The start of the first boxing world championship in history is beckoning. The tournament will have four 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. All the action will be broadcast live on DAZN.
Today the WBC shared the list of participants in the 160lbs division:
Australia (2): Dylan Joshua Biggs, Jude Vincent Grant
Canada (1): Derek Pomerleau
China (2): Wang Dacong, Ahan Telieke
Colombia (2): Yhan Carlos Sinisterra Palacios, Isaac Gillermo Torres Busnegos
Francia (2): Ephrem Hodray Bariko Nzingoula, 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, Jose Ramon Montes Zubiate
Nigeria (1): Adeyemo Rasheed Opeyemi
Netherlands (1): Alla Almahmoud
UK (2): Sean Arkwright, Hamza Azeem
Romania (1): Claudiu–Gheorghe Ienci
Turkey (1): Serkay Comert
Ukraine (5): Ishtvan Herzheni, Ustian Liparit, Dmytro Rybalko, Maksym Molodan, 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
Tickets will be distributed free of charge by registering at the following link: https://webook.com/en/events/wbc-boxing-grand-prix-tickets-564783