Lapin and Pudivitr battle for the WBA Continental belt in Riyadh
Polish-born Ukrainian Daniel Lapin (9-0, 3KO) and Portuguese-Mozambican Octavio Pudivitr (9-1, 4KO) will fight this Saturday at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for the WBA Continental light heavyweight-title.
It will be one of the preliminary bouts of the Ring Of Fire card, which features Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk and British Tyson Fury for all the heavyweight titles.
Lanky Lapin (1.98m), 26 years old from Kiev, comes into this bout on behalf of Usyk-17 Promotions, with slight favoritism in his favor based on his punching power and longer reach.
Southpaw Lapin is undefeated in nine bouts, the last three of which he won by knockout.
Pudivitr will have to work hard for the win. With a smaller stature (1.80) and 36 years old, he comes to his second fight outside his home Portugal.
“Tank” was unlucky in his first international outing, losing a unanimous decision to his opponent in Germany almost a year ago. It was his only setback in 10 fights.