Boxing results: Mairis Briedis books Oleksandr Usyk fight

Mike Perez

WBC cruiserweight champion Mairis Briedis defended his world title against Mike Perez on Saturday (September 30). Fighting at the packed Arena Riga in Riga Breidis came through a scrappy clash with the Cork-based Cuban, prevailing by unanimous decision.

Breidis won 116-110 for Fernando Barbosa, 115-111 for Juan Carlos Payano and 114-112 for Fabian Guggenheim.

This was a cruiserweight quarter-final in the World Boxing Super Series. Briedis victory books him in for a daunting semi-final against Oleksandr Usyk. This will be a unification for the WBO and WBC world crowns. Usyk defeated common opponent Marco Huck in his quarter-final.

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World Boxing Super Series fights are coming thick and fast. At super-middleweight Chris Eubank Jr boxes Avni Yildirim on October 7 in Stuttgart and the following week George Groves defends his WBA super-middleweight title against Jamie Cox in London.

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