The Franco-Senegalese boxer Souleymane Cissokho announced this Thursday, November 28 that he was postponing his WBC world welterweight semi-final, scheduled for Malabo in Equatorial Guinea on December 7, due to an injury to his right hand according to the press release from the organizers of the fight. The bronze medalist at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games was injured on Wednesday evening during his training in Paris, while preparing for his fight against the Lithuanian Egidijus Kavaliauskas, with a ticket to the final of the WBC World Championship at stake. welterweight (-66.678 kg). “ It’s obviously a disappointment not to be able to compete in this fight on the scheduled date, and what’s more in Africa, the continent where I was born, reacted Souleymane Cissokho, quoted in the press release. I have worked very hard over the last few months to prepare for this very important deadline. “At the end of examinations carried out Thursday morning, the boxer and the organizers of the fight made the decision to postpone the event, ” the date of which will be determined as soon as possible. The location of the fight, in Equatorial Guinea, will remain unchanged » we can read in the press release. Cissokho, 33, who has won all his professional fights (17) should have in Kavaliauskas (bronze medalist at the 2011 World Championships as an amateur) a formidable opponent, whose record is 24 victories, one draw and two defeats since He turned professional in 2012.
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