Russian amateur boxing championship has successfully ended tonight in a city of Ufa, Bashkortostan. The tournament started on April 22 and featured top Russian pugilists who compete in unpaid ranks. BoxingScene followed the entire tournament. Here are the final results and short remarks on each of ten weight classes.
Currently, the Russian amateur boxing championship is currently under way in the big pre-Ural city of Ufa, which is the Bashkir national capital. The tournament started on April 22 and is penciled in to end on Saturday May 30. Here are the quarterfinal and semifinal detailed results in every weight class.
Former junior middleweight world champion Roman Karmazin (40-4-2, 26KOs) says boxing is a sport where very few fighters walk away rich. Karmazin, 38-years-old, announced his retirement after suffering a bad knockout to Daniel Geale in October. He wants to start a new life by training a few fighters, writing a book on boxing and plans to open a small hotel in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Following a lengthy voting period for the online fans of the sport, the Professional Boxing Federation of Russia has finally announced its prize-winners for the year of 2010. The results were a bit surprising but it’s necessary to note that fans’ opinions were also taken into account, which has radically changed an entire landscape of preferences.
By Alexey Sukachev - On Saturday night, Vic Darchinyan, one of the most fearsome little fighters of the recent memory, will stride across the ropes to face yet another (former) champion in his illustrious career, which is already filled with notables of various sorts and calibers.
A fight card, promoted by German Titov, Kirill Pchelnikov and Art Pellulo, is currently under way at DIVS ("Dvorets Igrovych Vidov Sporta") in Ekaterinburg, Russia. The main event (which starts at about 6 PM GMT) will see the first defense of the WBO middleweight title by the champion Dmitry Pirog (Russia) against optional challenger Javier Francisco Maciel (Argentina). Six more contests (including two minor title fights) will fill in the undercard.
Union Boxing Promotion, a Donetsk-based Ukrainian promotional company, which is governed by Yuri Ruban and his chief assistant Dmitry Yeliseev, plans a huge boxing comeback on Aug. 20 in their thriving hometown. Several well-developed local fighters will take their positions in the event labeled “Pro Boxing Show IX”, which will be timed to the 20th anniversary of the state’s independence and corresponding holidays and celebrations.
The Russian boxing scene, which has been mostly lazy and lame over the first couple of months in 2011, pretends to get thriving during the last weekend of March with four events of various significance being planned. Here is some news on each of them.
Some details are in for Friday’s big boxing event in Kemerovo, Russia. The show was advertised as “The Nikolay Valuev Cup” with the giant former belt-holder greeting the winners and awarding them with valuable prizes. Promoting the tournament was Alexander Yagupov with the help of Kirill Pchelnikov and German Titov.
WBA #7, WBO #8 and IBF #14 light heavyweight Dmitry Sukhotskiy (17-1, 12 KOs) retained his WBO I/C title with a fifth round stoppage of former amateur star Konstantin Piternov (12-1, 4 KOs).