
Euro News: Ryad Merhy, Kalenga, Konecny, Matevosyan, More
Newly crowned WBA regular cruiserweight king Ryad Merhy (29-1) and Youri Kalenga (25-6) headline a 12 Rounds Promotion show with an exhibition.
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Newly crowned WBA regular cruiserweight king Ryad Merhy (29-1) and Youri Kalenga (25-6) headline a 12 Rounds Promotion show with an exhibition.

WBA super cruiserweight champion Arsen Goulamirian (26-0) is sidelined with a rib injury and his defense against Russian Yuri Kashinsky (19-1) is off, reports l'Equipe.

Queensberry Poland, which was co-founded by Francis Warren and leading Polish fight figure Mariusz Krawczynski, is a further expansion of the Queensberry Promotions brand. Warren and Krawczynski have been busy signing up some of the best young talent in Polish boxing including four-times national champion Ryszard Lewicki, Michal Soczynski and unbeaten Pawel Augustynik (11-0, 5 KOs).

Rising Cuban heavyweight star Jose Angel Larduet (3-0) stopped Englishman Josh Sandland (5-3) in the first of scheduled six-rounder that headlined the "new" Universum's gym show last night in Hamburg. Sandland was down all in all six times before the towel came in. In the co-feature Senad Gashi (20-3) stopped Bosnian veteran Adnan Redzovic (21-5) in the fourth in another heavyweight fight.

The result in the fight between Rico Mueller and Rafal Jackiewicz is now changed to a no-decision after the German Federation (the BDB) have reviewed the fight. The result was first a win for Jackiewicz on scores of 58-56, 58-56 and 57-57. Mueller and his team were very upset with the loss and made a formal protest and while there were no mistakes made in the scoring it was viewed by the BDB to be so out of line that a no-decision was ruled (in accordance with their rules it must be said).

Former WBO cruiserweight king Marco Huck, now campaigning at heavyweight, outscored Dennis Lewandowski over ten last night (Aug 29) in Braunlage. Huck won every round against the somewhat - 152 kg / 335 lbs - overweight Lewandowski.

Fedor Papazov was once thought to be a star in the making by those who guided him - but he just never took off, his best remembrance being possibly a first-leg loss to a young Vasyl Lomachenko in 2007 Chicago amateur championship.

Middleweight Dmytro Mitrofanov (6-0-1, 4 KOs) got his biggest win as a pro so far by stopping heralded Polish veteran Rafal Jackiewicz in four rounds this past Saturday at the Caribbean Club in Kiev, Ukraine. The show was promoted by Vlad Eliseev Boxing System and featured some locally prominent names in the undercard.

Aabenraa, Denmark - Mexican welterweight Jose Luis Rodriguez Guerrero (10-2-2) upset Mikkel Nielsen (8-1) and won the vacant GBU I/C title with a hard-fought unanimous ten round decision. It was scored 95-94 on all cards and that was a bit generous to the Dane. Guerrero had a point deducted in the seventh for repeated low blows.

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.