Per-Ake Persson WBC Interim heavyweight champ Agit Kabayel (27-0, 19 KOs) stopped big Pole Damian Knyba (17-1) in round three in Oberhausen on Saturday night, overcoming a bad start in the first when he walked into a few hefty right uppercuts and was cut over the left eye. In the second round the champion, on […]
Per-Ake Persson Germany Croatian heavyweight Petar Milas (20-1) scored the biggest win of his ten-year career by stopping German Granit Shala (18-2) 1.29 of the tenth round and won the IBF International title on Saturday night in Oberhausen, Germany. Shala showed quick hands but was outworked by Milas, who appeared to be in excellent shape […]
Per-Ake Persson Cuban Jadier Herrera (18-0) based in Dubai, stopped Panamanian veteran Ricardo Nunez (26-8) to win the WBC interim title in the eighth round but it wasn’t easy. Herrera, a southpaw, looked good in the first but late in the round he was off balance and got caught by a right hand and went […]
Per-Ake Persson Cruiserweight Oronzo Birardi (10-0) opened Queensberry´s (along with Goldstar and Top Rank) big show at the Rudolf Weber Arena in Oberhausen on Saturday night by knocking out Serbian Miloslav Savic (9-11-1) 59 seconds into the fourth round. It was scheduled for ten. WBA Intercontinental middleweight champ Gleb Bakshi (6-0) impressed in stopping Mexican […]
Per-Ake Persson Lithuanian welter Evgidijus Kavaliauskas (25-3-1) has relinquished the EBU title. The EBU had set purse bids for January 8 for Kavaliuskas’ mandatory defence against Belgian Anas Messaoudi (17-0-1). The winner of a Kavaliauskas vs Messaoudi fight would then have Spaniard Samuel Molina as a mandatory challenger. Molina (25-3-1) lost the title to Kavaliauskas […]
