Bakole – Zhang could take place later this year

Turki Alalshikh, the chairman of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority, said that he is exploring a heavyweight battle between Martin Bakole (21-1, 16 KOs) and Zhilei Zhang (27-2-1, 22 KOs) that could take place later this year in Africa or China, where the fighters hail from, respectively.

Bakole is coming off a career-best win, a fifth-round TKO over Jared Anderson earlier this month. Zhang, too, is coming off a fifth-round TKO win over an American, a spectacular finish of former champion Deontay Wilder in June.

Bakole and Zhang are each 6-foot-6 and around 285 pounds.

“Who else is giving Bakole the opportunity?” Alalshikh said for “ESPN”. “This is his second fight with us in 10 months.”