Bulgarian professional boxing results – February,2010

06.02 – Lille,France

4×3 cruiserweight  Tayar Mehmed (Bul) vs Mohamed Kabech (Tunis) –  Kabech won on points

12.02 – Pas-de-Calais, France

6×3 featherweight Yordan Vasilev (Bul) vs Anthony Arymani (Fra) – Winner is Arymani ,referee stopped the fight in round four

13.02 – Dublin,Ireland

8×3 flyweight  Itsko Veselinov (Bul) vs Jamie Conlan (Northern Ireland) – Conlan won after the referee stopped the fight in 5^th round

20.02 – Liege,Belgium

8×3 heavyweight Kubrat Pulev (Bul) vs Issosa Mondo (Con) – Pulev won the fight after corner retirement in round 3

18-20 February 2010 Strandzha Cup Champions

This Saturday was the end of the 61^st international men boxing tournament Strandzha Cup. Seven Bulgarians reached the finals and twice the hymn of Bulgaria was heard honouring the champions Alexander Alexandrov (51 kg) and Detelin Dalakliv (54 kg). Maryan Momchev (75kg) and Tervel Pulev (91 kg) didn’t come up for their final fights because of injuries. The hot Bulgarian prospects Lyuben Todorov (57 kg), Angel Dimov (60 kg) and Milan Zlatev (64kg) lost their finals with a minimum point difference against far more experienced opponents. About 2000 people applauded the expected bearer of this year’s Strandzha Cup – Detelin Dalakliev. Second best at the tournament became the world champion in the light heavyweight division, the Russian Artur Beterbiev. The best technical boxer became the Armenian Hovhanes Danlyan (48 kg) and the youngest boxer was the 17-year old Stefan Slavchev. It came as u surprise that the double Olympic champion, World and European champion – the Russian Alexey Tishchenko (60 kg), lost on points (2:4) the semifinal against the Uzbek Hurshid Todzhibaev. Unexpectedly the double World champion Abos Atoev also lost on points his semifinal against Adem Kilikchi (Turkey). Despite these two surprises, there was weak competition this year and the absence of traditionally strong participants like the teams of Kazakhstan and Ukraine made it possible for younger Bulgarian boxers to reach the finals. Here are the champions in each division:

48kg – Hovhanes Danilyan (Armenia)

51kg – Aleksander Aleksandrov (Bulgaria)

54kg – Detelin Dalakliev (Bulgaria)

57kg – Karem Gyurchen (Turkey)

60kg – Hurshid Todjibaev (Uzbekistan)

64kg – Roniel Sotolongo (Cuba)

69kg – Uktamon Rahmonov (Uzbekistan)

75kg – Adem Kilikchi (Turkey)

81kg – Artur Beterbiev (Russia)

91kg – Sergey Kalchugin (Russia)

+91kg – Sergey Kuzmin (Russia)

Best boxer award – Detelin Dalakliev

Second best boxer – Artur Beterbiev

The most skilled fighter -Hovhanes Denilyan

Youngest boxer – Stefan Slachev

The Cobra won again

Kubrat Pulev the Cobra added a new impressive win in his professional record. Issosa Mondo (Kongo) retired after the third round. The Bulgarian dominated the whole fight against the 30-year old African. The bout, which was part of a boxing evening in Belgium, was planned to be 8 rounds.

The next battle of The Cobra will also be 8 rounds on 13 March. He will fight in the legendary Berlin hall ‘Max Schmeling Arena’’, named after the late World champion in the heavyweight division. The former European amateur champion Pulev will fight against the 33-year old Danny Batchelder (25 wins, 12 knockouts, 7 losses and 1 draw). The American lost his last four bouts but it was against very strong opponents, like the former World Champions James Tony and Lamon Brewster and the tough Alexander Dimitrenko and Lans Whitaker.

Minister of Sport opened the 61st international boxing tournament “Strandzha Cup”

In the town of Yambol Minister of sport  Svilen Neykov opened the 61^st international boxing tournament  Strandzha. 13 different countries and 85 boxers are participating in it.

