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2010-2011 World Series of Boxing Season
January 17th, 2011 | 
Author: At the half-way point in the 2010-2011 World Series of Boxing season, Paris United remain at the top of the European conference after a 4-1 home win against second-placed Milano Thunder on Friday night.
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Sunday 16th January.
Milan’s loss was compounded by the Astana Arlans taking over as the best second-placed team after a 5-0 home win over the Incheon Red Wings on Saturday night. The top team in each conference, plus the best second-placed team go through to the play-offs in April.
Backed by some 2000 fans, unbeaten Irishman John Joseph Nevin opened proceedings for the home team at the Halle Carpentier against Ukrainian Vitaliy Volkov. Nevin started aggressively and built up a lead to win by unanimous decision and top the individual standings at bantamweight, ahead of team-mate Nordine Oubaali.
Ludovic Groguhe also climbed to the top of the individual standings after making short work of his light heavyweight contest against 20-year-old Entoni Juric. Two rounds were enough for the Croatian as Groguhe won by technical knock-out. “This was important to score 4 points at least,” said Brahim Asloum after the fight. “Now we are on top of the Conference, and this smells good for the future”.
With an easy 4-1 victory over the Miami Gallos Thursday night, the Los Angeles Matadors stayed top of the American conference standings after the first half of the season. With 1984 Olympian Evander “The Real Deal” Holyfield sitting ringside at the Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, the Matadors once again dominated the competition, with the team’s lone blemish coming by way of walkover when they were unable to field a boxer at light heavyweight due to injury.
“The Matadors are my home team,” exclaimed Holyfield. “I love these guys and they fight with a lot of heart.”
“These guys fight a lot faster than the pros. Most U.S. fighters fight a slower style when they fight internationally so they get beat. Now that the U.S. has the World Series of Boxing, I’m sure we’ll win a lot of medals because this is giving us an opportunity to fight international opponents.”
Russell Lamour provided a rude welcoming to WSB newcomer John Joe Joyce from Ireland in the middleweight division. Joyce arrived in the States earlier in the week and was given a matchup with one of the WSB’s hottest boxers as Lamour dominated Joyce throughout and improved to 3-0 on the year, putting him third in the individual standings.
“Getting to 3-0 feels good,” said Lamour after the fight. “Each win makes me feel closer to getting to the Olympics. That’s the goal and we’re going to get there.”
The two teams won’t have to wait long for a rematch with both squads set to face each other next time out, but this time in Miami on January 27 where the Gallos have yet to lose in three matches.
The Mexico City Guerreros once again overwhelmed the Memphis Force with a 5-0 win in Southaven on Saturday night. The Guerreros, behind three WSB newcomers, earned their first road victory of the season to move to a respectable 3-3 on the year and back into second place behind the front-running Los Angeles Matadors. Josip Duric (Zagreb, Croatia) of the Guerreros defeated Chris Jones (Dallas, Texas) of the Force in his WSB debut at middleweight, dropping Jones to 0-3 on the season. After losing the first round to Jones and settling in to the new format of the WSB, Duric wouldn’t lose another round the rest of the way and scored a unanimous decision over Jones, 49-45, 49-45, 49-45. A big 10-8 decision among among all three judges in the fourth round proved to be the deciding factor.
Sweden’s Kenney Katende, who made his debut for the Guerreros as the only representative from Scandinavia in the WSB, opened with a win against Hungary’s Imre Szello. The Swedish Olympian Katende got the better of the Hungarian Olympian Szello in a unanimous decision, 48-47, 48-47, 49-46.
Jose Payares from Venezuela won out for the Guerreros in the battle of heavyweights. Payares, a 2008 Olympian, handed Cam Thompson a decisive unanimous decision loss by winning every round on all three judge’s score cards, 50-45, 50-45, 48-47.
Alisher Mahmudov got things off to a bad start for the Moscow Kremlin Bears in Istanbul on Friday night, picking up three warnings and hence a disqualification in the bantamweight bout. A knock-out for the home team’s Onur Sipal put the Istanbulls ahead in the middleweight contest and a walkover for the home team in the heavyweight bout handed them a 3-2 victory.
The Baku Fires remain overall WSB leaders after a 3-2 victory over the Beijing Dragons on Saturday night. A win for Mongolia’s Tugstsogt Nyambayar on his debut opened the scoring for Baku and the two Azeri boxers in action each won their bouts to secure the victory, with Soltan Migitinov enjoying his second consecutive technical knock-out.
Newcomer Slam Kanat impressed for the Astana Arlans in the middleweight bout at home to the Incheon Red Wings on Saturday night. The naturalized Kazakh knocked out Andranik Hakobyan in the first round. Wins on points for the rest of the team produced a clean sweep of 5-0 for the Arlans and moved them up to the position of best second-placed team overall and therefore in position to qualify for the team championships.
