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Barthelemy vs. Relikh II For Vacant WBA Title on Garcia-Lipinets

On Saturday, February 10 live on SHOWTIME, at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, two-division world champion Rances Barthelemy will face Kiryl Relikh in a rematch of their May showdown on SHOWTIME, this time for the vacant WBA 140-pound world title.

The fight will be the co-feature to three-division world champion Mikey Garcia attempting to win a world title in a fourth weight class when he challenges unbeaten IBF 140-pound world champion Sergey Lipinets

The doubleheader of title bouts in the wide-open 140-pound division sets the stage for a potential unification match.

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Tickets for the event, which is promoted by Ringstar Sports and TGB Promotions, are priced at $250, $75, $50 and $20. Tickets will go on sale next week and will be available at Ticketmaster.com.

Barthelemy (26-0, 13 KOs), who was born in Arroyo Naranjo, Cuba and now lives in Las Vegas, has won world titles at 130 and 135 pounds. He defeated Relikh by unanimous decision in his debut at 140 pound in his last fight on May 20. If he defeats Relikh again, he will become the first Cuban boxer to win world championships in three different weight classes.

He defeated Argenis Mendez by unanimous decision to win the 130-pound world title in 2014 and a year later scored a unanimous decision over Denis Shafikov for the 135-pound world title. Barthelemy, 31, has two brothers, Yan and Leduan, who are professional boxers who he trains alongside with under the tutelage of Ismael Salas.

Relikh (21-2, 19 KOs) believes that he won the first match with Barthelemy and that the scorecards did not reflect the competitive nature of the fight. The 28-year-old nearly had Barthelemy out after landing a barrage of punches that penned Barthelemy on the ropes, but he was only awarded a knockdown. In the eighth round, Barthelemy came back to drop Relikh with a body shot.

Shortly after the May 20 title eliminator, the WBA ordered a rematch, this time to be contested for the vacant 140-pound title. This will be Relikh's second world title shot after the fighter from Minsk, Belarus lost a unanimous decision to Ricky Burns in Glasgow, Scotland on Oct. 7, 2016.
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Arum: Boxing Has Been Crying So Long For a Kid Like Jeff Horn!

Jeff Horn's rapid ascent to the top of world boxing is just the start of Dean Lonergan's ambitious plan to revive the sport in Australia.

The Duco Events boss is plotting for a fresh crop of fighters to follow the Horn blueprint and go from anonymous domestic battlers to rich international stars.

Two of them - Rohan Murdock and Nathaniel May - fought on the undercard of Horn's WBO welterweight title defence against Gary Corcoran on Wednesday night.

Both secured crushing wins that impressed Top Rank supremo Bob Arum so much they are in the frame for career-defining fights in the US next year.

"You are seeing the start of a rebirth," Lonergan said. "We're not interested in winning world titles - that's just part of the deal.

"We want to produce fighters to become great sportsmen for this country and produce great sporting moments and become legends.

"We started it three years ago by signing Jeff Horn, progressing him, giving him the hard fights, building a relationship with Bob, who's got an amazing platform through ESPN.

"There's a lot of talent here that's just got to be developed correctly." Murdock, 25, is a perfect example.

The Gold Coast super middleweight hasn't lost for the past six years but is unknown to most Australian sports fans.

He's being lined up to fight two southpaws on the undercards of WBO champion Gilberto Ramirez's events next year in Texas and Mexico.

If he comes through unscathed, Lonergan wants to stage a world title fight between Ramirez and Murdock on the sands of Surfers Paradise.

Lonergan certainly isn't afraid to think big - it's understood he wanted to stage Horn's fight against Corcoran on Brisbane's Story Bridge but couldn't overcome the logistical hurdles.

Arum has bought into his vision and believes Murdock has a clean-cut look that could appeal to US audiences, just like Horn.

"I'm looking to make really good fights and the fact we could do the championship fight on the Gold Coast is really attractive," Arum said.

And he sees Horn as someone having the potential to become major superstar in the United States.

“He can be a major mainstream star in the US, “Arum said. “Boxing has been crying out for a kid like this for so long. He’s a great fighter, a good-looking, clean-cut schoolteacher married to his high school sweetheart. A lot of people in boxing don’t necessarily speak well or politely but butter wouldn’t melt in this kid’s mouth. He’s a great role model for young fighters.”
 
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