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Kravtsov: “We will work on organizing the fight between Sosulin and WBA champion Barau in the spring”
The team of Russian boxer Pavel Sosulin will work on organizing a fight with WBA junior middleweight champion Abass Barau. Chairman of the coaching council of the Russian Boxing Federation Eduard Kravtsov told Match TV about this.
On Thursday in Samara at the “IBA.PRO 12” tournament, held as part of the “Russia is a Sports Power” forum, Sosulin knocked out Spaniard Jorge Fortea in the second round and defended the IBA.PRO Intercontinental junior middleweight belt. Sosulin is ranked second in the WBA rankings, has the WBA Gold belt and is a mandatory challenger according to this version.
– It was a great fight. Pavel had a great experience with a good and worthy opponent, who was stylistically different from many previous opponents. Fortea fought a competitive round and a half until he was knocked out. And the fact that Pavel hits the body well… This is not the first opponent he knocked out like that. Homework works. As for future plans, let us remind you that Pavel is a mandatory challenger according to the WBA. And we will work on organizing a fight with the current WBA champion Abass Barau. It will be seen how the negotiations go. But we hope that somewhere in the spring we will try to organize this fight,” Kravtsov told Match TV.
Sosulin is 29 years old. In the professional ring he has 13 victories without a single defeat. Fortea, 34, has 25 wins, five losses and a draw.
31-year-old German Barau has held the WBA junior middleweight championship belt since September. Barau has 17 wins and one loss in the professional ring.
IBA.PRO tournaments are broadcast live on the Match TV and Match! Fighter”, as well as on the websites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.
Match TV (part of Gazprom Media Holding) is the general information partner of the Russia – Sports Power forum.
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World Boxing Organization (WBO) has published the heavyweight rankings as of December 2025 on its official website.
The undefeated British is in first place. Moses Ithauma He last entered the ring in August (13-0, 11 KOs), and won the WBO Inter-Continental belt by knocking out his compatriot Dillian Whyte.
Second place went to Filip Hrgovic (19-1, 14 KOs), who defeated Briton David Adeleye by unanimous decision in August. The representative of Croatia has the WBO International title. China’s Zhang Zhilei (27-3-1, 22 KOs) rounded out the top three.
A British heavyweight world champion Fabio Wardley The former holder of the interim belt (20-0-1, 19 KOs) was promoted after Oleksandr Usyk relinquished his WBO title.
The representative of Ukraine was excluded from the ranking because he had championship titles according to other versions (WBC, WBA, IBF).
Famous heavyweight Vladislav Sirenko (22-1, 19 KOs), ranked 14th, left the rankings. In his last fight, he suffered an unexpected defeat against Englishman Solomon Dacres.
World Boxing Organization rankings (WBO) heavyweight title:
- Champion: Fabio Wardley (Great Britain)
- Moses Ithauma (England)
- Filip Hrgovic (Croatia)
- Zhang Zhilei (China)
- Daniel Dubois (Great Britain)
- Jared Anderson (USA)
- Derek Chisora (Great Britain)
- Nelson Hisa (Albania)
- Bakhodir Jalolov (Uzbekistan)
- Richard Thores (USA)
- Anthony Joshua (Great Britain)
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British organizer Eddie Hearn Reacts to speculation some boxing fans have that the fight will go ahead jake paul And Anthony Joshua it was fake.
“Even now people say, ‘Oh yeah, it was definitely a fixed battle.’ Today a guy commented on one of my posts: ‘Yes, it was definitely staged.’ I reply: ‘Do you realize you broke his jaw in two places?’
He may never be able to box again. Almost no one talks about this. People think it’s simple; They connect your jaw with wire, tighten a few screws, and move on. However, there were many fighters who broke their jaw and never entered the ring again.
And yes, “no, that moment might be real, but everything else…” – as if we were actors here. Everything was 100% real. There was no strategy, no agreement, no scenario.
Anthony wanted to get in as early and clean as possible. Unfortunately, the only time he actually hit cleanly was in the sixth inning. And unfortunately, this happened to Jake too.
We didn’t want this to happen to Jake. In the end, we wanted to win and end the war, but he accepted such dangers and took such risks on himself in the war. We hope he can recover,” Hearn said.
The video of the fight in which Anthony Joshua knocked out Jake Paul is available on our website.
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British heavyweight Anthony Joshua Who could be the next opponent of the American blogger jake paulIf he decides to continue his career.
“Jake’s got spirit. He’s got guts. He did everything he could, and my hat’s off to him because, first of all, not a lot of fighters would get in the ring with me, but Jake did. Secondly, even after he got knocked down, he kept trying to get back up. I trust him.”
So America, I believe you have a guy who could potentially come back again and his heart is still in it. He should dust himself off, come back, and maybe sell this arena in 2026. Maybe against Gervonta Davis or Ryan Garcia,” Anthony said.
The video of the fight in which Anthony Joshua knocked out Jake Paul is available on our website.
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