By Alexey Sukachev
Russian light welterweight power hitter Eduard Troyanovskiy (26-1, 23 KOs) is looking carefully at the upcoming unification between WBC/WBO 140lb king Terence Crawford and unified Super WBA/IBF/IBO champion Julius Indongo of Namibia, which takes place on August 19.
“I’ll definitely fight one more time in 2017 but I don’t know whom”, revealed TBRB #10 Troyanovskiy his future plans to the TASS media agency.
“All the belts are at stake in the fight [between Crawford and Indongo]. I have no bad feelings or anger to the Namibian. It's the opposite, he is a great fighter, and I praise him. I’d definitely love to fight him in a rematch if he wins [over Crawford]”.
Ex-IBF/IBO light welterweight champion Troyanovskiy (no 37) was blitzed in just 40 seconds by the unheralded underdog and former Namibian Olympian Indongo in one of the greater upsets of 2016. He came back strong by finishing off former European champion Michele di Rocco in four rounds on July 1 in Moscow.
The Russian is rated #7 by the IBF and #8 by the WBA. He was riding a 15-fight kayo streak coming into Indongo fight.
Meanwhile, Indongo (22-0, 11 KOs) went on for another big win, outpointing three-division world champion Ricky Burns on his home turf in Glasgow this April.
The fight between Indongo and Crawford (31-0, 22 KOs) will go down in Lincoln, Nebraska, for all of the meaningful belts in this weight class.
IN OTHER NEWS: With a recent win over Marco Huck and capturing the WBC cruiserweight title, Mairis Briedis became a national hero in his native Latvia by becoming the first and only world champion from this tiny Baltic state.
The recent success produced some followers.
One of them is looking solid against limited opposition recently, despite being slightly older than Briedis.
Comes Nikolajs Grisunins. The Latvian (of the Russian origin) boxer scored yet another quick stoppage this past Saturday in a resort city of Jurmala. Grisunins (6-0, 3 KOs), who made his debut in December 2016, blitzed Romanian veteran Giulian Ilie (21-15-2, 7 KOs) in just one round.
Ilie suffered his ninth loss in ten latest fights and the fifth straight. The event was promoted by Jevgenijs Sapronenko of the LNK Boxing.