By Alexey Sukachev
Oleg Zhadobin, Andrey Bazdrev and their partners at Boxing Academy Gym will stage their second local card on June 22 in Luzhniki, Moscow, Russia. As always, the card will be a nice mixture of established professionals and recent debutants. Other promoters, most notably World of Boxing, will contribute to the event.
In a featured fight of the night, recently crowned IBO light welterweight champion Eduard Troyanovskiy (21-0, 18 KOs), 35, who rides an eleven-fight knockout streak since April 2012 (including a stoppage over former WBA champion Jose Alfaro) will fight upset-minded Filipino Ronald Pontillas (17-7-3, 8 KOs) in a ten-round non-title affair.
Pontillas, 25, is coming off a KO loss to Daud Yordan in Indonesia but has a memorable road kayo against then-undefeated 12-0, 12 KOs, Japanese Masao Nakamura in 2011.
Another fighter, who will be seen in a ten-rounder, is former Azerbaijani amateur standout Ramal Amanov (7-0, 1 KO). His opponent is yet to be announced. Perhaps, the biggest talent on the card is heavyweight Sergey Kuzmin (2-0, 1 KO). A 27-year old former two-time Russian (2010 and 2011) and one-time European (2010) heavyweight champion will test himself over eight rounds against Brazilian Marcelo Luiz Nasimento (17-9, 15 KOs) over eight rounds. Kuzmin is managed by Vadim Kornilov.
Other bouts:
Vladimir Goncharov (4-0, 3 KOs) vs. Bernard Adie (12-3, 8 KOs) – 8 rounds, heavyweights
Alexander Filichkin (13-1, 4 KOs) vs. Valere Essomba Ngono (1-6) – 8 rounds, welterweights
Vladimir Kelesh (1-0, 1 KO) vs. Igor Pylypenko (4-21-2, 1 KO) – 6 rounds, cruiserweights
Mais Ayrapetyan (1-0) vs. TBA – 6 rounds, super middleweights
Kirill Samodurov (1-0) vs. Talat Sharipov (2-1, 1 KO) – 4 rounds, light heavyweights