Jamny Kumande Wins Tough on Rocchigiani Promotions Card
By Per Ake Persson
Berlin, Germany - Rocchigiani Promotions staged it´s first show tonight at the Huxley´s Neue Welt in Berlin with a packed house. Light heavyweight Jamny Kumande (4-0) headlined in a six-rounder against Morris Markowitsch (2-3-1) in what was billed as "Top prospect vs. Top Underdog" and it turned out to be one hell of a fight that went back and forth. Kumande, a southpaw, was the much better boxer but lost his head a bit when Markowitsch just kept coming and it looked at times as if the "top Underdog" would prevail.
Both men were rocked and both were bleeding heavily from their respective noses but early in the final round. Kumande sealed a close but deserved win when he floored Markowitsch with a left. The "top prospect" had some pretty solid cornermen in Graciano and Ralf Rocchigiani and Michel Trabant.
Female flyweight Plamena Dimova (3-0) outscored the much bigger Aida Halac (5-1) over six in of the toughest female fights witnessed by this reporter. Halac made a street fight of it and Dimova wasn´t strong enough to hold her opponent off.
Welterweight Karim Gashi (7-0) retained the GBA Version of the German title with a unanimous decision over Pietro D´Alessio (11-23-1). It was scored 99-91 twice and 97-94 in a fight that never really took off. Gashi controlled the action but posed too much and paced himself carefully against a durable and tough opponent.
Heavweight Mo Soltby (10-0) stopped Hungarian Laszlo Hubert (42-18-1) in the second. Soltby is trained by former WBC champ Juan Carlos Gomez and looks good. Hubert protested the stoppage and even danced on one leg to show he was allright but the referee, former heavyweight contender Timo Hoffmann stood by his decision to call it off.
