Despite becoming the undisputed superweight champion in history, Avarez is still eager to make history by engraving his name once again in the history of professional boxing.
Last November, the P4P star won four super-middleweight titles, while the 31-year-old boxer is keen to become the first Mexican-American boxer to win a world championship in five different weight classes.
Avarez's chief coach and manager, Eddy Reynoso, offered to give Avarez a weightlift at the WBC annual meeting to challenge the current WBC weightsmithist Ilunga Makabu. The move began to surprise WBC Chairman Mauricio Sulaiman and the entire board, but everyone agreed to let them play. However, before Avarez can get this opportunity, Makabu must first defend his gold belt against Mkunu in the jan. 29 match. The winner of the match will continue to face Avarez.
It's unclear whether the Mexican star's move into the subweight is temporary or permanent. However, if permanent, former uncontroversial sub-heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk has said he will be willing to return to sub-heavyweights against Avarez.
In an interview with BoxingInsider.com, Uzik said: "Yes, I can fight him in secondary weight. The only thing is that my gold belt is heavyweight. I go to the heavyweight race, then I play against Avarez and then I go back to the heavyweight and I want to stay in the heavyweight. ”
The 34-year-old Ukrainian has not only won all the world championships in all four organizations in the 18 years since 2016, but will also win the World Boxing Super Series. From there he started to rise to the heavyweight class.