Former world heavyweight champion Murat Gassiev could hold his heavyweight debut on December 13th. According to reputable insider, The Athletic journalist Mike Koppinger, the Russian can appear on the undercard of the battle Daniel Jacobs - Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., reports Ossetia News.
“According to Lance Pugmeier, who spoke with Abel Sanchez, Murat Gassiev could make his heavyweight debut as part of this boxing night,” wrote Coppinger.
Athletes from South Ossetia won 11 medals at the international boxing tournament in Donetsk, in memory of the first head of the Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, and the victims of the war in Donbas. In the box of the boxers - four gold, one silver and six bronze medals.
According to the press service of the Committee on Youth Policy, Sports and Tourism, the winners of the International Tournament from South Ossetia are Soslan Alborov, Alan Dzagoev, Georgy Guchmazov, Marat Bagaev, Dmitry Bagaev and Guram Gagiev.
Five medals were won by the South Ossetian athletes in the qualifying tournament for the VII Joint Martial Arts World Championship, thereby winning trips to the World Championship, which will be held in October in Italy.
The qualifying tournament for the FKSR / ICLAS was held from September 21 to 25 in Anapa as part of the XII open All-Russian Games.
According to the Committee on Youth Policy, Sports and Tourism, the competition brought together more than 700 participants from 37 regions of the Russian Federation, Uzbekistan and South Ossetia.
A boxer from South Ossetia, Soslan Tedeev, won a major international tournament in the city of Guangzhou in China. As part of the tournament, he held two fights in four rounds. From the boxing club "Ariana" three Ossetian boxers participated in the tournament.
As the honored trainer of the Russian Federation and the Republic of South Ossetia, the coach of Tedeev - Vitaliy Slanov noted in the commentary to the Information Agency “Res”, Soslan performed excellently.
South Ossetian football team left for Lugansk, where it will hold a friendly match with the national team of the Lugansk People’s Republic. The game will take place on Saturday, August 24, at 15:00 on the eve of Miner’s Day, the press service of the Committee on Youth Policy, Sports and Tourism of the Republic reports.
According to the head coach of the South Ossetian team, Soslan Kochiev, there have been changes in the team.
General Secretary of the Boxing Federation of Russia Umar Kremlev during an interview with one of the Russian publications said that in recent years the number of boxers in Russia had grown by 15%. He has also noted that the popularity of boxing in North Ossetia has increased thanks to Murat Gassiev.
The World Junior Wrestling Championship is being held in Tallinn. Following the results of the fights, Alan Bagaev reached the final of the competition in the weight class up to 92 kg, reports the"15 region".
On the way to the decisive match, the Ossetian athlete defeated the rivals from Iran, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Germany.
In the key confrontation of the tournament, the Russian athlete will meet with the American Lucas Davison. It should also be noting that Alan Kudzoev won bronze medals in competitions in the weight class up to 70 kg.
The main fight of the evening, geographically beyond the scope of the Russia-China meeting, was a heavyweight duel in the category of over 91 kg between Tair Kelekhsaev (Tskhinval, South Ossetia) and Georgian Tamaz Zadishvili.
The Russia-China boxing match took place on Thursday in Vladikavkaz. As part of the tournament, 11 fights were held in the format of three rounds of three minutes and one 6-round fight. This is not the first time that Chinese boxers have come to Ossetia, where they successfully train with the famous coach Vitaly Slanov, reports "15-Region".
South Ossetian wrestler Arsamag Zasseev won the final bout with the Georgian wrestler Georgiy Chikhradze with a crushing score 10:0, winning the gold medal, and became the winner of the freestyle wrestling world championship among U-18 boys.
Before the competition, Arsamag Zasseev had a two-week training camp in Sochi as part of the Russian youth team. The wrestler performed in a weight up to 110 kilograms.
The first coach of the former world heavyweight champion Murat Gassiev Vitaly Slanov told about the state of health of Murat. It should be reminded, the boxer was forced to abandon the heavyweight debut, scheduled for July 27. The reason was another injury.
According to Slanov, Murat does not need surgery. A couple of weeks the athlete will spend in Germany for rehabilitation.