{"id":44997,"date":"2011-08-10T10:20:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T14:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=14311"},"modified":"2011-08-10T10:20:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T14:20:47","slug":"boxing-news-wba-iba-world-light-heavyweight-champion-beibut-shumenov-ready-to-unify-the-belts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=44997","title":{"rendered":"Boxing News: WBA & IBA World Light Heavyweight Champion Beibut Shumenov Ready To UNIFY the BELTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Unification remains the goal for World Boxing Association (\u201cWBA\u201d) and International Boxing Association (\u201cIBA\u201d) light heavyweight king, Beibut Shumenov. If, however, none of the other 175-pound world champions \u2013 Bernard Hopkins, Tavoris Cloud and Nathan Cleverly \u2013 are willing or available to put their title belts on the line against Shumenov, the 2004 Kazakhstan Olympian is interested in taking on former world titlists and leading contenders Jean Pascal and Zsolt Erdei.<\/p>\n

Moments after Shumenov stopped three-time world title challenger Danny \u201cThe Bronx Bomber\u201d Santiagoin the ninth round, unloading 23 unanswered punches before the fight was halted, Beibut was being interviewed on TeleFutura\u2019s \u201cS\u00f3lo Boxeo Tecate\u201d live from South Point Hotel Casino in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Standing in the ring next to Shumenov during post-fight interviews was Pascal, who said he wanted to take Shumenov\u2019s title belts back to Canada. Beibut quickly accepted the challenge with a qualifier, directly saying to Pascal, \u201cYou\u2019re from Canada, I\u2019m from Kazakhstan; so, let\u2019s do it where all champions dream of fighting\u2026Las Vegas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shumenov\u2019s first option, naturally, would be to fight Pascal in Kazakhstan, where it would be a huge draw. But In 29 pro fights, Pascal (26-2-1, 16 KOs) has fought only twice outside of his adopted home in Canada, the last time in 2008 when he lost a 12-round decision in the United Kingdom to Carl Froch for the vacant WBC super middleweight championship. \u201cPascal is a top-level fighter,\u201d Shumenov said about his potential challenger.<\/p>\n

If Pascal won\u2019t leave his adopted Canadian home to challenge world champion Shumenov, two-time, two-divisional world champion Erdei (33-0, 18 KOs) is another potential challenger.<\/p>\n

\u201cErdei\u2019s people have already shown interest in fighting me if Pascal isn\u2019t,\u201d Beibut noted. \u201cErdei is unbeaten and a two-time world champion, first at light heavyweight and then as a cruiserweight. He\u2019s moved back down to light heavyweight and is a top challenger, more of a boxer than puncher, and now he trains (Philadelphia) in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n

Erdei and Pascal are rated No. 4 and No. 5, respectively, in the current WBA ratings. Shumenov, who says he\u2019ll fight one more time in 2011, concluded, \u201cI\u2019m ready to fight any of the top light heavyweights in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shumenov (12-1, 8 KOs) set a light heavyweight record for capturing a world title in the fewest career fights, 10, when (Jan. 10, 2010) he won a 12-round decision against Gabriel Campillo in Las Vegas. In three successful world title defenses, Shumenov won a unanimous 12-round decision versus No. 1 mandatory challenger and previously undefeated Viacheslav Uzelkov (UDEC12), followed by a six-round knockout of three-time world champion William Joppy (KO6), and then his recent victory by ninth-round TKO versus WBA No. 15-rated Santiago.<\/p>\n

In only 13 pro fights, Beibut has defeated four world champions (Campillo, Joppy, Byron Mitchell and Montell Griffin), as well as three world title challengers (Uzelkov, Santiago and Epifanio Mendoza<\/p>\n

For additional information about Shumenov visit www.KZEventProductions.com.<\/p>\n

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Unification remains the goal for World Boxing Association (\u201cWBA\u201d) and International Boxing Association (\u201cIBA\u201d) light heavyweight king, Beibut Shumenov. If, however, none of the other 175-pound world champions \u2013 Bernard Hopkins, Tavoris Cloud and Nathan Cleverly \u2013 are willing or available to put their title belts on the line against Shumenov, the 2004 Kazakhstan Olympian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1418,105],"class_list":["post-44997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-beibut-shumenov","tag-boxing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}