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

(Български) Четирима професионални боксьора на финала при аматьорите за Купа България 2009

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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).

Kubrat Pulev against a Turkish in his second professional fight

On 17 October in Berlin Kubrat Pulev will make his second fight as a professional. His opponent will be the 38 year old Serdar Yusal (9-8-2 , 4KOs )  from Turkey. The fight is supposed to be 4 rounds and everyone expects that Pulev will win before the final bell. After a debut victory against the Romanian Florian Benke with TKO in the second round, Kubrat is currently number 356 in the world Boxrec ranking from 1085 active fighters in the heavyweight division. If he wins again in the next fight against Yusa, who is number 234 in the same ranking, Pulev will move up with about 150 places.

Video from Pulev’s debut fight as a professional:

Results 25.09.09

Results from Rousse boxing show 25.09.09

Winners on the left side

6x3 Aleksandar Vladimirov – Itsko Veselinov                   UD

6x3 Konstantin Semerdjiev – Georgi Bliznakov                UD

4x3 Vladimir Borov – Asen Bonev                                      TKO 3 rd

4x3 Tayar Mehmed – Nikolay Yorgov                                SD

4x3 Kirkor Kirkorov – Kaloyan Kyuchukov                     UD

6x3 Yordan Vasilev   -- Stoyan Serbezov                             UD

4x3 Merdjidin Yuseinov – George Sandu                           UD

6x3 Aleksey Ribchev – Florin Oanea                                   DSQ

New Bulgarian lightmiddleweight champion – Mitko Hristov

Winner by KO in round 7 against Zdravko Nikolov

To view photos  from the event click here !

httpv://ring.bg/multimedija/10-runda-opredeliha-shampiona-na-blgariya.html

Kubrat Pulev “The Cobra” starts with a win in professional boxing

Only а week after the World amateur boxing championships in Milan, the European amateur heavyweight champion Kubrat Pulev made his professional debut yesterday. The Romanian Florian Benke was his first opponent. The Bulgarian won with TKO in the second round (time was 2:05) and now is ranked 358 out of 1100 active boxers in the world heavyweight division. It is expected that the highly rated “Cobra” will have an excellent professional boxing career and his promoter “Sauerland Event”        will help him fight for some of the prestigious European and world titles.

Mayweather vs Marquez live on Ring BG

Undisputed lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez (50-4-1, 37 KOs) takes on 5 weight world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr (39-0, 25 KO’s) at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada, on September 19th. Mayweather, who is returning from his self imposed exile from the sport, will be looking to regain the title of best pound for pound fighter in the world, which he relinquished to Manny Pacquiao (49-3-2, 37 KO’s) when he retired.

Marquez, who won the WBO and WBA lightweight titles when he stopped Juan Diaz, will once again be moving up in weight for this fight. Having already won world titles at Featherweight, Super Featherweight and Lightweight, he will be fighting Mayweather at a career high weight somewhere in the region of 143-147lbs

Having only recently moved up to and fought at Lightweight twice, many see the natural size disadvantage as too big of a barrier for Marquez and believe the result is a foregone conclusion. Many also expect Mayweather, an Olympic bronze medallist, to be far too fast, slick and powerful for the great Mexican.

Marquez is seen as a mere stepping stone for a potentially mouth watering clash between Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, although Pacquiao has now secured a bout with WBO Welterweight champion Miguel Cotto. Marquez too, however, will be looking to secure a third clash with the Filipino, as he feels he’s been harshly dealt with by the judges on the two previous occasions they have met.

There first fight, in 2004, was hugely controversial. Marquez hit the deck 3 times in the opening round but won a large majority of the rounds that followed. The fight went the distance with the judges scoring the bout 115-110 Pacquiao, 110-115 Marquez, and 113-113, a draw.

They contested a rematch four years later with the result of this encounter equally as controversial as there first. This too went the full 12 rounds with the judges scoring a split decision for Pacquiao. Most boxing experts believe Marquez won the fight. I believe he won both fights. Although this fight is seen as a warm up for Mayweather, I believe it is a potential banana skin.

Juan Manuel Marquez is an extremely under estimated fighter. He holds impressive wins over the likes of Agapito Sanchez, Robbie Peden, Manuel Medina, Derrick Gainer, Rocky Juarez, Joel Casamayor and the great Marco Antonio Barrera. He was the mandatory challenger to Naseem Hamed’s WBO Featherweight title for 2 years, but was never given the opportunity to fight for the belt.

Struggling to land big fights, Marquez travelled to Indonesia to fight Chris John in his home country. Marquez lost by a controversial unanimous decision. Then came Marquez’s big opportunity to catapult himself onto the big stage. It was announced he would be challenging fellow countryman Marco Antonio Barrera for his WBC Super Featherweight title. Marquez beat Barrera by unanimous decision and paved the way for more high profile bouts.

