Agit Kabayel is finally boxing again in Germany: According to information from Sport.de, the WBC interim world champion in the heavyweight at the end of the year/early 2026 in NRW. There is speculation about the opponent. The box Bible “The Ring” brings an unbeaten Albanian into play, which Kabayel Manager has already mentioned as an option.
“My promoter queensberry, my manager Spencer Brown and all people around me accelerate at the maximum. It will be exciting, it will be big, it will be a homecoming event here in Germany,” Agit Kabayel recently announced on Instagram a fight against a home backdrop.
In two or three weeks, he hoped to announce more to the scene, battle date and opponents, according to the “Leberking” from Wattenscheid: “It will definitely be cool.”
“The Ring” reports that the details of Kabayels “Homecoming Event” are about to be done. The American boxing Bible Nelson Hysa names as a possible opponent – whatever sport.de-Information covers.
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Kabayel’s Manager Spencer Brown had brought the 1.96-meter guns from Albania in an interview with our editorial team at the end of July. “He thinks he can knock out agit,” said the Brit at the time about the unbeaten Hysa.
The “Albanian Adler” has been a prize boxer since 2022, 21 of his 23 fights he won prematurely. Most recently, Hysa boxed at the beginning of June: in Ipswich he beat the German Patrick Korte through technical KO in round two and secured the (insignificant) European Championship title of the WBO.
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So far, Kabayel’s promoter Frank Warren has announced that his agency Queensberry will “announce a fight in Germany in the next few weeks”. “I have promised him (Kabayel, editor’s note) that he is punching in his country and it will come.
Hysa fulfills this criterion “officially”. The 41-year-old ranked seventh in the world rankings at the WBA World Association, the WBO leads him to position nine. HSYA and Kabayel are also under contract with Queensberry – which also suggests that the Albanian gets a chance against Kabayel. In view of the fairly large Albanian community in Germany, Hysa could also be fed up with Hysa.
Hysa has an impressive co-quota of 91 percent, but has not yet beat an opponent from the expanded world top. The fact that he is among the top 10 with two world associations should be due to good contacts, against Kabayel Hysa would be stark outsiders despite a size advantage of five centimeters.
Kabayel’s search for opponents is difficult
From a purely sporting way, the fight in front of a home crowd for Kabayel is to be rated as a “Stay Busy fight”. The 32-year-old (in 26 fights unbeaten, 18th co-success) has been the WBC interim world champion and compulsory challenger from Oleksandr USYK since his liver-cloak over China colossus Zhang Zhang Zhang.
Kabayel vs. Hysa – Many box fans should be disappointed with the class difference. After sport.deInformation was difficult for the management of the German to get a reasonably marketable opponent at all.
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Lawrence Okolie, number 1 of the WBC and ex-cruiser weight world champion, had publicly challenged Kabayel. However, the Englishman is said to have called for an unrealistic fee for a duel with Kabayel in Germany. The British ex-champions Daniel Dubois and Anthony Joshua play in a price range that is too high anyway.
Bad Boy Derek Chisora would have been a sonorous name – but the veteran should not be willing to jeopardize his status as number 1 of the IBF.
The Congolese Martin Bakole apparently increases to a duel against Kabayel victim Zhang in the ring and is also not available. Ex-WBC world champion Deontay Wilder is flirting with a crossover fight against MMA star Francis Ngannou-a possible defeat against Kabayel would be not very helpful. So many options do not remain Kabayel – that’s how Hysa is coming.
For Kabayel it is about staying “active”, “to stay inside, stay in the flow, not get a ring rust”, as the district fighter at the end of June sport.de emphasized.
In the coming year, Kabayel could get his World Cup chance against world champion Usyk. However, the Ukrainian has to defend the WBO belt against the winner of the fight between Joseph Parker (New Zealand) and Fabio Wardley (England) on October 25th. Usyk itself will no longer box this year.