Malawi boxer Isaac Chilemba will have to fight in an eliminator before facing WBC champion Adonis Stevenson.<\/p>\n
The South Africa based in-form light-heavyweight, is set to return to action this month according to worldboxignews. com. <\/em><\/p>\n Chilemba last fought in March in a fight he ended Vasily Lepikhin\u2019s undefeated record.<\/p>\n The \u2018Golden Boy\u2019 has been very vocal in calling on Stevenson to give him an immediate shot at the title.<\/p>\n WBC President, Mauricio Sulaiman, confirmed that Chilemba will eventually be able to earn the chance outright.<\/p>\n \u201cThe World Boxing Council is going to announce a final elimination bout and that includes Isaac Chilemba. The thing is, Sergey Kovalev was the mandatory so we were left without a mandatory when he pulled out of purse bids to fight Adonis Stevenson,\u201d Sulaiman told World Boxing News.<\/p>\n \u201cThe elimination fight should be done in July as we have a review due on the half-year report. Everything has been transparent, it\u2019s an open floor. We release it, we show it and we comply. This will be the case when that elimination is final.\u201d<\/p>\n Chilemba has since expressed his relief at the WBC\u2019s recent ruling.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ll be a very happy man when the WBC do that. I\u2019ll finally get that chance I deserve as the number one contender,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m fighting now on 25th July on the Kovalev vs Mohammedi card, but my opponent is not yet confirmed. I\u2019ll love to go for the WBC belt in my next fight as I want to fight Adonis Stevenson.\u201d<\/p>\n Chilemba\u2019s foe for his upcoming ten-rounder at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas will be officially revealed by his promoter Kathy Duva over the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Malawi boxer Isaac Chilemba will have to fight in an eliminator before facing WBC champion Adonis Stevenson. The South Africa based in-form light-heavyweight, is set to return to action this month according to worldboxignews. com. Chilemba last fought in March in a fight he ended Vasily Lepikhin\u2019s undefeated record. The \u2018Golden Boy\u2019 has been very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5506","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\/5506","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=5506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5516,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5506\/revisions\/5516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}