Today, 18 February, was the first day of the tournament and there were 22 bouts. The fight of the World champion and Bulgarian 2009 Sportsman of the Year Detelin Dalakliev in the bantamweight division was eagerly expected. His opponent was Mahmud Ahmed from Egypt and Dalakliev won easily on points. Elian Dimitrov from Bulgaria also celebrated a great win in the same weight division against the Cuban Forestal Marcos.

At 48kg the boxers who reached the semi-finals are Stefan Slavchev (Bulgaria), Yasurbek Lapitov (Uzbekistan) and the Russian Belik Galanov.

At 60kg the winners are the two Bulgarians Angel Dimov and Aytin Ismetov, the double Olympic champion Alexey Tischenko from Russia and Hurshid Todjibaev (Uzbekistan).  At 69kg the winners are Vadim Varzar from Moldova, Erol Ozkal from Turkey, Uktamdzon Rahmonov from Uzbekistan and Banter Carlos Suarez from Cuba.

The winners at 81kg are Elshod Rasulov from Uzbekistan, the Bulgarian Hristo Balamotov, Artur Beterbiev from Russia and Abdelcader Bohenia from France. In the heaviest category over 91kg the winners are Primislav Dimovski from Macedonia, Hyusein Mohamed Dzhosun from Syria, Sergey Kuzmin from Russia and Alfonso Alber Assia from Cuba.

Kubrat Pulev vs Issosa Mondo in a 8 round battle

Kubrat Pulev will step on the professional ring fot the sixth time in his career. This will happen on 20 February in Belgium, where Pulev will fight against Issosa Mondo (Congo) who has 3 wins and 2 losses in his record. After proving himself against experienced boxers like Matt Skelton and Gbenga Oloukun, this coming battle for Pulev seems easily predictable. The boxer from Congo is not likely to offer resistance for more than a few rounds against the European champion from Liverpool.   Issosa has had three wins against low-ranked boxers since 2008 and his two losses date from 2000 and from 2004 when he lost on points. Here is a short video from his last fight on 29 January this year in France against Massinisa Hamaili  where the boxer from Congo won after his opponent got injured in the fourth round:

Results – January

Professional Boxing – results with Bulgarian participation

09.01.2010 – Lyon,France

4x3 bantamweight  -- Fikret Remziev (Bulgaria) vs Omar Lamiri (France) , TKO win for Lamiri in the 3^rd round , the doctor stopped the fight because of a big cut over Remziev`s left eye due to an accidental head clash

4x3 superbantamweight -- Hyusein Hyuseinov (Bulgaria) vs Laurent Faubel (France) , Faubel won on points

6x3 featherweight  -  Stoyan Serbezov  (Bulgaria) vs Amor Ali (France) , Amor Ali won on points

22.01.2010 – Brentwood , UK

6x3 lightheavyweight  -  Grigor Saruhanyan (Bulgaria) vs George Groves (UK) , Groves won by TKO in round 3

6x3 heavyweight – Yavor Marinchev (Bulgaria) vs Tom Dallas (UK) , Marinchev retired after the second round

30.01.2010 – Germany

8x3 heavyweight – Kubrat Pulev (Bulgaria) vs Matt Skelton (UK) , Pulev won by KO in 4^th round

Vasko Vasilev received Bulgarian boxing manager of the year 2009 award

The award ceremony was organized by the Bulgarian Professional Boxing League , whose president is Krasimir Ininski, and took place in restaurant Regal in Sofia. The founder of Alexeev Promotions and major factor in Bulgarian professional boxing in 2009 deservedly won the award Manager of the Year. He organized six boxing events during the year in four different Bulgarian cities, two of them with international аppearance. Vasilev signed contracts with some famous Bulgarian amateur boxers, among whom are Alexey Ribchev (Ruse), Salim Salimov (Omurtag), Stoyan Serbezov (Burgas) and Grigor Saruhanyan (Sofia).

There were several other awards. Professioanl Boxer of the Year was awarded to Kubrat Pulev, Coach of the Year went to Borislav Boyadhziev and Referee of the Year is Tsacho Andreykovski. On honorary diploma was given to Alexey Vasilev for his great contributions to Bulgarian professional boxing.

