Sergej Sorokin Beats Villareal, Randall Bailey Next on 7/4

On the undercard to Danny William's knockout win over Konstantin Airich in Bilbao, Spain, rising light welterweight star Sergej Sorokin from Russia scored his 28th win in his 30th pro-fight (1 draw) by split decision against Argentinian veteran Juan Carlos Villareal who dropped to 39-9-1. Sorokin will face Randall Bailey in his next fight on July 4th in Istanbul, Turkey.

In other action;  

Middleweight prospect Mahir Oral scored a unanimous decision victory as well although his fight for the EBA interim championship against stable-mate Alexander Sipos was pretty close. Sipos dominated the first rounds before Mahir could take control. The judges scored the bout 115:113, 115:114, 116:113 in favour of the “Lion”.

Unbeaten heavyweight prospect Yakup Saglam raised his record to 14-0-0 including 13 KOs by stopping Mate Kubinyi from Greece in the 1st.

Middleweight contender Ruben Diaz scored a 5th round TKO over Jurijs Boreiko from Latvia while local hero Hector Moreira suffered his first loss in 21 pro-fights against Alexander Saltykov who stopped his Spanish opponent by TKO in the 2nd.