On February 3, 2018, Murat Gassiev (25-0, 18 KOs), the cruiserweight IBF champion, and the cruiserweight WBA (Unified) champion Yuniel Dorticos (22-0, 21 KOs), meet in a title-unification fight.
Murat Gassiev is coming in to the fight on a 25-fight win streak with a 72% KO rate; his last fight was a 3rd round KO victory over Krzysztof Włodarczyk, 3 months and 13 days ago. Yuniel Dorticos is on a 22-fight win streak with a 95% KO rate, with his last fight being a 2nd round KO win over Dmitry Kudryashov, 4 months and 11 days ago.
This should be a confident win for Murat Gassiev at 99-1 winning odds. Yuniel Dorticos really doesn't have much to present against Gassiev.
Murat Gassiev stopped Yuniel Dorticos via TKO in the final round of the 12-round world-title fight and unified the IBF and WBA (Unified) cruiserweight titles. Gassiev improves his record to 26-0 (19 KOs), while Dorticos adds a loss to his record at 22-1.