Desereved and expected: Detelin Dalakliev – Number 1 sportsman in Bulgaria for 2009

Detelin Dalakliev was pronounced Number 1 sportsman of Bulgaria for 2009. He received 1358 points and triumphantly won the 52 edition of the prestigious survey-based competition. He is the only world champion of Bulgaria for this year and the only Bulgarian winner of gold medal in boxing for 14 years. The second and third best are the legend of Bulgarian gymnastics Yordan Iovchev and the star in female wrestling Stanka Zlateva. The official ceremony took place in the National Theatre and patron of the event was the Bulgarian president Georgi Parvanov who awarded the prizes to the winners.

142 journalists took part in the survey organized by Nove Holding and they set three categories. Best coach of the year is the coach of the national boxing team Peter Lesov. He received 156 points and behind him are the coach of the national male volleyball team Silvano Prandi and the coach of the Italian volleyball club and champion ‘’Trento’’ – Radostin Stoichev.

‘’I am very honoured to have this award and also feel happy that Bulgaria managed to produce a world champion. I want to thank the Federation and, of course, Detelin Dalakliev. I wish to all that we have many Bulgarian world champions for 2010, so that the journalists may have more difficulty in deciding who is the best coach and the best sportsman.’’ Peter Lesov said.

The newly established award ‘’Team of the Year’’ went to the national male volleyball team which won the bronze medal at the European championships. Silvano Prandi’s boys got 1270 points and left behind the national sambo team and the teams of Levski FC and CSKA FC.  The President Georgi Parvanov awarded the prize and wholeheartedly admitted that is happier with the achievements of the volleyball team than with his political achievements.

A special award for a handicapped sportsman went to the badminton player Gergana Baramova.

The official ceremony was led by Simona Peicheva and the prominent sports journalist Kamen Alipiev. The guests were kept in high spirits by the music stars Miro, Teodor Koichinov, Edelina Kaneva, Dani Milev Band, Strings and Bon Bon.

Results – Bulgarian amateur senior boxing national team championship first stage – Plovdiv 2009

Champions by weights

48 kg – Georgi Andonov (Levski)

51kg – Alexander Alexandrov (NSA)

54kg – Elian Dimitrov (Pobeda Burgas)

57kg – Lyuben Todorov (Septemvri)

60kg – Kaloyan Dimov (Pobeda Burgas)

64kg – Simeon Chamov ( CSKA)

69kg – Arman Hakopyan (Botev Plovdiv)

75kg – Mladen Manev (Levski)

81kg – Rumen Motovski (Spartak Pleven)

91kg – Tervel Pulev (Natzional Sofia)

+91kg – Milen Paunov (Pobeda Burgas)

Team Ranking :

1. Pobeda Chernomoretz (Burgas) – 34 pts

2. NSA – 30 pts

3. CSKA – 24 pts

4. Levski – 20 pts

5. Spartak Pleven – 13 pts

6. Botev Plovdiv – 11 pts

Kubrat Pulev vs Oleg Platov

It has been only a few months since Kubrat Pulev started his professional career and now he already expects his first serious trial. On 30 January he will play his fifth bout, where his opponent will be the famous and experienced Ukrainian Oleg Platov.  The 26-year old Platov has a record of 30 professional   fights, from which 28 wins (22 knockouts), one stopped fight due to an accidental headbutt and only one loss on points against the journeyman Ludovik Mace. Despite his great experience, Platov hasn’t met a high-profile boxer except the English Danny Williams. The fight between the two was stopped due to a head clash. Platov is 30 in the unofficial world boxrec ranking, while Pulev is 50. Pulev is both taller and 10 kg heavier than the Ukrainian.  The explosive punches of Platov, however, will be a permanent danger during the eight rounds of boxing  and in order to win, Pulev will have to fight perfectly from a distance.

