The Past Week In Action 4 January 2015
December 28 Mercedes, Argentina: Light Heavy: Walter G Sequeira (12-1) W PTS 10 Roberto D Moreno (9-6-1). Sequeira retains the interim WBC Latino title with unanimous decision over Moreno. It was the aggressive Sequeira against the counter-puncher Moreno. The fight was evenly balanced over the first six rounds with Sequeira having success when he could pressurise Moreno and trap him on the ropes and Moreno showing good lateral movement and countering. From the seventh the superior strength and stamina of the local boxer told and finally Sequeira ran out a clear winner. Scores 97-93 twice and 99-91. Now 12 wins in a row for the 27-year-old champion who is rated No 2 cruiser by the FAB. Moreno, 29, the FAB No 6 super middle, had won his last three fights. December 29 Budapest, Hungary: Heavy: Zoltan Csala (6-0) W KO 3 Zoltan Petranyi (51-20). Heavy: Zsolt Bogdan (8-0) W PTS 10 Danny Williams (46-25). Fly: Gabor Molnar (16-6) W PTS 10 David Kanalas (5-1). Csala vs. Petranyi The “younger fighter” Csala wins the vacant WBFed International and Hungarian titles with kayo of Petranyi. Csala started strongly and aggressively with a surprised Petranyi forced onto the back foot. The more experienced man got into the fight in the second and looked to be taking control. However in the third the bull-like rushes from the 37-year-old “Furioso” overpowered Petranyi. Both shaped to throw a right but Csala’s got there first. It crashed into Petranyi’s jaw and he fell face first on the canvas and was counted out. Now 5 wins in a row by KO/TKO for Csala who has only been a pro for 5 months. He is strong but slow and crude. The 48-year-old “Csepi” Petranyi had stopped being a travelling test body and had been promoting his own shows recently with a result that he had won his last 15 fights. The defending champion, a pro since 1996, first won the national title in 2003 and with it falling vacant occasionally had actually won the title 5 times and was a huge local favourite. He announced his retirement having fought in 13 different countries in his 18 year career. Bogdan vs. Williams Romanian-born Bogdan takes unanimous decision over Williams to win the vacant Global Boxing Federation title. Bogdan was looking to end it early as he caught Williams with a right to the head in the first and again with a right uppercut at the end of the round. Williams employed rope-dope-tactics in the second just laying on the ropes for the whole three minutes but he was doing more holding than hitting. It was more of the same in the third with Bogdan scoring with some meaty hooks to head and body and Williams briefly using his jab but mostly just covering up on the ropes. The fourth was almost a carbon copy of the third except that Williams did score with a series of left hooks but for the rest of the time was content to lie on the ropes and block, duck or hold. Both fighters looked tired in the fifth (in fact they both looked tired from the first so I should say more tired) but Williams did actually drive Bogdan across the ring only to then retreat back to the ropes himself. It was the same in the sixth only this time Williams launched a sustained body attack and momentarily looked capable of turning the fight around only to again retreat to the ropes where Bogdan just threw bludgeoning hooks and crosses and Williams just held. In the seventh a Williams left hook sent Bogdan staggering back across the ring and Williams followed him scoring with hooks to the body. However the Brit was not able to sustain the attack and again threw the round away by just lying on the ropes and letting Bogdan flail away. Bleeding from the mouth and nose and exhausted Williams spent the last three rounds as he had for most of the fight laying on the ropes whilst Bogdan threw ponderous punches with enough getting through to win each round. Williams looked to be badly hurt by a series of uppercuts in the ninth and lost his mouthpiece in the last but survived. Scores 99-91 twice and 100-90.The refereeing was weak. Both fighters received plenty of warnings but no action was taken. Both Bogdan and Williams could have been thrown out for holding and Williams could have been disqualified for constantly leading with his head. The 35-year-old Bogdan was taking part in his first ten round fight having turned pro in 2011. He is just too slow to be a threat to any top fighter. The 41-year-old Williams is less than a shadow of the fighter who beat Mike Tyson ten years ago with the former British and Commonwealth champion no longer the “Brixton Bomber” he has to fight at a funereal pace to go ten rounds. Occasionally he digs in some left hooks which were a feature of the younger man Williams, but it’s a fleeting glimpse. He is 2-15 in his last 17 