Avtandil Khurtsidze vs. Tommy Langford on April 22

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    With WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders in negotiations for a fight against IBF/IBO/WBA/WBC champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin on June 10, #1 WBO Avtandil Khurtsidze will fight Tommy Langford for the interim WBO 160 pound title on April 22 at the Leicester Arena in Leicester, England. Dan Rafael is reporting the big news about the Khurtsidze-Langford fight, which isn’t a bad match-up. The winner of the fight will face the winner of the Golovkin vs. Saunders fight at some point in the future.

    The fight will likely need to take place soon, as Saunders has already been ordered by the World Boxing Organization to fight back to back mandatory challengers due to him having sat inactive for 1 year before he finally made a voluntary defense against fringe contender Artur Akavov last December.

    I doubt the WBO will let Golovkin sit on their WBO title without requiring he defend it against the winner of the Khurtsidze vs. Langford fight straightaway.

    Read more http://www.boxingnews24.com/2017/02/avtandil-khurtsidze-vs-tommy-langford-april-22/
     

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