Dylan Biggs targets WBC Silver middleweight title in Queensland

Dylan Biggs will face unbeaten Turkish boxer Kenan Güzel for the WBC Silver Middleweight Championship on August 30 at the Ipswich Turf Club in Queensland, Australia. The bout gives the Australian an opportunity to move closer to a World Boxing Council world title.

Biggs enters the fight after winning the WBC Boxing Grand Prix at middleweight. He defeated his opponent in the final over eight rounds by unanimous decision, claiming the José Sulaimán Trophy and the title opportunity attached to the tournament.

The Grand Prix was created from the vision of former WBC president José Sulaimán and brought together emerging fighters in a competition held in Saudi Arabia. Biggs opened his campaign with a unanimous-decision win over Hamza Azeem before recording the same result against Ciril Johnson.

His quarter-final against unbeaten Ukrainian Petro Frolov was the most forceful performance of the run. Biggs controlled the contest, put Frolov down in the fifth round and still finished the fight by unanimous decision. He followed that result by beating France’s Lancelot De la Chappelle in the semi-finals, using accurate punches, movement and control of distance to reach the final.

The tournament success continued a rapid professional rise that began in March 2021, when Biggs stopped Rachan Klomgleang by technical knockout in the first round. Five fights into his career, he won the Australian National Boxing Federation super welterweight championship with a unanimous-decision victory over Mirko Pizzi.

Biggs will now try to add the WBC Silver belt to that record against Güzel. The Queensland contest represents his next test after a Grand Prix campaign in which every victory came by decision except for the knockdown he produced against Frolov, and it places him nearer the world championship goal he has pursued since breaking through in Australia.