The newly crowned champion then made a successful first defence of his title against Rocky Juarez. Then came the rematch with Pacquiao. After losing his title, Marquez decided to move up in weight to take on tough Cuban Joel Casamayor. Marquez became the first man to stop Casamayor, scoring an 11th round TKO. Next up was former undisputed lightweight champion Juan Diaz.

The winner would be crowned the undisputed lightweight champion and the number 1 fighter in the lightweight division. In a thrilling and pulsating contest, Marquez became the first man to stop Diaz and inflicted only the second defeat of his career via a 9th round stoppage. Mayweather’s career on the other hand, has consisted of nothing but big fights.

He is a 6 times, 5 weight world champion, and won his first world title in the super featherweight division at the age of 21. The most notable names on his list of victims include Angel Manfredy, Diego Corrales, Jose Luis Castillo, Arturo Gatti, Sharmba Mitchell, Zab Judah, Oscar De La Hoya and Ricky Hatton. He was last seen in the ring back in 2007, when taking apart Ricky Hatton in 10 rounds.

At 32 years of age, this prolonged absence from the ring may have a detrimental affect on Mayweather, and ring rust could prove to be a vital factor. Another key factor may be the rib injury Mayweather suffered during training for this fight. The original date for the bout was July 18th but had to be postponed due to Mayweather’s injury.

Only time will tell if the injury has been given enough time to fully heal. The way in which Marquez’s body responds to the extra weight will also be a vital issue. He revealed he has been lifting heavy rocks at high altitudes in order to build strength and is looking to build all round muscle without losing his speed. Fighting at a higher weight may benefit Marquez.

We have seen the effect it has had on Manny Pacquiao. Winning his first world title at Flyweight, Pacquiao is now campaigning at Light Welterweight. The 5 weight world champion looks as strong and fast as ever at his new found weight, and has disproved the notion ‘a good big un will always beat a good little un’. I don’t think Marquez needs to weigh in at the full limit.

Trying to make use of every pound permitted may add unnecessary muscle slowing Marquez down. The way in which Marquez starts will go along way in determining the outcome of this fight. Keeping in mind Mayweather’s inactiveness, I think Marquez should jump on him as soon as the opening bell sounds. He should look to pressure Mayweather, working every combination off the jab.

I believe he should also look to go downstairs whenever possible, whipping in hurtful body punches, testing whether Mayweather’s rib has fully recovered. Many expected Mayweather to ease his way back into the sport, and expected him to pick a low profile opponent for his first fight back.

Instead, he’s chosen a man considered to be the second best pound for pound fighter on the planet. Marquez is a ferocious, relentless, fearless warrior with heart in abundance. His never say die attitude makes him a match for anyone on his day.

Although Mayweather is considerably bigger and is more natural at the weight, if Marquez can set the tempo early, assert his jab and target Mayweather’s body, I believe he could spring a huge upset.

Source: boxingnews24.com

Dalakliev is №1 on the planet!

Dalakliev (Bulgaria) is the world champion in Milan for the bantamweight division. After fourteen years Bulgaria is again on the top with a golden medal. The previous gold was won by Serafim Todorov (57kg) and Daniel Petrov (48kg) in Berlin in 1995.

At the final Dalakliev won dramatically against Edward Abzalimov (Russia) with 5:3. The fight started smoothly for the 26-year old boxer from Pleven (Bulgaria). He led after the first round with 1:0. The result was doubled after the second round. Then the Russian threw himself in attacking and managed to score a point. After another exchange of punches the result was 3:2 for Dalakliev. 30 seconds before the end of the final Abzalimov made his third point. The Bulgarian showed perfect self-confidence and rushed forwards. He again took the lead after a successful punch and instead of keeping the result, he continued to attack. A new point for Dalakliev made the final result 5:3.

On his way to the title Dalakliev eliminated six opponents and allowed only 5 points to be scored against him. This makes him one of the favourites for winning the Russell Cup for best boxer at World championships.

This is the biggest success for Dalakliev in his career. He had bronze medal from the World championships in Thailand, 2003 and several more medals from European championships. Dalakliev, who is captain of the Bulgarian team, started his development in his hometown of Pleven. Then he moved to the sports school of CSKA BC (Sofia). Now he is a boxer in Academic BC (Sofia) under the guidance of the coach Borislav Boyadjiev.

The final Detelin Dalakliev- Edward Abzalimov (Russia):

The semifinal Detelin Dalakliev – Yankiel Alarcion (Cuba):

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