Malawian World Boxing Council (WBC) number one contender, Isaac Chilemba, has been offered a similar position by International Boxing Federation (IBF).<\/p>\n
The development means Chilemba will have a shot at IBF world title, but he has to make a decision to accept or decline the offer by tomorrow.<\/p>\n
But the boxer is now in a dilemma since WBC already announced that he will be the first name down when a final eliminator is announced to eventually fight champion Adonis Stevenson for the title.<\/p>\n
This means Chilemba has two opportunities to fight in a world title and he has to decide which one to pick.<\/p>\n
According to worldboxingnews. com<\/em>, last week boxers Bernard Hopkins and Artur Beterbiev were named by the IBF to compete in a contest for a mandatory shot at Sergey Kovalev, although promoter Yvon Michel explained that only one of those offered accepted the fight.<\/p>\n \u201cThe American Bernard Hopkins (IBF #3) did not respond to the invitation for the IBF eliminator against Artur Beterbiev (IBF #2). The Swede Erik Skoglund (IBF #4) also refused the invitation,\u201d Michel told World Boxing News.<\/p>\n \u201cNext on the list is Isaac Chilemba (IBF #5) of Malawi. He has until Tuesday, August 11th at 5pm to respond to the invitation, although Artur accepted all three invitations in question.\u201d<\/p>\n Chilemba, however, said he had not yet been officially approached by IBF.<\/p>\n \u201cThe first time I heard about it was when I read the article today. At the moment we are waiting to hear news regarding the WBC eliminator, although nothing has yet been decided,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Should Chilemba ultimately decide against the Beterbiev fight by today, the next three in line are Andrzej Fonfara, Seanie Monaghan and Jean Pascal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Malawian World Boxing Council (WBC) number one contender, Isaac Chilemba, has been offered a similar position by International Boxing Federation (IBF). The development means Chilemba will have a shot at IBF world title, but he has to make a decision to accept or decline the offer by tomorrow. But the boxer is now in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7310","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\/7310","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=7310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7314,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7310\/revisions\/7314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}