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title: "Sauerland Keen On Making Briedis V Riakporhe World Title Fight"
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language: "en-GB"
author: "Shaun Brown"
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published: "2022-06-13T10:53:23Z"
modified: "2022-06-13T11:15:10Z"
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# Sauerland Keen On Making Briedis V Riakporhe World Title Fight

Mairis Briedis promoters Sauerland are interested in making a fight between the Latvian and Richard Riakporhe.

On July 2 the IBF champion [will make a rearranged mandatory defence of his title](https://wp.boxing-social.com/news/briedis-title-defence-in-australia-postponed/) Down Under against Australian Jai Opetaia. Briedis had been rumoured to be moving up to heavyweight and there had also been speculation linking him [to a cruiserweight unification against WBO champion Lawrence Okolie](https://wp.boxing-social.com/news/briedis-and-okolie-can-fight-in-the-summer-says-kalle-sauerland/).

However, after [Riakporhe’s crushing finish over Fabio Turchi at the weekend](https://wp.boxing-social.com/news/riakporhe-crushes-turchi/) the Sauerland brothers not only congratulated the Brit on his IBF eliminator win but talked up a bout between him and Briedis via [Twitter](https://twitter.com/SauerlandBros).

> “Congrats @R\_Riakporhe… so this was an eliminator for the divisions’ #1 Briedis. We don’t need to wait. Take care of business down under on July in our mandatory and then it’s GAME ON! #BriedisRiakporhe.

> Congrats [@R\_Riakporhe](https://twitter.com/R_Riakporhe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)….so this was an eliminator for the divisions #1 Briedis ??….we don’t need to wait. Take care of business down under ??on July 2 in our mandatory and then it’s GAME ON! [#BriedisRiakporhe](https://twitter.com/hashtag/BriedisRiakporhe?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [https://t.co/jiuNWICSYs](https://t.co/jiuNWICSYs)
>
> — Kalle & Nisse Sauerland (@SauerlandBros) [June 12, 2022](https://twitter.com/SauerlandBros/status/1536067070059765760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

Minutes after posting that tweet the Sauerlands pressed the matter some more.

> …so ⁦[@R\_Riakporhe](https://twitter.com/R_Riakporhe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)⁩ ⁦[@boxxer](https://twitter.com/boxxer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)⁩ and ⁦[@SkySportsBoxing](https://twitter.com/SkySportsBoxing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)⁩ are u really for real? Or is it a PR stunt with the eliminator. Nowhere to run…and certainly no place to hide 3 time World Champ, ⁦[@ringmagazine](https://twitter.com/ringmagazine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)⁩ champ and ⁦[@WBSuperSeries](https://twitter.com/WBSUPERSERIES?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)⁩ champ Mairis Briedis. [pic.twitter.com/r7PDOnfDGZ](https://t.co/r7PDOnfDGZ)
>
> — Kalle & Nisse Sauerland (@SauerlandBros) [June 12, 2022](https://twitter.com/SauerlandBros/status/1536070389616594944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

Following Riakporhe’s win on Saturday promoter Ben Shalom talked up his fighter’s chances of becoming a world champion and hoped to secure him a world title fight this year.

In the current IBF world rankings Riakporhe is at number 12 but the undefeated contender will likely move towards the top 5 when their new ratings are published soon.