See the fight between Platov and Danny Willliams here:

And the last win of Pulev against Zack Page here:

Kubrat Pulev vs Zack Page

Results 12.12.2009 – Rousse

On 12 December in the boxing gym of BC Locomotiv eight professional bouts were played. In the main six-round fight Alexey Ribchev won on points against the Champion of Bulgaria Mitko Hristov. The fight was in the middleweight division, so the light middleweight title of Hristov was not at stake. Grigor Saruhanyan, Asan Yuseinov, Yordan Vasilev, Stoyan Serbezov and Zahari Mutafchiev also scored wins. A long-expected professional debute made the experienced amateur boxer Salim Salimov who stopped his opponent from Ruse in the second round. Salim has a bronze medal from World Championships and participated in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. On 15 January in one of the boxing gyms of Sofia more rating bouts will be played, where part will take the most promising boxers of Alexeev Promotions, namely Alexey Ribchev, Salim Salimov and Grigor Saruhanyan. Then in June a town on the Black Sea will host an international boxing evening organized by Alexeev Promotions. In September the boxing fans may expect the third boxing evening in Ruse. Alexeev Promotions plan to organize three or four international boxing events  in 2010 and a minimum of 4 with national participation, where young professional boxers will have an opportunity to fight.

Bulgarian Cup 2009 junior champions – U-18

48kg Mitko Meotodiev (Lokomotiv Plovdiv)

51kg Stefan Ivanov  (Levski Sf)

57kg Martin Poptolev (CSKA Sf)

60kg Angel Dimov (NSA Sf)

64kg Angel Hristov (Kiko)

69kg Denis Fikretov (Omurtag)

75kg Todor Naydenov (CSKA Sf)

81kg Abdula Arabie (Kiko)

A boxer from USA is the next opponent for “The Cobra”

In his fourth professional bout, the Bulgarian boxer in the super heavy weight division Kubrat Pulev will face the American Zack Page (19 wins, 25 losses, 2 draws). In spite of the negative record, the 36-year-old boxer from the USA is very experienced and his 67th position in the world ranking suggests his qualities. The bout will take place on 5 December in Germany and will consist of six three-minute rounds. The main event of the evening will be the super fight in the heavy weight division between the Serbian Marco Huck (26-1, 20 knockouts) and the English Ola Afolabi (14-1-3, 6 knockouts). The winner will become world heavy weight champion of the World Boxing Organization. In addition to the Bulgarian participation, on the undercard are some first-class heavy weight fighters like Alexander Povetkin (17-0, 12 knockouts) and Francesco Pianeta (19-0-1, 12 knockouts).

Pulev vs. Page

Bulgarians fought on the professional ring without any success this weekend

Ten Bulgarians participated in professional boxing events on the 20 and 21 November in four different countries. The biggest group went to Casablanca, Morocco to participate in the first professional boxing gala in Morocco`s history. There were eight fights in the programme and five of them were with Bulgarian participation. In the categories up to 63,5kg – Wladimir Borov(Sofia), 63,5kg – Kaloyan Kyuchukov (Yambol), 67kg – Rumen Kostov(Pleven), 69kg – Zahari Mutafchiev (Veliko Tarnovo), 97kg – Georgi Bliznakov (Sofia). All of them lost on points except Bliznakov, who was stopped in the first round.  On the 20 November in Belfast, Northern Ireland in the categories 51kg – Muharem Osmanov (Ruse) and 80kg – Grigor Saruhanyan(Sofia) participated in  4-round fights. Grishata lost on points after the controversial judges ‘decision 37-39 for the Irish. Saruhanian, who has a record of one win and one loss, will play his next fight on 27 November in Poland against Maciej Myszkin (3-0, 2KOs). Osmanov was stopped in the first round. The same happened with the Bulgarian boxers sent to Italy. Hyusein Hyuseinov, 57 kg (Omurtag) was stopped in the second round while Ivelina Ivanova, 51 kg (Razgrad) couldn`t fight more than four out of six rounds. Yavor Marinchev fought against the 120 kg giant Larry Olubamiwo in a show held in Nottingham. After six rounds of boxing by unanimous decision the winner was Olubamiwo.

Pulev outpoints Oloukun

Kubrat Pulev won his third professional bout. This time he made it on points against the Nigerian Gbenga Oloukun (17-3, 10 KO`s), who was ranked number 9 in WBO . The Bulgarian boxer confidently controlled the bout and his punches were by far more effective. Oloukun, who won over former WBO heavyweight champion Lamon Brewster just two fights ago, could do nothing to disrupt Pulev. The Bulgarian took the first couple of rounds to adjust to the Nigerian’s style but then started to dominate due to his superior technical assets. All the rounds were judged for Pulev, who made a quantum leap up in class in this fight. After that win he is currently number 78 in the world boxrec ranking after only 3 fights behind his back. Next fight for Pulev will be on 5 December again in Germany.