WSB action resumes with match weekend seven from January 27.
Mexico City Guerreros defeat Memphis Force
The World Series of Boxing (WSB) officially reached the halfway point of the league’s inaugural season Saturday with the Mexico City Guerreros once again overwhelming the Memphis Force with a 5-0 win.
The Guerreros, behind three WSB newcomers, earned their first road victory of the season to move to a respectable 3-3 on the year and back into second place behind the front-running Los Angeles Matadors in WSB Americas action. The Guerreros had a similar start to the season against the Force with a 5-0 victory as well in Mexico City, November 19. Meanwhile, the Memphis Force fall to 1-5 on the year and continue to struggle having dropped four matches in a row.
Braulio Avila (Tiaxcala, Mexico) got the evening started for the Guerreros with a unanimous decision over Detelin Dalakiev (Pleven, Bulgaria) of the Memphis Force in the bantamweight/119 pounds/54kg weight class to run his record to 2-1 on the year. Dalakiev, the 2009 World Champion, is struggling in WSB action, going 1-2 in his first three bouts and loss in a unanimous decision to Avila, 49-46, 49-46, 50-45.
Josip Duric (Zagreb, Croatia) of the Guerreros defeated Chris Jones (Dallas, Texas) of the Force in his WSB debut at middleweight/161 pounds/73 kg, dropping Jones to 0-3 on the season. After losing the first round to Jones and settling in to the new format of the WSB, Duric wouldn’t lose another round the rest of the way and scored a unanimous decision over Jones, 49-45, 49-45, 49-45. A big 10-8 decision among among all three judges in the fourth round proved to be the deciding factor.
Imre Szello (Cegled, Hungary) was impressive in his first WSB bout back on November 26 and through the first round tonight, but couldn’t find the same result the last four rounds against Kennedy Katende (Sundsvall, Sweden), another new addition to the WSB field. The Swedish Olympian Katende got the better of the Hungarian Olympian Szello in a unanimous decision, 48-47, 48-47, 49-46.
The results were similar for Force boxer Cam Thompson (Uniondale, N.Y.) who was equally impressive his first time out as a WSB boxer, but was dealt a similar fate as Szello Saturday in his matchup with Jose Payares (Caracas, Venezuela) in the battle of heavyweights. Payares, a 2008 Olympian, handed Thompson a decisive unanimous decision loss by winning every round on all three judge’s score cards, 50-45, 50-45, 48-47.
There was no bout in the lightweight/61 kg division as the Memphis Force were unable to field a boxer in that weight class. Both lightweight boxers the Force have are currently serving medical suspensions including Raynell Williams (Cleveland, Ohio) and Yahman Phelps (Cincinnati, Ohio). MC Guerrero Angel Gutierrez (Queretaro, Mexico) will receive the walkover in the weight class given he makes weight on Friday.
WSB Americas action resumes January 27 featuring rematches from week six as the Force will again entertain the Guerreros while the LA Matadors (5-1) host the Miami Gallos (3-3) all on the same night.
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WSB Individual Rankings
Matador Lightweights Headline WSB Individual Rankings after Week 4
WSB: Tuesday, 21 December 2023 - Switzerland, Lausanne
After four weeks of matches in the World Series of Boxing, a pair of Los Angeles Matador lightweights headline the individual standings with identical 2-0 records one-third of the way through the inaugural WSB season.
Eric Fowler (Houston, Texas) and Everton Lopes (Salvador de Bahia, Brazil) are the class of the lightweight division through four weeks of WSB action. Fowler has TKO’ed both his opponents thus far, while Lopes picked up a big win last week with a TKO of 2008 Olympian Raynell Williams (Cleveland, Ohio) of the Memphis Force.
The all-important individual rankings determine the top two boxers in each weight category, who will qualify for the Individual Championships in May 2011, where they will fight for qualification to the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Seven Matador boxers in all find themselves in the top-10 individual rankings. The Mexico City Guerreros have four top-10 boxers, while the Miami Gallos have three and the Memphis Force one.
Through four weeks, the LA Matadors lead the conference standings with a 3-1 team record, with 10 points overall after taking 15 of their first 20 bouts. The Guerreros and Gallos have found great success thus far at home but have struggled in their away contests as both sit at 2-2. The Guerreros have the advantage with two 5-0 wins at home. The Memphis Force are trailing the rest of the teams with a 1-3 record.
If the rankings are any indication, the middleweight division will be interesting to watch in the Americas conference in the New Year. Four boxers are ranked within the top-eight with Russell Lamour (Portland, Maine) leading the way in third place followed closely by Yamaguchi Florentino (Espirtu Santo, Brazil) in fourth position.
