Fedor Chudinov claims "interim" title with chilling KO, Ustinov bests out of shape Welliver12/12/2014 Moscow, Russia
This past Thursday didn't have a lot of boxing action but there was a notable card in Russia where we saw several interesting contests even if they were FOTY contenders. The most notable of the bouts did result in something that needs to be considered in the end of year award articles you'll see posted around various sites in the next few weeks. That was a KO of the Year contender scored by unbeaten Russian Super Middleweight Fedor Chudinov (12-0, 10) who claimed the WBA interim Super Middleweight title with a frightening KO against the previously unbeaten Ben McCulloch (14-1, 11). McCulloch, the PABA champion, started well and had some success though was happy to get engaged in Chudinov's type of fight. That proved to be a big issue for the Australian who was forced eat some devastating shots, including a right hand that left him unconscious on the canvas for several minutes. In the co-feature on this show fan saw Alexander Ustinov (30-1, 21) defeat the gruesomely over-weight and ill prepared Chauncy Welliver (55-10-5, 22) with an 8 round decision. Ustinov did as he wished whilst Welliver became a human punch bag and to say Welliver's work rate was poor be the under-statement of the year. Possibly the most exciting thing about this entire contest was Ustinov's ring entrance with the big man stumbling when vaulted the ropes, aside from that this was a nasty stain on the world of professional boxing. Although the co-feature was an 8 round bout with nothing really on the line there had been two title fights early on the show. One these was a farce as the talented Konstantin Piternov (18-6, 9) took out the inexperienced and limited Alexey Stakanchikov (3-2, 2) inside a round to claim the Russian Light Heavyweight title, thankfully the other was a more worthwhile bout as Dilmurod Satybaldiev (6-1, 2) took a clear win over Karen Avetisyan (9-8-1, 4) to win the Russian Super Middleweight title. In an 8 rounder from the under card Alexander Sharonov (4-0, 2) defeated the tough Vyacheslav Yakovenko (7-19-1, 3) in a good experience building contest for the unbeaten 22 year old. Another fighter who got some rounds was Heavyweight hopeful Pavel Doroshilov (2-0) who took a 4 round decision over Morris Okola (4-2, 2), this was Doroshilov's second decision win following a decision on debut against Danny Williams. Another bout that failed to see a stoppage saw Ramal Amanov (7-0) take a technical decision over Solomon Bogere (12-2-2, 10). One bout that didn't last long saw Isa Akberbayev (14-0-0-1, 10) take out the horribly mismatched Ihar Karavaeu (6-8, 5) inside a round in a clear and pointless mismatch.
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On a busy Saturday in the boxing world there was more fights of note than we usually. Amongst the action was a trio of Filipino shows . Nebraska, USA The key fight, for us, on Saturday night was in the US as unbeaten Middleweights collided. This bout saw the talented but frustrating Russian Matt Korobov (24-0, 14) out point Venezuelan prospect Jose Uzcategui (22-1, 18). Korobov managed to drop Uzcategui twice in round 7 but failed to finish him in what was essentially another performance that did Korobov little favours in regards to fans who seemed to view him worse after the win than they did before he got in the ring. Davao del Sur, Philippines The most well known name in action amongst those Filipino shows was former WBC Flyweight champion Sonny Boy Jaro (37-13-5, 27) who made relatively light work of Tanzanian visitor Ichal Tobida (10-12, 8). Tobida, who had travelled to Davao del Sur from his homeland, tried to give Jaro a fight but in the end the tough and heavy handed Filipino managed to stop Tobida in the 5th round to capture the Asian Boxing Federation Super Flyweight title. Jaro's bout wasn't the only one involving a title as the unbeaten Adones Cabalquinto (16-0, 9) retained his GAB Light Welterweight title with a stoppage against the over-matched Giovani Rota (7-7, 4). This was the 6th stoppage loss for Rota and suggests that he wasn't really suitable opponent for Cabalquinto who was, not too long ago, linked to an OPBF title fight. Hopefully Cabalquinto will drop the GAB title sooner rather than later and focus on fighting for the OPBF belt with fights against the likes of Ja Ik Goo, Shinya Iwabuchi, Min Wook Kim and Hiroki Okada all out there for him. The rest of the results on this card are scarce though one of the bouts saw Genesis Libranza (3-0, 2) stopping Jessie Suacasa (2-3, 1) to maintain his unbeaten run whilst in another bout the debuting Renemark Cuarto (1-0) took a 4 round decision victory over Rodante Suacasa (1-7-2, 1). We're hoping to get the rest of the results from this show over