Avtandil Khurtsidze Stops Sergey Khomitskiy in Minsk

by Alexey Sukachev

The biggest and the best Belarussian promoter Valery Kaplya staged a nice show tonight at boxing-famous Reactor club in Minsk, the capital of the state. Helping him to arrange the tournament were such notable names as Vadim Bukhkalov of Elite Boxing Promotions, Philippe Fondu of World Sports Promotions and the-last-but-not-the-least former world householder Ricky Hatton.

In a main event of the night, WBA #3 and WBO #9 hard-charging stocky (5'4'') middleweight Avtandil Khurtsidze (22-1-2, 13 KOs) of Kiev, Ukraine, by way of Georgia, stopped Belarussian Sergey Khomitskiy (22-8-1, 9 KOs) after six one-sided rounds. WBA I/C and EBA titleholder was considerably better all the way and forced Khomitskiy to retire after the sixth. The Belarussian was coming off a stoppage victory against well-known Brit Jamie Moore. There were no knockdowns.

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Rising European sensation Sergey Rabchenko (14-0, 10 KOs) made an easy and brutal work of Georgian Mikheil Khutsishvili (14-11-3, 5 KOs) stopping him with a thunderous left hook to the body at light miwwleweight limit.

Belarus went 3-1 with Georgia with the help of the light heavyweight Magomed Aripgadzhiyev (15-2, 9 KOs) and WBC #1, WBA #6 and WBO #9 super featherweight Sergey Gulyakevich (30-2, 13 KOs). Gulyakevich won a sixth-round unanimous decision over Georgy Mchedlishvili (6-3-1), while Aripgadziyev forced Georgy Aduashvili (10-7-1, 6 KOs) to retire after the first.

Also, in a battle of two unbeaten Ukraine-based super middleweights, Salambek Baysangurov (6-0, 3 KOs) outpointed Olexander Chervyak (8-1, 1 KO) unanimously over eight, and Vitaly Kopylenko (10-0, 3 KOs) got a points victory over trialhorse Sergey Navarka (7-28, 2 KOs).