On the same show David Haye was throned as the new WBA heavyweight champion. He won on points against the Russian giant Nikolay Valuev.

Bulgarian Cup 2009 amateur senior boxing championship

Champions by weights :

48kg – Georgi Andonov ( Levski – Sofia)

51kg – Alexander Alexandrov  (NSA – Sofia)

54kg – Detelin Dalakliev (Akademik – Sofia)

57kg – Lyuben Todorov (Septemvri – Sofia)

60kg – Kaloyan Dimov (Pobeda Burgas)

64kg – Simeon Chamov (CSKA – Sofia)

69kg – Nikola Nikolov (NSA – Sofia)

75kg – Veselin Kirilov (NSA – Sofia)

81kg – Rumen Motovski (Spartak Pleven)

91kg – Tervel Pulev (Akademik Sofia)

+91kg – Petar Ivanov (Pobeda Burgas)

Team Ranking

1. NSA  - 23 points
2. Akademik – 16 points
3. Pobeda – 14 points

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Serbezov made an impressive fight in Ireland

Stoyan Serbezov (1-2, 1KO) made an excellent performance against the former Irish amateur star and current professional boxer Willie Casey (2-0,1KO) during the boxing show in Dublin this Saturday, 24.10.2009. The boxer from the town of Burgas, who was one of the hot prospects  of Bulgarian amateur boxing four years ago, is back to the ring after a 3-year absence. He made his debut in the boxing show in Ruse, where he lost on points against the experienced Yordan Vasilev.  „Three years out of boxing is not a short period but with hard trainings and more fights I will compensate for the absence. I couldn`t reach the amateurs national team because of the great competition of Alexander Vladimirov and Detelin Dalakliev. Now I can fight in weight divisions between 54-58 kg against every boxer in the world. In my top form I can be a danger for anyone,” Serbezov comments. He signed a contract with the managerVasko Vasilev last month. “I like Serbezov`s style of play. He has a very good defence and needs just a little more confidence to become a nightmare for his opponents. His boxing is very attractive and it was not surprising that he received loud applauds from the audience in Dublin. If he continues to give such a performance, this boy will have a bright future and he will be able to win not only in Bulgaria but on the international scene, as well”, said Vasilev. The legend of Bulgarian boxing Kirkor Kirkorov also took part in the event. His opponent was Eddie Hyland (16-1) and the fight ended in the third round. Hyland attacked Kirkorov with body shots and managed to knock him down twice in the second round. After Kirkorov was down again in the third round the referee decided to stop the contest.

The Cobra on the undercard of Valuev-Haye

Kubrat Pulev, The Cobra, will be on the undercard of the fight for the world heavyweight title between the giant Nikolay Valuev and David Haye (UK). The two stars will meet on 7 October in Nuremberg. The winner will have the belt of the World Boxing Association.

Pulev will be included in the show although he played his second professional match on 17 October. The 28-year old Bulgarian will started his professional career with two knockouts. On 7 November he will fight for the first time in a 6-round match. His opponent is not announced yet.

Probably at the end of the next year Pulev will have the opportunity to fight for a European title or for some of the belts of the big boxing organizations.  This will give him the chance to climb to the top ten in the professional rankings, which is a final step before an attack of a World title. A title in professional boxing will guarantee Pulev the well-deserved millions of euros.

Second KO win for Pulev

Kubrat Pulev registered his second consecutive win with KO in his professional career. This time the victim was the Turkish Serdar Yusal. The Cobra was 108,9kg while his opponent was 104,2kg. The Bulgarian boxer pressed his opponent most of the time and forced him to stay to the corners until the 4^th last round when the boxer from Turkey couldn`t escape Pulev`s fast combination and was counted off. After this win our heavyweight boxer moved up with 191 places in the world ranking and is now number 165 after only two fights. His fight was part of the undercard programme of the fight between Arthur Abraham and Jermaine Taylor, where Abraham won with KO in the 12 round. This was the first fight of the Super 6 world boxing classic tournament which was played in Berlin, Germany. In the other fight from the same tournament, played in Nottingham, UK,   Carl Froch won by a split decision over Andy Dirrel (USA).