
The start of the first boxing world championship in history is beckoning. The tournament will have 4 divisions: featherweight, super lightweight, middleweight and heavyweight. Each division will have 32 participants from different parts of the world.
The first stage of the tournament will be from April 17-20 at the BLVD City Global Theater in Ryadh, Saudi Arabia, it will have 64 fights of 6 rounds each, spread over the 4 days of the tournament.
Today we share the list of participants in the 160 lbs. division:
Australia (2): Dylan Joshua Biggs and Jude Vincent Grant.
Canada (1): Derek Pomerleau.
China (2): Wang Dacong and Ahan Telieke.
Colombia (2): Yhan Carlos Sinisterra Palacios and Isaac Gillermo Torres Busnegos.
Francia (2): Ephrem Hodray Bariko Nzingoula and Lancelot Marie-Ghislain Proton de la Chapelle.
Ghana (1): Samed Shakul.
Italy (1): Giovanni Sarchioto.
Ireland (1): Paul Ryan.
Jordan (1): Mohammad Ikrami Aref Issa.
Kazakhstan (1): Yelkhan Tabynbayev.
Morocco (1): Anas El Abid.
Mexico (4): Brandon Velazquez Ortega, Emiliano Aguillón Castro, Saulo Morales Saldivar y Jose Ramon Montes Zubiate.
Nigeria (1): Adeyemo Rasheed Opeyemi.
Netherlands (1): Alla Almahmoud.
United Kingdom (2): Sean James Arkwright y Hamza Azeem.
Romania (1): Claudiu – Gheorghe Ienci.
Turkey (1): Serkay Comert.
Ukraine (5): Ishtvan Herzheni, Ustian Liparit, Dmytro Rybalko, Maksym Molodan y Petro Frolov.
Uzbekistan (1): Kayimov Sukhrobjon.
Venezuela (1): Jeremy Alexander Alvarez Leon.
The following stages will follow in June, August, October and the grand final in December.
All stages of the Boxing Grand Prix will be broadcasted on DAZN: http://dazn.com/wbc
Tickets will be distributed free of charge by registering at the following link: https://webook.com/en/events/wbc-boxing-grand-prix-tickets-564783
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