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Boxing – During a recent HBO broadcast, an onscreen graphic depicted the top welterweights in the world according to the network. One name likely unfamiliar to the American boxing public was that of Jan Zaveck, the reigning IBF Welterweight Champion. The Slovenian-born, Germany-based title holder is currently wrapping up preparations for his second defense of the title he won last December. Opposing him Saturday will be his mandatory challenger and lone career conqueror, Rafal Jackiewicz. A win would go a long way in improving Zaveck’s standing among the 147-pound elite, and perhaps give him the valuable bargaining chip needed to entice one of the big names in the division into the ring.

Zaveck (29-1, 17 KOs) of Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany by way of Ptuj, Slovenia burst onto the international scene with his title-winning three-round destruction of Isaac Hlatshwayo in South Africa late last year.

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“200: Celebrate and Dominate” Mosley vs. Mora

Kaliesha West will return home to fight in Southern California on Saturday, September 18 to face South Carolina’s Angel Gladney for the vacant WBO Bantamweight World Title on the off-television portion of the “200: Celebrate and Dominate” Mosley vs. Mora undercard at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles.

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Ricky Hatton – no comeback.

Former world champion Ricky Hatton has told BBC Radio Manchester that he will probably never fight again. “You can never say never, but if I was to put my last pound on it I would say ‘no, I think that’s me done,’” he said. “…I’ve been retired, if that’s what you can call it, for 16 months. I announced I was going to make a comeback and I came back off holiday and went into a training camp for three or four weeks, but it just wasn’t the same.” He added that he’s renewed his boxing license just in case he changes his mind.

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Boxing Results Australia.

Former world heavyweight challenger Kali “Checkmate” Meehan (36-4, 29 KOs) outpointed Evans “The Sandman” Quinn (18-5-1, 16 KOs) over twelve rounds to capture the IBF Pan Pacific title on Thursday at the La Montage Reception Center, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Australian featherweight champion “Aussie” Joel Brunker (16-0, 10 KOs) was impressive in stopping Indonesian Carlos Lopez (20-7, 7 KOs) in two rounds to capture the vacant WBO Youth title.

IBF #4 featherweight Billy Dib (28-1, 16 KOs) scored a stoppage over courageous import Ceferino Lambarda (19-2, 7 KOs) when the towel came into the ring at the start of the sixth round from Lambarda’s corner.

Former 2004 Athens Olympian Adam Forsyth (9-0, 8 KOs) forced a fourth round stoppage over American Chris “Cold Steel” Thomas (17-13-2, 14 KOs) in a scheduled eight round bout.

Former world water skiing champion and model Lauryn Eagle (1-0, 1 KO) made a successful professional debut at welterweight and stopped prison guard Kay Hodgson (0-2) in round one. .

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Dmitriy Salita defeats Franklin Gonzalez.

Former world title challenger Dmitriy Salita (31-1-1, 16 KOs) pounded out an eight round unanimous decision over Franklin Gonzalez (13-6, 9 KOs) on Wednesday night at the Oceana Hall in Brooklyn, New York. Salita showed no effects from his blowout loss to Amir Khan in December.

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Andre Berto Vs Selcuk Aydin in the works.

A welterweight showdown between unbeaten WBC welterweight champion Andre Berto (26-0, 20 KO’s) and unbeaten welterweight contender Selcuk Aydin (20-0, 15 KO’s) could take place on the undercard of the lightweight championship match-up between WBA/WBO lightweight champion Juan Manuel Marquez vs. WBO lightweight interim champion Michael Katsidis on November 27th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. According to Dan Rafael of ESPN, the fight is in the works. Also, WBA bantamweight champion Celestino Caballero could also be on the card against a still to be determined opponent.

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Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. – official challenger.

The World Boxing Council is announcing that in its next ratings it will grant #1 rated Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. the status of official challenger of WBC middleweight world champion Sergio Martinez. The bout will take place after the next voluntary defense of Martinez, a fight that has already been scheduled.

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TV Channel “Russia 2″ will be broadcasting live the Klitschko Vs Peter fight.

Public TV channel “Russia 2″ (former “Sports”) will broadcast live the boxing match between world heavyweight champion Ukrainian Vladimir Klitschko and former champion Samuel Peter of Nigeria, which will be held on September 11 in Frankfurt, Germany. On September 11 – 22.40, Moscow time.

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Nikolai Valuev – Turned Actor.