fights. Molnar vs. Kanalas A rousing little flyweight fight saw Molnar regain the Hungarian title with split decision over Kanalas. It was a tight fight which could have gone either way. Neither is a big puncher so they were able to trade often and there were plenty of frantic exchanges with the rounds being difficult to score. The cards read 98-93 and 96-94 to Molnar and 95-94 to Kanalas. Molnar had won the title in March by beating David Kanalas who I believe is Roberts’s brother. The national title became vacant after Molnar was stopped in three rounds by Jamie Conlan for the WBO European title in June. First loss for Robert. The 23-year-old was a good level amateur winning a silver medal at the European Schools Championships, competing at the World Cadet Championships and the World Junior Championships. December 30 Prague, Czech Republic: Cruiser: Lubos Suda (33-9-1) W TKO 6 Lukas Skirca (1-2). Cruiser: Roman Kracik (36-11-1) W PTS 6 Jindrich Velecky (19-31). Suda vs. Skirca Veteran Suda makes heavy work of beating inexperienced Czech Skirca. The 38-year-old Suda found late substitute Skirca a handful for the first two rounds as Skirca came out punching and had Suda hurt a couple of times. Suda bounced back over the next two rounds with Skirca badly cut over his left eye. It was all even after four but in the fifth body punches from Suda slowed Skirca and Suda scored two knockdowns in the sixth to force the finish. First fight in almost 8 months for former undefeated EU champion Suda who was world rated way back after winning 19 of his first 20 fights. He blamed his poor performance on an arm injury suffered two weeks before the fight. Skirca, 31, had been stopped in 105 seconds by Brit Kash Ali in November. Kracik vs. Velecky No real highlights in this one as Kracik boxes his way to a clear points win. The 43-year-old Kracik announced his retirement after twelve years as a pro. He lost only one of his first 31 fights, to Suda, and is a former Czech champion. Velecky, another Czech, and 40-years of age, has lost his last 13 fights, but usually goes the distance. Abbreviations ABC=Asian Boxing Council an affiliate of the WBC ABF=Asian Boxing Federation. I assume this is an affiliate of the IBF ABU=African Boxing Union an affiliate of the WBC ACC=WBC Asian Council Continental title ANBF=Australian National Boxing Federation who administer Australian titles BBB of C=British Boxing Board of Control BBB of C Southern/Central/Midlands/Scottish Area etc. British Area titles BDB= Bund Deutscher Berufsboxer one of the German boxing bodies B & H=Bosnia & Herzegovina BSA=Boxing South Africa responsible for administering boxing in South Africa CBC=Commonwealth Boxing Council a sanctioning body for titles competed for by citizens of Commonwealth countries CISBB-WBC title covering the rump of the USSR and the Slovenian Boxing Board DRC=Democratic Republic of the Congo EBU=European Boxing Union FAB=Argentinian Boxing Federation FFB=French Boxing Federation GAB=Philippines Games & Amusement Board responsible for administering boxing in the Philippines GBC= Global Boxing Council a sanctioning body IBA=International Boxing Association a sanctioning body IBF=International Boxing Federation a sanctioning body IBO=International Boxing Organisation a sanctioning body JBC =Japanese Boxing Commission NABA=North American Boxing Association, a WBA affiliate NABF=North American Boxing Federation a WBC affiliate NABO= North American Boxing Organisation, a WBO affiliate NCC=National Championships of Canada NGG=US National Golden Gloves NZPBF=New Zealand Professional Boxing Federation a national sanctioning body OPBF=Orient & Pacific Boxing Federation PABA=Pacific & Asian Boxing Association, a WBA affiliate PBF=Philippines Boxing Federation, a sanctioning body in the Philippines UBF=Universal Boxing Federation a sanctioning body UBO=Universal Boxing Organisation a sanctioning body USBA= United States Boxing Association, an IBF affiliate USBO=United States Boxing Organisation an WBO affiliate WBA=World Boxing Association a sanctioning body WBC=World Boxing Council a sanctioning body WBFed=World Boxing Federation, a sanctioning body WBFound=World Boxing Foundation, a sanctioning body WBU=World Boxing Union, a sanctioning body IBF WBA Rating=Both bodies leave vacancies in their ratings so when showing a IBF or WBA rating for a fighter where there is a vacant position ahead of them in the rankings which affects his rating I will put his numerical rating i.e. No 6 and in brackets and his rating based on the number of fighters ahead of him so IBF 6 (5) shows his numerical position is 6 but there are in fact only 5 fighters listed ahead of him due to one or more of the higher rating positions being vacant.
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