Promoter Tom Loeffler says he contacted PBC to allow them to know he’s focused on establishing a struggle between his fighter, Serhii Bohachuk, and former undisputed junior middleweight champion Jermell Charlo.
Fundora & Murtazaliev In The Combine
Loeffler can also be focused on matching Bohachuk in opposition to Tim Tszyu, WBC & WBO 154-lb champion Sebastian Fundora and IBF champ Bakhram Murtazaliev. He’s taking a shotgun strategy to maintain former WBC interim champ Bohachuk (25-2, 24 KOs) busy in 2025.
Whoever is probably the most brave of these 4 fighters will doubtless be the one which faces Bohachuk subsequent. You couldn’t blame former WBO 154-lb champion Tszyu if he selected to take a go at preventing Bohachuk. He was just lately destroyed by Murtazaliev by a third-round knockout on October nineteenth in Orlando, Florida, and he won’t need to bounce again within the ring with one other puncher so quickly.
Jermell (35-2-1, 19 KOs) has been on the sidelines since shedding to unified tremendous middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez on September 30, 2023, however he’s lastly chosen to return to the ring. He needs an enormous struggle. Whether or not he would really feel that Bohachuk can be appropriate is unclear.
It might come down as to if Turki Al-Shiekh was focused on getting concerned to assist make that struggle occur. Charlo has been out of the ring for 15 months, and he doubtless wouldn’t need to take a dangerous struggle in opposition to Bohachuk until it paid properly.
Bohachuk, 29, knocked out substitute opponent Ishmael Davis within the sixth spherical on the Tyson Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk 2 undercard on December twenty first in Riyadh. He appeared wonderful, pulling down Davis and forcing his nook to drag him out on the finish of the sixth.
Vergil Ortiz Jr. defeated Bohachuk by a 12-round majority choice on August 10, 2024, in a carefully contested struggle that might have gone in Serhii’s path.
“Serhii is form of just like the Ironman of the division – all the time there, all the time able to struggle,” promoter Tom Loeffler mentioned to Boxingscene about former WBC junior middleweight champion Serhii Bohachuk.
“He’s one of the vital thrilling fighters in boxing along with his knockout ratio being 96% and his curiosity in preventing anybody. At any time when he steps within the ring, he’s going to convey an thrilling struggle. He doesn’t thoughts getting hit a couple of instances with a purpose to ship his punches,” Loeffler mentioned.