Former world boxing champion heavyweight champion Nikolai Valuev has agreed to a major role in the film “Strange Wilderness.” According to the radio station “Mayak”, shooting will begin this week in St. Petersburg.

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Bob Arum’s still missing.

Bob Arum’s 49 year old lawyer son John Arum is still missing – John a well known environmentalist and experienced mountain climber was reported missing on Monday by family members.

His 78 year old father abandoned the Antonio Margarito-Manny Pacquia media tour after the first stop in Beverly Hills on Tueday. Arum and his wife Lovee, who is Arum’s third wife and not John’s mother, jetted off to Seattle to meet up with air and ground search teams in North Cascades National Park.

Now, on Wednesday, searchers have located and identified a day or “fanny” pack belonging to Arum. Four helicopters, two with infrared capabilities for detecting body heat, have been added to the search.

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Dominican Republic’s new sensation Dagoberto Aguero shocked the local Chinese spectators after beating top favourite Li Chao in the flyweight semi-final on the third day of competition at the World Combat Games.

The contest finished in the first round after two minutes when the ringside doctor suspended the bout due to Li Chao’s injury. Therefore, despite the 1:1 score the 17-year-old Dominican athlete advanced to the final in Beijing, where he will fight for the gold against South Asian Games silver medalist Muhammad Waseem of Pakistan.

Powerful Aguero became Panamerican Junior Champion and achieved a valuable silver medal at the La Romana Cup in his first elite tournament last year and finished second at the Panamerican Youth Championships in February, but did not qualify for the Youth Olympic Games.

As expected, reigning Olympic Champion and two-time World Champion Zou Shiming also advanced to the final after beating Dominican Republic’s Juan Gabriel Medina by 6:3. In the gold medal match he will face 18-year-old Safoviddin Yusufi of Tajikistan.

After beating top-class athlete Anvar Yunusov of Tajikistan in the quarter-final by accepted scores, local newcomer Zhang Jiawei won another bout against Jordan’s Arabic Games winner Mohamed Abdelaziz Al-Wadi in the semi-final. His next rival will be Joseph Cordina of Wales in the new 56kg weight division.

Two-time Olympian Assylbek Talasbayev of Kyrgyzstan and his younger compatriot Ermek Sakenov also reached the finals after easy victories against their Polish rivals. Lightweight Talasbayev will face Mohamed Ramadan Eliwa of Egypt, while Sakenov’s opponent will be Hu Richabilige of China in the 64kg weight category.

One of the most eagerly anticipated finals will be the welterweight bout, where Chinese top favourite and Beijing Olympian Xinjiang-based Maimati Tusunqiong will be fighting against the strong Vasile Belous of Moldova.

Powerful 26-year-old Vladimir Milevskij of Lithuania hammered his teenage opponent, Tajikistan’s Navruz Jafoyev, in the middleweight class but can expect a harder final contest versus Zhang Jianting of China.

Another Chinese-Lithuanian final fight will be held in the light heavyweight division, where National Games and Benazir Bhutto Tournament winner Meng Fanlong’s rival will be the relatively inexperienced Tadas Tamasauskas.

Asian Games gold medalist and Beijing Olympics quarterfinalist Djakhon Kurbanov of Tajikistan was surprisingly defeated by the experienced Constantin Bejenaru or Romania. It was not the first time in Djakhon Kurbanov’s long career that he has been injured during a fight. Bejenaru’s opponent will be Jordan’s Ahmad Al-Teimat in the final.

Olympic Games silver medalist Zhang Zhilei of China continued his successful series against Chouaib Bouloudinat of Algeria in the super heavyweight class semi-final. The 27-year-old local world-class boxer will face Mihai Nistor of Romania in the gold medal match.

Host nation China has seven boxers in the finals and Romania, Lithuania and Kyrgyzstan two each, while seven other nations have qualified one athlete each for the 1st World Combat Games’ finals.