the next day or two. Lanao del Norte, Philippines Whilst Jaro was the biggest Filipino name in action he was far from the only notable one and in Metro Manilla fans got to see the very promising Marlon Tapales (26-2, 9) defeat the limited but determined Fadhili Majiha (15-4-4, 7). Tapales dropped Majiha once in the bout as he retained his WBO Asia Pacific Bantamweight title and moved one fight closer to a WBO title show down. Tapales was the main attraction on this show and in fairness many of the other fighters on the card were somewhat unknown outside of the Philippines. These included the hard hitting Jenny Boy Buca (8-1, 8) who stopped Raymond Dayham (5-2, 4) in the 8th round of a scheduled 10 rounder. The only other 10 rounder saw Edward Mansito (10-1-2, 5) taking a decision over over Alvin Makiling (10-10-3, 3). In the only 8 rounder on the show Belmar Plaza (3-1-3, 1) took an 8 round unanimous decision over fellow novice Jaysever Abcede (3-3, 1). All 6 of the other under-card bouts also went the distance. These included only one close contest as Jonathan Francisco (6-3, 2) took a split decision over Jonas Sultan (4-2, 2) in a 6 rounder. Another of the 6 rounders saw Jhon Rey de Asis (5-1, 3) taking a decision over the experienced Michael Bastasa (6-14-3) whilst the the unbeaten Dexter Alimento (3-0, 1) managed to out point Kim Dangan (2-3, 1). The most notable of the 6 rounders however was the that of promising debutant Bryan Capampangan (1-0) who over-came Michael Acevido (2-6-1, 1). Capampangan wasn't the only debutant and in a 4 rounder Jaylord Montesa (1-0) defeated Eric Mansira (1-14, 1) whilst in the other 4 rounder Reynold Valencia (3-7-1, 1) over-came Joy Joy Formentera (2-2). Metro Manila, Philippines The third Filipino show was in Metro Manila and was headlined by the world ranked Renan Trongco (15-4, 9) who made very light work of Jopher Marayan (6-5-2, 2) who was stopped in the second round of a bout that really was a mismatch. Whilst Trongco is potentially a rising star in the Philippines he wasn't the most well known fight on the show, that was former WBC Super Flyweight title challenger Silvester Lopez (22-7-2, 16) who managed to take out domestic journeyman Arjet Caballes (6-31-5, 3) in the second of a scheduled 6 rounder. As with the card in Lanao del Norte much of the card was 6 rounders, in fact 8 of the 13 bouts were 6 rounders, including the aforementioned Lopez fight. Amongst the others was an opening round victory for the promising Cris Paulino (14-1, 4) who took out Lowell Saguisa (7-16, 3) in double quick fashion, 4th round TKO for Jon Jon Estrada (4-1-1, 3) who stopped Valeriano Gabriel (2-6) and another 4th round TKO for Junjie Lauza (5-10-1, 2) who stopped Zoren Pama (5-11-3, 2). Another of the 6 rounders which failed to go the scheduled saw Eric Panza (5-2-1, 1) defeat Joel Lagusan (3-10, 1) via a technical decision. In bouts that did go the 6 round distance fans saw Dennis Tubieron (18-3-1, 8) surprisingly struggle to over-come Rey Ramos (6-6-2, 3) in a bout that very surprisingly finished in a split decision. Another decision saw the unbeaten Jonathan Dela Cruz (4-0, 1) defeat Danny Manosa (2-3-2, 1) whilst Bryan Macamay (9-2-2, 5) defeated Menard Zaragosa (6-18-1, 4). In 4 rounders Mark Baribar (1-0-1) fought to a draw with the debuting Vic Magdayao (0-0-1), the unbeaten Cris Ganoza (3-0) took a decision over Roberto Mendano (0-1), whilst Anthony Villanueva (1-0, 1) stopped the win-less Alberto Pentecostes (0-3) in the second round whilst the debutant Alvin Medura (1-0, 1) took out Oscar Lim (0-1) inside a round. Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic We'll go full circle here and whilst we started this with an unbeaten Russian, Korobov, we will also end it with an unbeaten Russian, this time Fedor Chudinov (11-0, 9) who dominated the previously unbeaten Andy Perez (19-1, 18). Perez was down in rounds 1,2 and 3 before finally being stopped by the rampaging Chudinov who, on this performance, looks a more exciting talent than Korobov. (Image, of Korobov, courtesy of toprank) This past Sunday was one of those rare days where almost the entire of Asia was fighting with shows in Japan, the Philippines and South Korea. Not all the bouts were big or significant but there was a lot of them. Haenam, South Korea Arguably the most significant bout of the day was in Haenam, South Korea as American Korean Jennifer Han (10-3-1, 1) came up short against IFBA Featherweight champion Ji Hye Woo (14-3, 1). The fight, an incredibly close one, saw Woo defending her title via a majority decision though one would suggest that if the fight was in the US we'd have seen a new champion crowned. In the chief support bout unbeaten Korean Lightweight Jae-Ho Kim (4-0) managed to score a 6 round decision over Do-Yun Kim (1-3-1) the bout was