Sergey Gulyakevich, an excellent Belarus technician and a former WBC super featherweight title challenger (he lost a close majority decision to Humberto Gutierrez in Mexico in 2009), came back to action and posted two easy wins over the course of three weeks.
Ural Boxing Promotions, a small but fairly successful boxing team, which is focused on young, rising welterweight contenders, comes back to its present fistic activities this coming Sunday in Noginsk, Moscow Region, Russia.
The weights are in for Moscow's big night of boxing, which is taking place tomorrow at Crocus City Hall in Myakinino, a satellite town at the western boarder of Moscow, Russia. Headlining the show is the WBA interim-cruiserweight champion Denis Lebedev (23-1, 17 KOs), who is also ranked #1 by the WBA and #2 by the WBO; interim champions are now being ranked by the World Boxing Association. Lebedev will put his title at risk against dangerous heavy-hitter Shawn Cox (16-1, 15 KOs) of Barbados, who is rated #15 by the WBA at 200lbs. Cox defeated former WBC champion Wayne Braithwaite in his latest fight in the first round.
Hard-hitting Belarussian prospect Sergey Rabchenko, who is being co-promoted by Ricky Hatton and Valery Kaplya continued his recent British adventures with another frightening display of his skills. Competing on the undercard of Gary Buckland versus Paul Truscott showdown, WBA #11 Rabchenko, 26, took just 21 seconds to destroy rather capable German opponent Ronny Gabel (10-5, 8 KOs) with a single left hook to the body.
Later today, Ural Boxing Promotions and its partners will take part in a huge international sportive festival, named “For Russia!”, which is set to take place at Traktor Ice Arena in Chelyabinsk, Russia, deep into Ural mountains. Aside of a number muay thai and kick boxing match-ups, there will be two boxing fights, both of them being sanctioned for minor WBC titles.
European light welterweight champion Denis Shafikov (27-0-1, 16 KOs) is ready to defend his title later tonight at the backyard of Scottish challenger Lee McAllister (34-2, 9 KOs) in Aberdeen.
“Real Boxing” is the name of the huge upcoming show, organized by promoter Vladimir Hryunov at the “Krylia Sovetov” sports arena in Moscow, Russia. The date of the event is set for February 8 (the opening bell sounds at 7 PM LT), and the hype is slowly rising before the beginning of the event.
Two Russian notables were successful on Saturday while fighting in Kohtla-Jarve, Estonia, for locally controversial WBC Baltic titles.
In one of the bloodiest Russian encounters of 2011, Moscow-based Azerbaijani Vusal Aliyev grabbed the vacant Baltic Boxing Union middleweight title at the “Sport-Service” arena in Podolsk, Russia. His opponent, gutsy Ukrainian youngster Bogdan Protsyshyn was no loser, delivering an extremely brave performance against a bigger guy.
The recent editiorn of Bigger's Better boxing tournament, a continental version of the famed British Prizefighter series, took place at Siemens arena in Vilnius (Vilno), the capital of Lithuania. As always, eight cruiserweight/heavyweight fighters (predominantly boxers and kick boxers) collide in a play-off style format with four quarterfinals, two semi-finals and, finally, well... a final. All of the fights are scheduled for three three-minute rounds. Promoter is Egis Klimas, an America-based Lithuanian.