IBF bantamweight champion Ryan Burnett will fight WBA titleholder Zhanat Zhakiyanov on October 21 at the SSE Arena in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Burnett claimed the IBF belt in June with a one-sided points win over Lee Haskins, which was incorrectly scored as a split decision after one judge mixed up the two fighters before the verdict was later corrected to unanimous. Now the Belfast man will battle Kazakh boxer Zhakiyanov in a bantamweight world title unification clash.
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