Regardless of an ongoing confrontation between Russia and plenty of Western nations and a major-scale navy battle between Russia and Ukraine, the state’s struggle scene was comparatively lively in October and November with a number of occasions, which featured Russia’s high home expertise in each native and worldwide encounters.
The precise standing of these fights stays to be seen as main sanctioning our bodies imposed varied sanctions and restrictions on Russia’s home fighters. However, fighters continued to do their work even below this grim actuality.
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Ex-WBC #1 and TBRB #6 ranked cruiserweight Alexey Papin (15-1, 14 KOs) made brief work of beforehand undefeated Bosnian import Damir Beljo (26-1, 21 KOs) in the principle occasion of the present, promoted by Dmitry Ivanov, in Moscow. The present happened on October 29.
Beljo hadn’t fought for 3 years earlier than this struggle and hadn’t overwhelmed an opponent with a pulse for eight years (when he scored stoppage wins over Colombian veterans Alejandro Berrio and Epifanio Mendoza). He was repeatedly stalked, rocked within the struggle, and put down early into the second with a serious left hook. The Bosnian obtained up however the referee stopped it virtually instantly after that when Papin continued his onslaught. Beljo protested mightily and was granted a rematch if he ever needs to execute this feature.
With the end result being prescripted, its consequence hardly issues. What issues extra is the time ticking for Papin, who’s 35, and has a comparatively slender window for his title alternative, which is closing quickly as a result of political and navy conditions.
In a co-feature, tremendous featherweight Murad Aliev (5-0-1, 4 KOs) knocked out Namibian fighter Nathaniel Kakololo (14-5-1, 6 KOs) at 0:47 of the sixth spherical. In his earlier struggle, Aliev decisioned 12-0-1 WBO-ranked compatriot Ruslan Kamilov.
Different notable outcomes:
• Batal Chezhia (11-3-3, 4 KOs) D 8 Maxim Smirnov (9-14-4, 4 KOs): 80-72, 74-74 and 75-77
• Timur Sakulin (12-0, 7 KOs) TKO 2 Willbeforce Shihepo (25-16, 18 KOs)
On November 11, Russia’s 2020 Olympic gold medalist Albert Batyrgaziev continued his street to a potential shot at one of many main belts with a assured efficiency towards Panamanian import Ricardo “El Cientifico” Nunez (23-4, 21 KOs), which resulted in a large unanimous resolution: 100-90, 99-91, and 99-91. One can argue that the margin was barely exaggerated by the officers.
After preventing as a featherweight in 2021 (and scoring a formidable streak of stoppages), Batyrgaziev jumped two divisions up in weight, leading to a partial lack of his punching energy. It may be a slight drawback for the fighter, who depends totally on offensive, mixture boxing as does Batyrgaziev.
Towards Nunez, who challenged Gervonta Davis for the Tremendous WBA tremendous featherweight belt and was stopped in two in 2019, this blemish was evident through the first half of the struggle. The Panamanian used his timing and slight attain benefit to neglect Batyrgaziev’s exercise.
Albert elevated tempo through the second half of the bout and used his different benefits – a southpaw stance and spectacular cardio – to beat the Panamanian’s resistance, though some eaten pictures have been pointless.
BoxingScene had it 98-93 – for Batyrgaziev, who promised homework to eradicate errors can be performed in preparation for his subsequent fights. All in all, it was a strong studying expertise for the 24-year-old expertise. The bout and the supportive undercard have been promoted by Dynamo Boxing.
Former European and IBO mild heavyweight champion Igor Michalkin got here again to the ring fourteen months after his TKO loss to Matthieu Bauderlique in France to convincingly outpoint Russia-based Kyrgyz native Dilmurod Satybaldiev over ten rounds, albeit the official standing of the struggle is but to be confirmed.
Satybaldiev (now 13-3, 4 KOs) was coming off his sensational stoppage victory over a multi-division, multi-title contender/challenger Maxim Vlasov this previous Could. Towards Michalkin, 37, he was much less constant. The Russian veteran relied successfully on his jab through the first half of the struggle, clinching Satybaldiev each time he was in a position to get shut.
Michalkin slowed down after the mid-point to avoid wasting power for the ultimate surge, which was profitable and earned him a victory and a neighborhood “Champion of the Commonwealth” title.
What’s subsequent for Michalkin (25-3, 11 KOs)? His promoter Vladimir Hryunov voiced {that a} fast rematch with Satybaldiev is in play for the twenty ninth of December. One other potential choice is the lately retired Vlasov (46-5, 26 KOs), who can kick off one other run at (who is aware of) one other title alternative.
On the identical card, Russian middleweight champion Rokhman Akhmetkhanov (5-0, 5 KOs) defended his regalia in fashion by stopping normally sturdy Sergey Gorokhov (11-6-2, 7 KOs) in 4 rounds. Akhmetkhanov wobbled Gorokhov within the third and continued his onslaught within the fourth till the referee has seen sufficient and waved it off.
Additionally, mild welterweights Vage Sarukhanyan (20-3-3, 4 KOs) and Muzaffar Rasulov (9-2-1, 6 KOs) ended their six-round encounter in a draw, and Ismail Iliev (14-3-1, 4 KOs) halted journeyman Alexander Zhuravskiy (13-10-1, 11 KOs) in six rounds.