Boxing-WBC heavyweight champion Kabayel's first defence confirmed for Duesseldorf on November 28WBC重量级拳王卡巴耶尔的首场卫冕战已确定于11月28日在杜塞尔多夫举行。
Oct 1 (Reuters) - Germany's Agit Kabayel will make the first defence of his WBC world heavyweight belt against unbeaten Albanian Nelson Hysa in Duesseldorf on November 28, promoter Frank Warren confirmed on Thursday.
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Oct 1 (Reuters) - Germany's Agit Kabayel will make the first defence of his WBC world heavyweight belt against unbeaten Albanian Nelson Hysa in Duesseldorf on November 28, promoter Frank Warren confirmed on Thursday.
Kabayel, 34, was declared the WBC champion after Ukraine's Oleksandr Usyk relinquished the belt last June.
Duesseldorf's 60,000 capacity Merkur Spiel Arena is close to Kabayel's hometown of Bochum but the fight will fall on Albanian independence day and Hysa, 42, can also count on strong support.
"This is the fight we wanted to make," said Warren in a statement ahead of a launch event next week, with the fight due to be live on DAZN.
"Agit Kabayel has rejuvenated the boxing market in Germany with his exploits in the heavyweight division and he will prove as much by defending his world title in front of over 60,000 fans in Duesseldorf on November 28."
Both men are managed by Warren's Queensberry Promotions but Hysa does not feature in the latest WBC rankings, although he is fifth in the WBA's list of contenders.
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin in LondonEditing by Christian Radnedge)
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10 月 1 日（路透社）——推广人弗兰克·沃伦周四证实，德国拳手阿吉特·卡巴耶尔将于 11 月 28 日在杜塞尔多夫迎战不败的阿尔巴尼亚拳手纳尔逊·希萨，进行他的 WBC 世界重量级拳王金腰带的首次卫冕战。
34 岁的卡巴耶尔在乌克兰拳手奥列克桑德尔·乌西克去年 6 月放弃 WBC 冠军头衔后，被宣布为 WBC 冠军。
杜塞尔多夫可容纳 6 万人的梅尔库尔竞技场距离卡巴耶尔的家乡波鸿很近，但这场比赛将在阿尔巴尼亚独立日举行，42 岁的希萨也可以指望得到强大的支持。
沃伦在下周的发布会前发表声明称：“这就是我们想要促成的比赛。”这场比赛将在 DAZN 上进行直播。
“阿吉特·卡巴耶尔凭借其在重量级拳击领域的出色表现，重振了德国的拳击市场。11月28日，他将在杜塞尔多夫超过6万名拳迷面前卫冕世界冠军头衔，以此证明这一点。”
这两位拳手都由沃伦的 Queensberry Promotions 公司管理，但海萨并未出现在最新的 WBC 排名中，尽管他在 WBA 的挑战者名单中排名第五。
（伦敦 Alan Baldwin 报道，Christian Radnedge 编辑）
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