By Per Ake Persson
Kalmar - Armand Boxning Promotion, headed by former WBO middleweight champ Armand Krajnc, and Brandsofsports, joined forces for the first ever professional boxing show in this town. All fights were scheduled for four and here are the results:
Light heavyweight Rastgar Ismaeeli, 4-0-1, headlined and won a split decision over Serbian Robert Halas, 3-8. Ismaeeli was down in the second but kept his defence together in the remainder of the fight for a win on scores of 38-37 on two cards while Halas won on a score of 39-37 on one card.
Heavyweight Adrian Granat, 1-0, impressed in his pro debut and wore down Pole Patryk Kowoll, 2-10, with a steady body attack for a stoppage win at 2.00 of the second.
Jr. welterweight Suro Ismailov, 5-0, showed good hand speed against Polish spoiler Arek Malek, 13-61-4, and won clearly but got nowhere against the survivalminded veteran. It was scored 40-37 twice and 40-36.
Heavyweight Joel Larsson, 2-0, looked too heavy but it didn´t matter against a soft touch like Croatian Marko Vucevics, 0-2, and it was stopped at 1.55 of the second when the towel came in to rescue Vucevics.
Johanna Rydberg, 1-0, outscored Nevenka Mikulic, 1-2, over four twos. It was scored 40-36, 39-38 and 39-37.
Danish lightheavy Kristoffer Storm, 2-1, stopped Croatian Jesic Zeljan, 1-1-0, after 1.23 of the second. Zeljan took a standing eight count in the first and was second best all the way.
Swedish light heavyweight Sven Fornling, 1-0, made his prodebut and stopped Jova Puskas, 0-1, in the first of a mismatch.
Polish super middleweight Robert Talarek, 2-2-1, stopped Omid Zoharbi. 0-1 and in Sweden on a tourist visa while licensed in Croatia, in the second of the show opener scoring two knockdowns in the process.
