{"id":60525,"date":"2016-05-18T22:11:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T03:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=60525"},"modified":"2016-05-18T22:12:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T03:12:08","slug":"beibut-shumenov-defends-title-against-junior-wright-this-saturday-night-in-las-vegas-breaking-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=60525","title":{"rendered":"Beibut Shumenov Defends Title Against Junior Wright this Saturday Night in Las Vegas – Breaking Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"beibut_header\"<\/a>World Boxing Association (WBA) Interim Cruiserweight World champion Beibut Shumenov (16-2, 10 KOs) makes his first title defense this Saturday night (May 21) against WBA No. 11-rated Junior “Hurricane” Wright (15-1-1, 12 KOs) at The Chelsea inside of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

“I’m happy to get the opportunity to fight this Saturday night,” Shumenov said, “but I wish that I could fight more often. I’ve been ready since January. Every training session I gain new knowledge. I am a completely different fighter than in my last fight.”<\/p>\n

Shumenov’s last fight was back in July, in which he defeated B.J. Flores (31-1-1, 20 KOs) by 12-round unanimous decision in Las Vegas to capture the vacant WBA Interim title, making the former WBA light heavyweight champion Shumenov the first professional boxer from Kazakhstan to be a two-division world champion.<\/p>\n

By becoming the WBA Interim cruiserweight champion, Shumenov also became the No. 1 ranked mandatory challenger for WBA Super cruiserweight titlist Denis Lebedev (28-2, 21 KOs), who also fights this Saturday in Russia against International Boxing Federation (IBF) champion Victor Emilio “El Tyson de Abasto” Ramirez (22-2-1, 17 KOs) in a unification match.<\/p>\n

The WBA has already mandated that the Lebedev-Ramirez must fight Shumenov within 120 days. The WBA, however, has failed to explain why it also declared a WBA “regular” cruiserweight world title fight this Friday night in France between No. 2 Yunier Dorticos and No. 5 Youri Kalenga (since upgraded to No. 3), especially after announcing that it would work this year to have only one world champion in each weight class.<\/p>\n

Shumenov, of course, is risking his mandatory position by fighting Wright, the former 5-time Chicago Golden Gloves champion. “I need to stay active,” Shumenov explained why he’s taking such a risk. “Every fight, I gain experience and it also helps me develop my fighting skills.”<\/p>\n

The 12-round Shumenov vs. Wright title fight is on the non-televised portion of The Cosmopolitan show.<\/p>\n