Mohammed Rabii: record, next fight and profile →
Russian light heavyweight Igor Mikhalkin (now 25-3) beat Dilmurod Satybaldiev (13-3) on points last weekend (November 12) in Moscow. A good win for the former IBO and EBU champ.
Halle an der Saale, Germany - Moroccan super welterweight Mohamed Rabii (10-0) outscored Mexican Jesus Gurrola (27-14-3) over eight. Rabii won on scores of 78-74, 79-74 and 79-73 in what became a tactical fight with Gurrola waiting for his opponent - but waited for too long and only in the second did he score with his apparently heavy left hook.
Felix-Promotion stage a show on December 7 in Budapest, with seven fights on the bill all scheduled for seven rounds. Super welterweight Balazs Bacskai (12-0), national middleweight champion Norbert Harcsa (12-2), cruiserweight Ferenc Urban (6-0 are all in featured fights with Renato Egedi (16-1-2), Balazs Tortelo (15-2), Tamas Kiliti (2-0) and Peter Krammer (10-3-1) making up the undercard.
Magdeburg, Germany - EBU heavyweight champ Agit Kabayel (19-0 or 22-2 depending on which fights you recognize or not) won a unanimous decision over Ukrainian Andriy Rudenko (32-4) to retain the title. It was scored 117-110, 116-111 and 119-108 for Kabayel.
French super welterweight Michel Soro, 33-2-1, had no problems in stopping American Greg Vendetti, 20-3-1, last night (Dec 8) in Paris in the headliner of Univent´s big show at the Palais des Sports Marcel Cerdan. Soro thus retained the WBA Gold title (formerly known as Interim).
The fight for the vacant EBU super featherweight title between Juli Giner 23-3-1, and Samir Ziani,28-3-1, will go ahead sometime in November in Barcelona with Gallego Prada Promociones staging it.
Newly crowned EBU light heavyweight champion Karo Murat could, according to BILD, make his first defence of the title against the man he just beat to win the title, Dominic Boesel. SES have an option on a rematch and if Boesel wants it the fight could happen this fall. The mandatory challenger is Robert Stieglietz, who is officially retired, but as the EBU don´t have any official information about that he remains in that position.
Brian Castano kept his undefeated record intact with a twelve round split decision win over Michel Soro to retain the interim-WBA world junior middleweight title at the Casino d'Evian in Evian les Bains, France. The scores were 115-113, 115-113 for Castano and 116-112 for Soro.
Mohammed Rabii was finally able to make his pro debut Saturday night, stopping Laszlo Kovacs II in the opening round at the Sportovni Hala Kralovka in Prague, in the Czech Republic. Rabii, who represented Morocco at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, dropped Kovacs with a sweeping right cross to the head. Kovacs struggled to his feet, but was in no condition to continue. The fight was stopped at 2:35.
Mohammed Rabii will make his pro debut against Adam Mate Saturday night, promoter Gary Hyde told BoxingScene.com. The six round bout will take place at the Complexe Sportif Mohammed V in Rabii's hometown of Casablanca, Morocco. The 23-year-old Rabii was an amateur standout, competing in the World Series of Boxing, but won the gold medal at the 2015 AIBA World Amateur Championships.