The deer travels to Munich on a private plane and his cook

The battle between Maira Briežis and Junior Dortikos, a Cuban living in the USA, is scheduled for Saturday night in Munich at the Plazamedia Broadcasting Center TV studio and will be held without the presence of spectators. Dorticos arrived in Germany last weekend, while Maira Briežis’ team spent the last training in Riga and left on Wednesday.

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“To minimize contact with people, we will go to Munich in a small six-seater private plane. We have also thought about Mairis having his own cook. The rest of the team will use the catering services in the hotel restaurant. It is not yet known whether we will be there alone or in a separate sector, but it is clear that the Dorticos team will live in similar conditions in another hotel, and the judges and officials in another. In fact, we will be limited in our movements so that there are as few places as possible where people gather. This does not mean that Deer will only be in the hotel room. We can go for a walk, there will be a press conference on the “Zoom” platform on Thursday, the official weighing procedure on Friday. There will be an opportunity to train in the gym, which will be specially disinfected before each arrival of athletes, ”Raimonds Zeps, manager of Maira Briežs, told Jauns.lv about the upcoming event in Munich.

Despite the recently introduced travel and quarantine restrictions, the Deer team has managed to complete the preparations for the fight in full, including attracting the intended sparring partners. In this respect, the work took place together with another Latvian boxer Richard Bolotnik, who will play the semi-final fight in the Golden Contract tournament against the British Jose Berton in Riga on Saturday, who has won 25 of 26 fights.

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“Mairis was in the best shape and ready to fight already in March. After its transfer, the load had to be reduced, but the shape had not to be lost. Mairis was about 40 percent ready for his best condition, so he could prepare quickly when he learned the new fight date. At the beginning of the re-preparation phase, there were problems finding sparring partners. The adopted law that athletes do not have to go in isolation after the tests helped a lot. This made it possible to attract high-quality assistants. Boxing is a specific sport where everything depends on you. It was important to do your job and it seems to have worked. We can only imagine what the emotional background will be for the fight in a completely empty TV studio. We can’t really prepare for that, but in this respect, too, we tried to adapt the training to the expected conditions, ”reveals Zeps.

However, however Briedis wanted, this time it was too difficult to attract his first coach Vasily Chernihiv, who currently lives in Russia, due to travel restrictions. This cooperation remained at the correspondence level this time. The coach of the ring in Munich will be Dmitry Shiholay.

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Maira Briežis’ big fight will soon be in the television studio

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Deer and Dorticos will compete not only for the title of World Boxing Super Series named after Muhammad Ali, but also for the world champion belt in the IBF version and the title of “The Ring” for fights involving the first two boxers in the world weight category. Zeps reveals that due to the problems caused by the pandemic, the financial benefits for both athletes and organizers will be lower than promised before the start of the second season of the super series.