fairly competitive but Jae-Ho Kim was the rightful winner. The main event wasn't the only main event on the show as Ji-Yun Ahn (1-1) managed to take a 4 round decision over the debuting Yoon-Jung Jang (0-1). This bout was incredibly close and was, amazingly, one of 4 majority decisions from the 6 bouts on the show with another being a majority victory for Min-Ki Jin (2-3) who over came Joon-Chul Kim (1-2). Rather unexpectedly both of the other bouts on the show ended in majority decision draws. These saw Sung-Young Yang (2-0-1, 1) and Ji-Hoon Lee (1-0-1) both remained unbeaten in a Super Bantamweight bout whilst neither Hee-Joon Joo (0-1-1) or Sung-Kook Jo (0-1-1) could record their first win. Noginsk, Russia Whilst the "biggest" bout was in South Korea the most notable was in Russia as the fast rising Fedor Chudinov (10-0, 8), pictured, recorded his biggest win to date. Chudinov, the younger brother of the highly regarded Dmitry Chudinov, scored his biggest win so far as he forced the retirement of former world title challenger Stjepan Bozic (28-8, 19). Although less well known than Dmitry we dare think that Fedor is the better of the brothers though do worry with him fighting at Super Middleweight. In the co-feature here another unbeaten man impressed. That was Arif Magomedov (10-0, 7) who took just 94 seconds to blast out Slavisa Simeunovic (12-7, 10). Simeunovic was dropped 3 times in 94 seconds and it was obvious that he couldn't handle the power of Magomedov who seemed to drop him every time he opened up. On the under-card Alexey Stakanchikov (3-1, 2) took 57 seconds to stop Misa Nikolic (18-26-2, 8) whilst female fighter Ekaterina Izotova (3-0-1, 1) took a 3rd round victory over the limited Agnes Draxler (6-5), who suffered her 4th stoppage loss. Okinawa, Japan In Okinawa, where we had one of two Japanese shows, fans were treat to some very one sided bouts. The main event here saw the Japanese ranked Dado Cabintoy (13-4-2, 6) make light work of Indonesia's Rian Apriles Djabar (3-5-1, 3) who never looked fit to share a ring with Cabintoy. The main may have lasted 2 rounds but that was still a round longer than the chief support bout which saw the hard hitting Masatoshi Kotani (14-2, 11) taking out the previously unbeaten Rengga Rengga (7-1, 1) inside a round. Much of the undercard on this show was over quickly as well. This was because 4 undercard bouts lasted less than 2 rounds each. These included Ryo Tatematsu's (2-2, 2) victory over Takanari Hamamura (2-3, 2), Koki Tomio's (3-4, 3) victory over the debuting Hikaru Nagamine (0-1), Morihisa Iju's (3-0, 3) victory over Koichi Uryu (3-1, 2) and Seita Ogido (5-1, 1) scoring his first KO over Naoki Shoda (3-7-1). As well as the string of stoppages we did have two bouts go to the final bell. One of those was a shut out for Shisato Okuma (5-1-2, 5) who was surprisingly take the distance by Hironori Miyake (1-3, 1) whilst the other, the only competitive bout on the show, saw Fever Maki (4-1, 2) taking a majority decision over Tatsuya Kuwae (1-1, 1). Hyogo, Japan The other Japanese show was in Hyogo and although is was more competitive than the Okinawa show it was equally as lacking in genuinely noteworthy action, other than the main event. The main event on this show was notable due to the fact Atsushi Aburada (8-6, 5) scored a genuinely shocking upset over Toshimasa Ouchi (16-7-3, 4). Ouchi went into the bout as a ranked Japanese fighter and as a man who, 18 months ago, fought Masayuki Kuroda, the then Japanese Light Flyweight champion to a draw. This victory is a major one for Aburada who ended a 2 fight losing streak as a result. As well Aburada's 6th round TKO over Ouchi the card saw a further two stoppages. These were a 41 second TKO for the debuting Yuya Yabuta (1-0, 1) over Raimon Mune (0-2-1) and a 76 second KO victory for Toshio Tamura (1-0, 1) over fellow debutant Eita Azuma (0-1). The shows other 4 bouts went 4 round decisions. These included a technical decision in favour of Keigo Yokoyama (1-1) who took his first victory over Osamu Katayama (0-3), a hard fought win for Tomoko Hayashi (2-2, 1) who beat the debuting Akari Arase (0-1), a clear decision for Shota Nakashima (1-1) over Kazuki Koyanagi (2-7) and an equally clear victory for Tenta Kiyose (1-1) over Kyosuke Takaoka (2-2, 1). Tarlac, Philippines In the Philippines we had a very low profile 4 bout show. This show saw Jeffrey Alejandre (2-2, 1) scoring a 2nd round TKO over Roberto Santa Ana (1-3), Miko Sacro (4-2, 1) scoring a retirement stoppage over the win-less Roderick Naduma (0-5), a dominant decision win for Pablito Canada (3-3, 1) who beat Rodel Garde (0-8-1) and a points victory for the debuting Vincent Bautista (0-1) who out pointed Rommel Berwela (0-2). (Photo courtesy of boxrec.com) |
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