boxer Luis Ortiz for the vacant interim WBA World Heavyweight title on
Thursday, September 11.
Kayode Power, 31, who took his heavyweight bowlast December in a
second round TKO win over American journeyman Travis Fulton, has
quickly set his focus on the interim title evacuated by Russia's
Aleksander Povetkin on October 5, 2013.
The winner of the fight could in theory move a step closer to a
showdown with world Heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko.
In his recent fight, Kayode stopped American journeyman Jonte
Willisin the sixth round of action on January 10, 2014.
The WBA Championships Committee has as well passed a resolution to
allow Cuba's number 2-rated Ortiz, 35, officially contend for the
title, which in the past had been won by Mohammed Ali, Wladimir
Klitschko, Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield.
Kayode Power Has Won 19 of His Career Fights and Drawn One.
Kayode is currently ranked fifth in the WBA ratings with a fight
record of 20-0; 16 KOs, while Ortiz maintains 21-0; 18 KOs record.
Trained by the legendary Freddie Roach, Power, currently holds the
WBO, NABO and NABF Cruiserweight Championship belt and will look to
add the WBA heavyweight belt when both fighters meet at the Hard Rock
casino in Las Vegas next month.
The fight is however subject to change, if Golden Boy Promotions-
erstwhile marketers of Ortiz furnishes the WBA committee with an
official request for sanctions.
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