Heavyweight Fight Schedule

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Russian heavyweight Evgeny Romanov (12-0, 9 KOs) took less than two minutes of round one to destroy bigger Dillon Carman (14-4, 13 KOs) with a crushing right cross-left hook combo.

Romanov is best known for knocking out reigning WBC titleholder Deontay Wilder in 2008 while both were amateurs.

Here's the fight:

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Stiverne doesn't look like he trained much for today's fight.

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Going from the comments on this site I was expecting him to look way worse.

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Short video: Joyce stops Stiverne in round 6

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Ivan Dychko: Klitschko is much better than Wilder

http://boxingnews.com.ua/en/news/224...ruche-uajldera

Promising Kazakh heavyweight, two-time Olympic bronze medalist Ivan Dychko (7-0, 7 KO) shared his impressions of being in training camps of former and current world heavyweight champions – Wladimir Klitschko and Deontay Wilder.

On sparring with Klitschko: “I sparred with him in June of 2016. It was really great experience. I’ve participated in the 2012 Olympics, and if I had to compare at that time which is was more valuable to me - to be Vladimir Klitschko’s sparring partner or to participate in Olympics — I’d have chosen that it was better to be Klitschko's sparring partner. He is great, he is a legend, he is a champion of all champions. I always wondered how much I would pay to train in the camp with Wladimir Klitschko? And then I had the opportunity to train with him and get paid for it"

On sparring with Wilder: "I expected him to be better. I always compare (other boxers) with Wladimir Klitschko. Because after Klitschko’s camp my emotions were overwhelming. At Wilder's camp, I was like: “Oh, OK, and that’s all?” When we started sparring, I thought I would need to take his brutal right hand. And he did something... He has some skills, but I expected more. Sometimes I started to take it easier in the sparring with him, but only at the request of his trainer. His trainer told me: “Do not force up, be simpler”. So I let him to win our sparring on points. You need to know the specifics of this work. If I, an unknown boxer, would came and beat the champion, he would have begun to doubt himself. Their task is to prevent this. It happened when I beat Luis Ortiz in a sparring. If we compare Klitschko and Wilder, Deontay isn’t as good as Klitschko was, so it was much easier for me to box with him. Well, the training camp itself was organized worse for the sparring partners, for the fighters, and it was cheaper. In my opinion, I can beat guys like Wilder and Ortiz. I don’t even need to learn anything new to beat Wilder."

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Deontay Wilder set for May return with Dominic Breazeale the touted opponent after Tyson Fury rematch collapses

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Luis Ortiz: I want to be world champion

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https://twitter.com/MichaelBensonn/s...12467436290049

Eddie Hearn told US reporters he could offer Deontay Wilder $15 million to face Breazeale/Whyte/Kownacki next, so long as he signed to face Joshua (with two-way rematch) afterwards. He added that Wilder doesn't need to sign a co-promotional deal to fight on his DAZN shows.

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Weights for weekend heavyweight fights:

Tom Schwarz 241.2 vs. Kristijan Krstacic 210.1
Erik Pfeifer 241.8 vs. Angelo Rizzo
Peter Kadiru 244.1 vs. Artur Kubiak 225.3
Danilo Milacic 237.2 vs. Zheko Zhekov 233.5

Luis Ortiz 238.75 vs. Christian Hammer 257.5

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Joe Joyce is now scheduled to fight on the Deontay Wilder undercard on May 18.

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Joe Joyce is now scheduled to fight on the Deontay Wilder undercard on May 18.

I like that he's in the States again but he needs some major work. Heavyweight title fight platform is good exposure.