Exclusive Albert Selimov’s amateur boxing star opened only to World Boxing News on days after Nemesis Vasiliy Lomachenko retired.

Selimov will forever remain the only Lomachenko amateur amateur album, which reads 396-1. This is Selimov, who defeated the Ukrainian champion at the Amateur World Championships in 2007.

The victory, built into boxing folklore, appeared again to the surface when Lomachenko confirmed the end of his career.

Lomachenko said: “My dear boxing fans around the world. You’ve always supported me with passion and have experienced unforgettable fights for over a decade.

“I hope you still love and respect this sport as passionately, because a man who enters the ring risks his health because of his family” when he hung up his gloves for good.

Loma output caused digging, and thanks to some long -term connections in sport WBN contacted Selimov.

Albert Selimov retired Lomachenko

The 39-year-old gracefully answered and only passed these thoughts of Worldboxingnews.com in retired Lomachenko.

Selimov said WBN: “I think Lomachenko did not retire me.

“I think I can do more than what I do (against Lomachenko), but now it is his choice to retire. He is the best in world boxing and I can say that we fought good fights.”

Despite lomchenko losing at the Olympic Games in 2008 in the Mission of Vengeance, their paths never exceeded after Selimov lost the rubber match five years later.

Olympic goal

After he did not qualify for the 2012 games in London, Selimov moved to Azerbaijan to compete at the World Series of Boxing.

Selimov managed to create the 2016 Olympic Games for its recent nation in Rio after winning European gold and world silver medal in 2015.

He was one of the favorites who went to the tournament, but lost to the French Sofiane Oumha in the quarter -finals. Despite the relatively teenage age for the boxer, Selimov decided that it was time to bow.

About whether he retired too early and he should have pressed 2020 games, Selimov said: “No, I didn’t think I went too early. Everything has time, and after 2016 it was my time.”

To sum up a comment on world boxing and Gennadiya Golovkin, saving the future of Olympic boxing for La 2028, Selimov said: “I think it’s boxing.

“I think it’s boxing and I think it will always be saved. Because without boxing the Olympic Games will not be the Olympic Games.

“We know that boxing is the best sport,” he added.

Golovkin joined the World Boxing as an ambassador and played a significant role in keeping boxing in the Olympic sports cycle.

Life after boxing

By retiring in 2016 at 30, Selimov relied on the possibility of spraining professionals and updating WBN about his current situation.

“Now I am a businessman and I assist teenage athletes become better,” explained Selimov, who asked WBN why he never became a professional.

“I wanted to become an Olympic champion, and because I wanted to take a gold medal,” he replied.

When the box is still developing, Selimov seems quite cheerful, passing on his knowledge to the next generation of sports teenage people.

The veteran is safe and sound, knowing that he has assured his place in the history of boxing without Lomachenko statistics.

Ending his career with 236 wins and 17 losses in the vest, Albert Selimov is a legend in itself and has an advantage full of medals to prove it.

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The most valuable promotions (MVP) and Golden Boy Promotions have announced today the remaining preliminary fights for the event Jake Paul vs. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.

Paul vs Chavez emits live around the world on Dazn Pay-Per-View on Saturday, June 28, with the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, and Golden Boy Promotions served as an official licensed promoter. The event will be presented by Celsius Live Fit Indispensable Energy, also sponsored by the Event Ticket Center and Fansly.

The pretender is joined by a pretender to WBA Golden Boy, WBA North America Continental Champion and from East Los Angeles, John “Scrappy” Ramirez (14-1, 9 KO) in a 10-round fight for Super Flyight.

The invincible Golden Boy Victor Morales (20-0-1, 10 KO) star also joins the initial card in a 10-round fight about Super Feather compared to the former world champion Super Feather WBA Renee Alvarado (34-16, 22 KO).

2x 2x American American amateur master and the rising weight star Bantam, Alexander “Alley Cat” Gueche (7-0, 5 KO) also joins the introductory card vs. American Powerhouse and 4x of the American amateur champion, Vincent “The Beast” Avina (8-1-1, 7 Kos) in the 8-rounds of hersweight on 118 pounds.

The initial card will also include an invincible Member of Golden Boy, a former US team member, Joel Iriarte (7-0, 7 KO) vs. Perspective of Tanzania Yusuph “Mr. Mwanza” Memem (11-2, 8 KO) in the 8-round wagi duel. Tickets are now on sale via Ticketmaster.

Pretrender WBA No. 1 Golden Boy and the master of continental North America as well as from East Los Angeles John “Scrappy” Ramirez (14-1, 9 KO) will join the initial card in the 10-round fight for Super Flyight on 115 pounds. A talented amateur, Ramirez became the two -time national champion of Sugar Bert and took home the regional title of Golden Gloves and the title of southern California in 2018.

Ramirez, known for his solid crowd and relentless work ethics, trains with the Brickhouse Boxing Club in Los Angeles led by the well -known coach Julian Chuu and next to the Mexican champion WBO and WBA WBA Unified Cruiswight, Gilberto “Ramieza. Recently, in December 2024, he secured the dominant victorious victorious victorious. The decision on Efraim Bui.

