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WBC and WBA Junior Welterweight champion Danny Garcia (29-0, 17 KOs) and WBC mandatory challenger Viktor Postol (26-0 11 KOs) have agreed to a “step aside” agreement before an eventual fight between the two, according to a BoxingScene.com report by Ryan Burton.
The agreement comes just a few hours after a purse bid between the two was cancelled, signaling that Garcia had agreed to fight Postol in his next fight.
“There is a step aside agreement that we have almost finalized. Postol and Garcia will both get options to take other fights over the next 4 months and then Postol will again be in the mandatory position to fight the WBC champion,” said Postol’s manager, Vadim Kornilov, in the report.
Garcia has faced a lot of criticism after his controversial win over Mauricio Herrera in March and a second-round knockout win over an overmatched and unranked Rod Salka in August.
Viktor Postol begame Garcia’s WBC mandatory challenger after knocking out Selcuk Aydin in spectacular fashion in May at The Forum in Inglewood, California.
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