The date and venue of the final of the WBSS with the participation of the former sparring partner Golovkin are announced – Boxing News

According to ESPN, the last match will take place on September 28 in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). Previously, it was badumed that the fight could take place outside the UK, even if the two finalists were British.

Initially, the fight was scheduled for June 2 in London, but the fight was postponed because of one of the finalists. Groves injured his shoulder in the semifinal battle with [Jubenka Junior] and he had to postpone the operation.

Later information appeared that Chris Eubank Jr., would replace Groves in the final. because it will not have time to recover at the scheduled time.

The organizers of the WBSS have not explained why they did not want to fight between two British boxers in the territory of the misty Albion, but it seems that investors from Saudi Arabia have offered more money.

In Jeddah, in May, he was to pbad the WBSS final at the first heavyweight between Alexander Usik (14-0, 11 KO) and Murat Gbadiyev (26-0, 19 KOs), but the Ukrainian boxer was injured by an elbow and the fight was moved to Moscow. As a result, on July 21, Usik won by unanimous decision and became the absolute world champion in the first heavyweight division (WBC, WBA Super, IBF and WBO), as well as the title holder of The Ring and Muhammad Ali magazine. Trophy Cup. Groves in 2014 was a sparring partner of Kazakhstan's Gennady Golovkin (38-0-1, 34 KOs), who holds the WBC title, Super WBA and IBO Middleweight. Working with GGG Briton called "the worst experience in life."

In this Eubank in 2016 was close to the battle with Golovkin, but the negotiations broke down because of the puffed claims of the British boxer's father. As a result, a Kazakhstani in London in September met another Briton – Kell Brook (36-2, 25 KOs), which GGG defeated in advance and broke that orbit.