AIBA Article

Photo: The AIBA

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BOXING TITLE FIGHT SCHEDULE 2010

All information provided subject to changes

Thursday 2 September to Friday 10 September

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• Thursday 2 September 2010

Le Montage, Lilyfield, New South Wales, Australia

Television: Australia FOX

Heavyweight – Kali Meehan      Vs Evans Quinn

Vacant IBF Pan Pacific heavyweight title

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• Friday 3 September 2010

Parque Andrés Quintana Roo, Cozumel, Quintana Roo, Mexico

Bantamweight   – Jose Salgado Vs Miguel Tique

Interim WBC Youth Intercontinental bantamweight title

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• Friday 3 September 2010

Kad Choengdoi, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Minimumweight – Oleydong Sithsamerchai Vs Porpramook

WBC minimumweight title

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• Saturday 4 September 201

Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Television: Hungary Sport 1

Featherweight – John Simpson Vs Stephen Smith

Commonwealth (British Empire) featherweight title

Super featherweight – Roman Martinez Vs Ricky Burns

WBO Super Featherweight title

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• Saturday 4 September 2010

Club Once Unidos, Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Light flyweight – Luis Alberto Lazarte Vs Nerys Espinoza

IBF light flyweight title

Welterweight – Rodolfo Ezequiel Martinez Vs Uilian Santana Barauna

WBC Mundo Hispano welterweight title

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• Saturday 4 September 2010

Lanxess-Arena, Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Television: Germany SAT1

Middleweight – Felix Sturm Vs Giovanni Lorenzo

WBA Super World middleweight title

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• Saturday 4 September 2010

Hotel Rincón del Montero., Parras, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico

Super flyweight – Daniel Noriega Vs Alejandro Moreno

WBA Fedecentro super flyweight title

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• Saturday 4 September 2010

Coliseo Olimpico de la UG, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Television: United States FOX Espanol   United States FOX   Mexico Televisa   Mexico Azteca

Super featherweight – Jorge Solis Vs Francisco Cordero

Interim WBA World super featherweight title

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• Saturday 4 September 2010

Auditorium Teopanzolco, Cuernavaca, México, Mexico

Welterweight – Antonio Pitalua Vs Joe Rivera

Vacant WBC FECARBOX welterweight title

Light flyweight – Omar Nino Romero Vs Ronald Barrera

WBC Light flyweight title

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• Saturday 4 September 2010

Arena Solidaridad, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico

Flyweight – Julio Cesar Miranda Vs Ronald Ramos

WBO flyweight title

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• Saturday 4 September 2010

Sportpark Arena, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Welterweight- Jan Zaveck Vs Rafal Jackiewicz

IBF welterweight title

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• Saturday 4 September 2010

Korakuen Hall, Tokyo, Japan

Light middleweight – Charlie Ota Vs Tadashi Yuba

OPBF light middleweight title

Japanese light middleweight title

Lightweight – Nihito Arakawa Vs Mitsuya Omura

Japanese lightweight title

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• Saturday 4 September 2010

HamiltonFairgrounds , Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Lightweight – Adrien Broner Vs Guillermo Sanchez

WBC Youth Intercontinental super featherweight title

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• Saturday 4 September 2010

Sportpalace Meteor, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine

Middleweight – Maksym Bursak Vs Bryan Vera

WBO Inter-Continental middleweight title

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• Saturday 4 September 2010

Harare(Salisbury), Zimbabwe

Heavyweight – Tamsanqa Dube Vs Nsitu Mbaya

WBA Pan African heavyweight title

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• Sunday 5 September 2010

International Conference Hall, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Flyweight – Rocky FuentesVs Yasuto Aritomi

OPBF flyweight title

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• Friday 10 September 2010

Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina

Television: Argentina Direct TV

Light welterweight – Monica Silvina Acosta Vs Lely Luz Florez

WBC female light welterweight title

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• Friday 10 September 2010

Contursi, Salerno, Campania, Italy

Middleweight – Elio Cotena Vs Michele Mottolese

Vacant IBF Mediterranean middleweight title

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• Friday 10 September 2010

Memorial Hall, Kansas City, Kansas, United States

Light middleweight – Carson Jones Vs Rogerio Pereira

NABA light middleweight title

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• Friday 10 September 2010

Chiangyun, Udon Thani, Thailand

Super flyweight – Duangpetch KokietgymVs  Suelo

PABA super flyweight title

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• Friday 10 September 2010

Bragado, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Cruiserweight – Martin David Islas Vs Marcelo Hugo Pablo Lamadrid

Vacant South American cruiserweight title

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• Friday 10 September 2010

Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina

Television: Argentina Direct TV

Lightweight – Marcelino Nicolas Lopez Vs Jeremias Ezequiel Castillo

WBC Latino lightweight title

Boxing – Cordina Joseph the Welsh boxer of Maltese origin took silver in the 56 Kg at the “World Combat Games” after he lost to ZHANG Jiawei in the finals.
His teammate Jenklins Christopher took bronze in the 64 Kg.

