The new belt is dedicated to WBC founder - Mexican President Adolfo Lopez Mateos.
Armenian Vanes Martirosyan will face Kazakh Gennady Golovkin on May 5 in Los Angeles at StubHub Center.
As reported earlier, American-Cuban professional boxer Erislandy Lara successfully defended his WBA and IBO super welterweight titles with unanimous-decision win over Armenian fighter Vanes Martirosyan in 2016.
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