Astutely gave Karpency defence in Cardiff

WBO light-heavyweight champion Nathan Cleverly will take the following stride making a course for Bernard Hopkins when he protects his title in opposition to American Tommy Karpency following month.

The session will occur at Cardiff's Motorpoint Arena on Saturday, February 25, and Cleverly will trust it is the antecedent to a unification standoff with WBC lord Hopkins later in the year. Hopkins expressed on Tuesday that he could want to face "the WBO fella [Cleverly]".

Southpaw Karpency, 25, has won 21 of his 24 sessions, with one of his several massacres advancing in opposition to Karo Murat, who Cleverly has at present demolished in his job. Karpency's most up to date a few battle were in opposition to rivals with a consolidated 23 misfortunes, and unequivocally 13 wins in the middle of them.

He is not catalogued in the top 15 of the light-heavyweight rankings on the WBO site, which were final overhauled in December. Cunningly can be making the third defence of the title he asserted in May 2011 when Jurgen Braehmer was constrained to abandon.

"This is my first battle in Cardiff for an extended time and I'm looking forward to putting on an exceptional indicate for my fans in opposition to Karpency," expressed Cleverly. "I've prepared over Christmas and I'm fit as a fiddle at present and we're still over seven weeks at a distance from the battle so I'll be spot on come battle night.

"Karpency looks similar to a strong contender and he took Murat the separation and Murat gave me a hard battle."

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