On Saturday evening there was big - in quantity - show in Shkoder, Albania. In one of the prelims, featherweight Ardit Murja (4-1 going into the fight) took on Bulgarian Isus Velichkov (0-5).
The fight started with the two feeling each other but soon it´s evident that Velichkov´s legs were beginning to desert him. Murja then scores with a decent left jab and Velichkov at first doesn´t seem to react but then stumbles backwards and goes down in his corner and is fully out cold. Medical staff rushed in, but he could not be revived. He was 21-years old.
In this case it doesn´t appear that the cause of death was a punch to the head in the actual fight and Velichkov had gone the distance in his previous five professional fights and while he had lost all five it didn't t appear that he was overmatched in any of them.
Still it happened and a young man is dead in a tragedy for all involved.
As for the rest of the event the show went on headlined by Swedish heavyweight Pezhman Seifkhani (11-0) who knocked out Hungarian Andras Balasz Farkas (5-6) in the first. Seifkhani´s stablemate, Croatian light heavyweight Marko Calic (10-0) did the same to veteran Balasz Horvath (31-28).
