. We eat, sleep and drink boxing, the self-discipline is second to none.”
Akhmadaliev’s conflict with Velazquez is a part of a quadruple header of World title motion in New Hampshire, topped by Demetrius Andrade (30-0 18 KOs) defending his WBO World Middleweight title towards Eire’s Jason Quigley (19-1 14 KOs).
It’s Mexico vs. Puerto Rico within the long-awaited showdown between WBC World Flyweight champion Julio Cesar Martinez (18-1 14 KOs) and McWilliams Arroyo (21-4 16 KOs) and the fourth World title bout on the invoice is the second step on the trail to crowning an undisputed girls’s champion at 140lbs as Kali Reis (18-7-1 5 KOs) takes on Jessica Camara (8-2) for the WBA, IBO and vacant WBO straps.
