by Tamas Pradarics
Felix Promotion International will be staging its first ever boxing card in Transsylvania, Romania this coming Friday with three of Felix Racz’s flagship fighters seeing in action in stay-busy non-title bouts.
In the main event, unbeaten middleweight prospect Balazs Bacskai will face Ukrainian Dmytro Semernin (13-4-1, 7 KO) in ten rounds. The former junior amateur world champion and European gold medalist Bacskai (5-0, 2 KO) is having his second ten rounder in his brief pro career that started last June. The first time the Budapest-native went ten frames was in his pro debut that he won against arch-rival Norbert Harcsa in a grudge match.
“I had a good training camp for this fight, something I am planning to prove against Semernin. As an amateur, most of my bouts were in abroad, so I believe I cannot have unknown feelings regarding fighting on foreign soil. I am looking forward to seeing lots of Hungarian fans in the attendance who will support me. I am planning to give a good performance to catch the attention and the sympathy of the neutral fans as well,” said Bacskai.
The 30-year-old prospect made sure his goal is to win a world championship and he is well on his way to put his name in the world ranks by the major sanctioning organizations.
Another former amateur world champ and crowd-favorite Flavius Biea will take on Georgian journeyman Jaba Shalutashvili (24-20-1, 12 KO) in an 8-round co-main event. This will be the return of the Romanian Biea (12-1, 6 KO) from his first loss among the pros he suffered last December against Valentyn Golovko in a WBC regional welterweight title.
Also, on the card will be three cruiserweight pugilists, Jozsef Darmos (8-2-2, 7 KO), Tamas Toth (9-5-4, 5 KO), and unbeaten Cezar Juratoni (7-0, 5 KO) against separated opposition in six-round bouts, as well as former amateur Hungarian champion and once member of the national team, Barnabas Hegyi who will have his pro debut.
The Friday event in Oradea is promoted by Felix Promotion International and will get televised live on M4 Sport in Hungary as well as on Digi TV in Romania.
You can reach Tamas Pradarics at pradaricst@yahoo.com and follow him on Twitter @TomiPradarics.
