North American Boxing Federation (NABF) light heavyweight champion Isaac Chilemba is desperate to face champion Adonis Stevenson in a World Boxing Council title fight.<\/p>\n
Chilemba is the current WBC number one light heavyweight contender, and has expressed his frustration to worldboxingnews<\/em>. net as the talented fighter patiently awaits his opportunity to fight current champion Stevenson.<\/p>\n \u201cI want the title shot. I fought hard to get to the number one spot in order to get a chance at taking on the champion,\u201d Chilemba told the online publication.<\/p>\n \u201cNow, it\u2019s heartbreaking to see the champion ducking and diving and fighting people who are not even ranked or worth a chance. Firstly, Sakio Bika had no right to get a chance, now they talking about Oosthuizen who is nothing in the light heavyweight division.\u201d<\/p>\n The 28 year-old is on a four-fight winning streak which most recently saw Chilemba end Vasily Lepikhin\u2019s perfect record via an impressive ten round decision.<\/p>\n Stevenson is rumoured to be eyeing a unification fight with South African IBO title holder Thomas Oosthuizen in September, although Chilemba is hoping something can be done to mandate his chance as the top-rated fighter with the World Boxing Council.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m happy to fight an elimination fight against the number two guy if being the number one contender isn\u2019t good enough for everybody! Stevenson and his advisor Al Haymon want easy money fights instead of being a real champion and taking on real challenges.<\/p>\n \u201cI worked hard to get here, it\u2019s my right and I deserve the opportunity,\u201d he said<\/p>\n Currently ranked number two with the WBC is Andrzej Fonfara who took out former pound for pound star Julio Cesar Chavez in April and has already fought and lost to Stevenson in a gallant attempt back in May of last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" North American Boxing Federation (NABF) light heavyweight champion Isaac Chilemba is desperate to face champion Adonis Stevenson in a World Boxing Council title fight. Chilemba is the current WBC number one light heavyweight contender, and has expressed his frustration to worldboxingnews. net as the talented fighter patiently awaits his opportunity to fight current champion Stevenson. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3744,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions\/3744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}