The experienced lightweight fighter returned to the ring this year when he became National Champion in February. Talasbayev’s main target is to qualify for his third Olympic Games in London as first Kyrgyz boxer.

Kant-based Talasbayev won his quarter-final contest against Tariq Zia of Pakistan by 12:8 and will therefore travel back home with at least a bronze medal. In his next bout he will face Polish youngster Tomasz Michelus.

Talasbayev’s new compatriot, 22-year-old welterweight boxer Maksat Alimbayev, was born in Kazakhstan in 1988 but changed his nationality this year because he could not get involved in the Kazakh national team.

Alimbayev reached the semi-final after beating Algeria’s Ilyas Abbadi who competed at the AIBA Youth World Championships in Baku. The Kyrgyz boxer will be a great match against King’s Cup winner Maimati Tusunqiong of China in the semi-final.

The young local boxer is one of the biggest talents in China and he has got a good chance to be included in his country’s squad for the Asian Games. Tusunqiong won against Czech Martin Svoboda in the quarter-final by 12:3 in the welterweight division.

Another Chinese boxer, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Tournament winner Meng Fanlong, won his first contest in Beijing against Romanian Cezar Juratoni in an unexpectedly close bout. The Chinese athlete who took part in the 2009 AIBA World Championships in Milan will fight against Ahmed El-Hendawi of Egypt for the final.

Panamerican Junior Champion 17-year-old Dagoberto Aguero of the Dominican Republic in his second tournament among elite boxers outpointed Moldova’s newcomer Gheorghe Dascal and will face Chinese National Games winner Li Chao in the semi-final, who defeated Mohammed Bedir of Egypt by 7:0 in the 52kg weight class.

Vasile Belous of Moldova is only 22, but he has been a member of the national elite team since 2006 and therefore had enough experience to beat Jan Romanovskij of Lithuania in the welterweight quarter-final.

The World Combat Games continue with twenty-two semifinals in the next competition day, with at least half of the remaining boxers under 21 years old.

Source & Article – AIBA

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Eric J. Parthen takes up the reins of WSB Americas this week and his first task will be to set up the new WSB Americas office in Colorado Springs.

Parthen is a 1994 magna cum laude graduate from Augustana College and was previously the Director of National Governing Body (NGB) Development for the United States Olympic Committee (USOC).  Tasked with starting this new division in March, 2005, Parthen and his staff worked to develop enhanced organizational capabilities in the national sport governing bodies that the USOC oversees.

Parthen first started with the USOC in the fall of 1993 after earning an internship during his senior year at Augustana. After graduation, he spent 18 months working as an Engagement Controller for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) before returning to the USOC in April, 1996.  Since then, he has held numerous positions in the Olympic Family including most recently as the Executive Director of USA Boxing, where he led all staff operations for the national governing body for the sport of amateur boxing.

Under his leadership, USA Boxing won two medals at the 2004 Olympic Games including the first Gold medal since 1996. In addition, Parthen stabilized operations and significantly increased revenue by engaging new partners during his nearly three year term.

In recognition of his various achievements, Parthen was a 2005 recipient of the “Finest Under Forty Outstanding Young Alumnus Award” from the Augustana College Alumni Association.  In addition, he was profiled in the Colorado Springs Business Journal’s “2003 Forty Achievers Under 40.”

An active volunteer for the Colorado Springs chapter of the United Way and various other local charities, Parthen and his wife, Kelly, reside in Colorado Springs, Colorado with their 5 year old son, Kale, and their 3 year old daughter, Makena.

Source: WSB

Photo: WSB

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The city of Moscow in Russia today became the third of the twelve WSB franchisees to launch its team name and logo. The KREMLIN BEARS will be competing in the WSB European conference against teams from Istanbul, Milan and Paris.

The KREMLIN BEARS External Relations & Development Director Anna Fedorova commented on the corporate identity: “In searching for a suitable identity for our franchise we wanted to avoid stereotypical images of boxing. In doing so, we are aiming to expand our target audience and draw the attention of those who loves sports, but who have not necessarily seen a boxing match. We want to see more women, youths, businessmen and politicians at our events. By analogy to other franchisees of the WSB we have used the name of an animal, a symbol of Russia, for our team. The bear is a huge, furious, yet clever animal. Furthermore, it is one of the few predatory animals that rise on their hind legs in to attack. We think that this logo is easy to remember and is ideally suited to team merchandise. The brand book is ready now and we plan to start a line of interesting high-quality souvenir products for fans of boxing and our team”.

Source: WSB

Photo: WSB

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