By Alexey Sukachev
Two top Polish promotional companies – 12 Round Knockout Promotions (led by Andrzej Wasilewski and Piotr Werner) and Babilon Promotion (led by Tomasz Babilonski) - recently combined their powers and staged a unified boxing event at Torwar Sports Hall in Warsaw, which is the Polish capital. The show turned out to be a WBC Baltic extravaganza, as Poland is quickly turning into the springboard country for this marginal organization, which has substantial difficulties in staging their events in Russia. This time no less than two belts were at stake in two different weight divisions.
In the main event, undefeated Polish light heavyweight and WBC #12 Pawel Glażewski (16-0, 4 KOs) got a highly controversial ten-round split decision over Frenchman Doudou N’Gumbu (26-3, 11 KOs) and defended both his WBC Baltic Silver and Polish International titles. Scores were identical 96-94 – twice for the Pole and once for N’Gumbu, who has suffered his third dubious career loss. He was previously defeated by Igor Mikhalkin and Isaac Chilemba in back-to-back fights via close decisions.
In a featured bout of the night, Russian welterweight Anton Novikov (22-0, 8 KOs) fought for the fourth time this year but also for the first time since suffering a bad injury to his right hand in May. Novikov acquired the vacant WBC Baltic title, at welterweight, by defeating Georgian David Makaradze (17-7, 8 KOs) on points over ten rounds. Two judges had it 100-90 – for Novikov, while the third judge awarded two rounds to Makaradze: 98-92.
Other notable results:
Krzysztof Cieslak (17-2, 5 KOs) UD 6 Johnny Antequera (11-8, 9 KOs)
Krzysztof Zimnoch (7-0-1, 6 KOs) TKO 3 Tony Visic (1-1-1)