Villa Ballester, Buenos Aires, Argentina - WBA "regular" junior welterweight champion Marcos Maidana (31-2, 28KOs) knocked out Petr Petrov (29-2-2, 13KOs) in the fourth round of a one-sided contest.
WBA "regular" junior welterweight world champion, Marcos "El Chino" Maidana, and Russian boxer Petr "Tsar" Petrov went face to face for the first time at their final press conference. They clash this Friday at Villa Ballester in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Photos by Ramon Cairo.
"Regular" welterweight world champion (WBA), Argentine Marcos "El Chino" Maidana (30-2, 27 KOs) will face Russia's Petr "The Czar" Petrov (29-2-2, 13 KOs) in what will be the first defense of his crown on Friday at German Society Villa Ballester in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Sebastian Contursi, Maidana adviser, informed BoxingScene.com's Carlos Irusta that several key fighters would appear on the undercard.
From his training camp in the city of Rafaela, a province of Santa Fe, WBA "regular" junior welterweight champion, Marcos "El Chino" Maidana enters the final stretch of his preparation to face Petr "The Czar" Petrov on Friday the 23rd of September at the German Society Villa Ballester in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
After a few weeks of looking for an opponent for his first defense of the WBA super lightweight title on Friday the 23rd of September, Marcos Maidana has an opponent: Russian Petr Petrov (29-2, 13 KOs).
According to members of his team, junior welterweight Petr Petrov (29-2-2, 13 KOs) has been selected as the opponent of Marcos Maidana for his homecoming fight on September 23rd at the Sociedad Alemana de Villa Ballester in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Petrov has never been stopped as a pro and his last defeat came in 2002, by decision, to Vitali Tajbert. Since that loss, he won thirteen straight fights.
EBU heavyweight champ Alexander Dimitrenko defends the title September 24 in Hamburg against British veteran Michael Sprott. Dimitrenko is of course looking forward to challenging for a world title - and winning it - but also wants to participate in the 2016 Olympic Games - something that will be possible if the AIBA gets their way and takes over professional boxing as they plan to. Alexander hails from Ukraine but is now a German citizen.