{"id":73304,"date":"2018-06-28T13:26:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T18:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=73304"},"modified":"2018-06-28T13:31:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T18:31:00","slug":"140lb-rising-stars-are-ready-to-go-to-war-for-ibf-world-title-ali-trophy-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=73304","title":{"rendered":"140lb Rising Stars Are Ready To Go to War for IBF World Title &#038; Ali Trophy &#8211; Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[AdSense-A]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=73304\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=73304\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-73305 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/5baa1396-e79e-4bc1-a083-f1550da7713d-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/5baa1396-e79e-4bc1-a083-f1550da7713d-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/5baa1396-e79e-4bc1-a083-f1550da7713d-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/5baa1396-e79e-4bc1-a083-f1550da7713d.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The IBF Super-Lightweight Championship will be contested between Anthony Yigit and his IBF Mandatory Ivan Baranchyk in one of the quarter-finals of the World Boxing Super Series after both fighters enter the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>26-year-old Yigit ( 21-0-1, 7 KOs) from Sweden competed at the London 2012 Olympics losing by a single point to eventual silver medallist Denys Berinchyk. He is the EBU European Super-Lightweight Champion and IBF Mandatory and is now bringing his explosive and entertaining style to the World Boxing Super Series.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a great opportunity and I&#8217;m honored to have been chosen to fight among the best in the division,\u201d said Yigit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Ali Trophy tournament is a great example of how boxing should be promoted: the best fighting the best. That&#8217;s where I want to be and these are the fighters I want to face!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>25-year-old Ivan Baranchyk (18-0, 11 KOs) from Belarus is an IBF Mandatory, comes from a solid amateur career and he won the world championship as a junior in 2009. As a professional, he has lived up to his \u2018The Beast\u201d moniker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am really happy to be a part of the tournament because there are chances to take all the titles and show everyone that I am the best in the division,\u201d said Baranchyk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy nature, effort and my love of boxing will help me to get the Ali Trophy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Three weight classes will feature in Season II of the World Boxing Super Series with two categories, Bantamweight and Super-Lightweight, already announced.<\/p>\n<p>Fighters announced:<\/p>\n<p>Bantamweight:<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Burnett, WBA Super World Bantamweight Champion<\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Rodriguez, IBF World Bantamweight Champion<\/p>\n<p>Zolani Tete, WBO World Bantamweight Champion<\/p>\n<p>Super-Lightweight:<\/p>\n<p>Kiryl Relikh, WBA World Super-Lightweight Champion<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Yigit, European Super-Lightweight Champion and IBF Mandatory<\/p>\n<p>Ivan Baranchyk, IBF Mandatory<\/p>\n<p>Further details on Season II, the 2018\/2019 season of the World Boxing Super Series, will be announced in the coming days and weeks.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y3SX1-lYBiM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[AdSense-A] The IBF Super-Lightweight Championship will be contested between Anthony Yigit and his IBF Mandatory Ivan Baranchyk in one of the quarter-finals of the World Boxing Super Series after both fighters enter the tournament. 26-year-old Yigit ( 21-0-1, 7 KOs) from Sweden competed at the London 2012 Olympics losing by a single point to eventual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18416],"class_list":["post-73304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-140lb-rising-stars-are-ready-to-go-to-war-for-ibf-world-title-ali-trophy-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73304","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=73304"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}