Vancouver from Vancouver, Washington, the invincible Golden Boy Victor star “El Tornado” Morales Jr. (20-0-1, 10 Kos) joins the initial card after the dominant win of the TKO over Jose Ivan Guardado Ortiz in December 2024. Fighting.

Managua, former world champion of Super Feather WBA, former world champion of Super Feather WBA, Renee Alvarado (34-16, 22 KO), will try to give Morales Jr. His first defeat in the 10-round fight about the weight of Super Feather in the weight of 130 pounds on June 28, because he intends to show his talent on the global scene. Alvarado recently entered the ring in April 2025, when he suffered a unanimous decision -making loss for Geo Lopez.

2x 2x American American champion of American amateurs and the rising weight star Bantam, Alexander “Alley Cat” Gueche (7-0, 5 KO) also joins the introductory card to face the American Powerhouse and 4x American amateur master, Vincent “The Beast” Avina (8-1-1, 7 Kos) 118lbs.

Fighting with Long Beach in California, through Harbor City in California, Gueche recently extended his invincible run for the dominant stop of the Lito Dante veteran in January 2025. Thanks to his ability to combine precise and knockout power, Gueche strengthened his place as one of the most thrilling competitions in boxing.

Avina, which has 87.5% knockout indicator, will try to derail Gueche’s rush and additionally determine as the perspective of the highest level.

The invincible member of the Golden Boy team, Joel Iriarte (7-0, 7 KO), returns to the action on the initial card in the 8-round show in a welterweight in relation to the Tanzanian perspective of Yusuph “Mr. Mwanz” Metto (11-2, 8 KO).

Code from Bakersfield in California, Iriarte was one of the most decorated amateurs in the country, winning the amazing 17 national championships and three gold medals. From the time he lost a professional in March 2024, he made a dominant impression, ending each opponent in two rounds or less.

His latest trips against Marcos Leonardo Jimenez, his first time fighting in eight rounds, brought him the title of WBA Continental Gold Waiter. In the face of Dar-Ess-Salaam in Tanzania, through Mwanz in Tanzania, there will be a metam that will enter his second fight in the United States.

“MVP proudly provides one of the most set entrance cards in the latest memory, with a mix of emerging stars, world-class talent and pedigree of the master,” said Nakisis Bidarian, co-founder of the most valuable promotions.

“From the highest level of perspectives, such as his own Alexander Gueche MVP and Joel Iriarte, to proven names, such as President No. 1 WBA, John” Scrappy “Ramirez and Victor Morales Jr., Saturday, 28 June promises without interruption from the opening bell. Together with Jake Paul vs. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. Headlining, this event is real global boxing performances, and it all starts with the world.

“We are proud that we work with MVP to create a starred card that meets the elite salary at the level,” said Oscar de la Hoya, president and general director of Golden Boy.

“This composition is arranged with one of the hottest emerging stars in sport – which, I think, have what they need to become another huge names in boxing. From the beginning to the end, fans are waiting for an unforgettable night.”

Anthony Joshua and Jake Paul trade messages there and back, because their unlikely showdown apparently collects the shoot.

Paul, who missed a fantastic clash with Canelo Alvarez, called Joshua in March, claiming that the two -time world champion of heavyweight has no chin.

“The Problem Child” claims that the Watford man initiated his last interaction, responding to the video from his training on June 28 against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.

“It was nice, we have cordially”, 28-year-old TOD Sun.

“He told me today when I say” Lol “to one of my training clips, and then I sent him” Lol “.

“And I think like a child s *** talking, behind the scenes.

“But I have a lot of love for Anthony Joshua.

“I think that such things are comical and is a great guy and I think that the fight between us would be amazing and I believe that I can win.”

Joshua has left the ring since he suffers from a destructive Fifth round loss of knockout Daniel Dubois on the stage of Wembley.

Since then, the 35-year-old Bone has moved away because of his elbow injury, and at the beginning of this week his promoter, Eddie Hearn, claimed that he could withdraw from sport next year and hopes that Tyson Fury would reverse his retirement to a long-term hit.

“AJ would be outside the ring just over a year before he returned to the ring,” said the 46-year-old The Ariel Helwani Show.

“It will get off the operation. I don’t think the Fury will be ready to fight at this time.

“But I expect it to be someone who will prepare him for a really great fight in 2026, and probably 2026 will be his last year in sport.

“It is probably three fights.

“If I advise AJ, we came back this year, we have two fights of Tyson Fury, what else?

“Maybe fight Daniel Dubois, but I think that for me, when AJ fights with Tyson Fury, he is a child made everything.

“I love him to have another rupture in Dubois and I would like him to have another crack in Uyk, but you just go on.

“Now, if we get to next year and he still shoots all cylinders, 2026 won not his last year.

“But for me something is right that he will come back this year, beating Tyson Fury twice and flows to the sunset.”