Aliaksei Alfiorau will have the opportunity to become IBA Pro light heavyweight World Champion on home soil, as he competes in the main event of IBA.Pro 5 in Brest, Belarus.

Alfiorau (2-1), who won a silver medal at the 2021 IBA Men’s World Boxing Championships, will be aiming to continue the impressive form from last year when he defeated Artem Ageev of Russia by technical knockout at IBA Champions’ Night in Serpukhov. As well as being a World silver medallist, he has a silver medal from the 2024 European Championships too. In a bid to end the night in a positive manner for the home crowd, he must defeat Lee Ingelrest of Belgium (12-0-1), who is still undefeated.

Russia’s Pavel Silyagin (15-0-1) and Carlos Gongora of Ecuador (22-3) will also be on the main card in the light heavyweight division, fighting over eight rounds, compared to the 10 in the main event. Silyagin last fought in September, beating Ulugbek Sobirov of Uzbekistan over 10 rounds in Chelyabinsk to win the IBF Inter-Continental super middleweight title. Gongora, the former IBO World super middleweight champion, has a tremendous knockout rate of 17 from 22 wins.

Alexander Rodionov of Belarus will also be on the main card in the 71kg division, facing Russia’s Artem Oganesyan (13-1). Oganesyan has been fighting out of Canada for most of his professional career and has 11 stoppage wins to his name.

On the undercard, Uladzislau Smiahlikau from Belarus, who represented his country at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, meets the undefeated Chapiteau Dimuntu of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (4-0) at 92kg. Dimuntu will be fighting in Europe as a professional for the first time.

In the women’s 52kg division, World bronze medallist Yulia Apanasovich will be hoping for a home win, but must defeat Russian veteran Elena Saveleva (9-1), the 2010 World champion and two-time European gold medallist. Saveleva last won professionally in May against Halima Vunjabei of Tanzania, in Moscow.

Finally, Belarus’ Denis Solotskikh, who has represented his country as an amateur at the World and European Boxing Championships, will go six rounds with Namibia’s Immanuel Josef (16-4-1) in the 54kg division.

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