The light heavyweight class also has four ranked boxers from WSB Americas with Guerrero Francisco Ortega (Mexico City, Mexico) leading the field in third place. The Miami Gallos’ Trent Rawlins (Melbourne, Australia), whose impressive performances in his home ring have been the decider in the team’s home matches this year, sits in third place in the heavyweight rankings.
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World Series Boxing - Results
This past weekend saw the official launch of the World Series of Boxing (WSB) the boxing matches were spread out over three continents.
Close contests in the opening matches of the European Conference of the World Series of Boxing contrasted with shut-outs by the home teams in the American and Asian conferences this weekend as the first regular season of the World Series of Boxing started.
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Results
Milano Thunder 3 - Paris United 2
Mexico City Guerreros 5 - Memphis Force 0
Astana Arlans 5 - Incheon Red Wings 0
BeijingDragons 0 - Baku Fires 5
Istanbulls 2 - Kremlin Bears 3
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Milano Thunder & Paris United
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Milano Thunder opened the action at their home venue, the Palasharp, on Friday evening, welcoming former Olympic champion Brahim Asloum’s team Paris United. The visitors were unfazed by Milan’s strong line-up, featuring two Olympians and one world champion among their national boxers alone, and made a strong start as John Joe Nevin dismissed Olympic bronze medallist Vincenzo Picardi on a unanimous decision in the bantamweight opener.
“He’s an Olympic bronze medallist and I knew I was the underdog,” Nevin said. “But I’ve got a great team looking after me at Paris United and I’ve been learning some things. It’s great to get a victory over five rounds.”
After an easy win for world champion Domenico Valentino at lightweight, Sergiy Derevyanchenko cemented the home team’s lead with a devastating performance that ended with a technical knock-out in the first round of the middleweight contest. From there the action continued apace, with Paris United’s Ludovic Groguhe edging ahead to win the evening’s closest bout at light heavyweight.
“I’ve always wanted to box pro. I think it’s my style of boxing,” said the 24 year old from Strasbourg. “I was really well prepared and my trainers have been doing a good job over the past few months. It’s great to be training as a team because we can help each other.”
Clemente Russo, 2007 World Champion and 2008 Olympic silver medallist, put in a workmanlike performance to beat Zied Jouini in the heavyweight duel and seal the 3-2
victory for the home side.
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Mexico City Guerreros & Memphis Force
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Mexico City Guerreros powered ahead to a 5-0 shut-out on their opening home match, which Ivan Khodabakhsh, Chief Operating Officer for the WSB, who was in attendance, described as “an exciting start for WSB Americas”.
“The bouts were closer than the results showed and the fans got a great experience with this new, high-velocity style of boxing,” he continued. “So many people have worked tirelessly to launch the WSB and now that we’ve had two events, there’s a true sense of accomplishment. But much work remains in order for us to get where we want to be by season’s end.”
Long-time U.S. boxing analyst and former lightweight world champion Sean O’Grady had a front row seat to the WSB launch in Mexico City and claimed it a success: “I’ve been waiting 30 years for something like this to come along in this sport,” he proclaimed.
Led by head coach Francisco Bonilla, the Mexico City Guerreros featured a team comprised of four Mexican fighters, Brazilian Yamaguchi Florentino and a supportive mariachi band.
“In the beginning I was very nervous,” said Avila, who got the shutout started for the Guerreros. “It took me a moment to get through the emotions of the first couple rounds and adjust to this new style. All of this is very exciting with the music, format and all of our fans, but it’s a new experience. By the end, I felt strong.”
The Memphis Force had difficulty adjusting to the extreme altitude of Mexico City (7,350 feet) compared to Memphis which sits at 331 feet above sea level. Many of the Force boxers opened leads the first two rounds only to watch them disappear as the fights entered the latter rounds. Boxing for the Force were four U.S. fighters and Mongolian Olympian Munkh Erdene Uranchimeg.
“Guys had fights they could have won,” said Memphis Force head coach Anthony Bradley. “We learned a hard lesson tonight that this isn’t amateur boxing anymore and there’s a big difference in this type of style from what they are used to. They might have been good amateurs, but they now have to prove themselves in this new format. The altitude was a big factor but you can blame us for not doing the technical things to win the fights. We’ll be much better our next time out.”
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Astana Arlans & Incheon Red Wings
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The weekend’s third match saw another shut-out, as the Astana Arlans exploited their home advantage to the full against the Incheon Red Wings with five clear wins on points. Astana’s heavyweight international boxers completed the strong home contingent, with Ghana’s Maxwell Amponsah continuing his success from last month’s WSB Exhibition Match and Hungary’s Istvan Bernath getting his first taste of this new style of boxing in the heavyweight bout.
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Beijing Dragons & Baku Fires
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The Beijing Dragons got off to a shaky start on their first weekend, competing away to the Baku Fires at the Serhedchi Sport Complex in Baku. The team were unable to field the mandatory international boxer, having been unable to secure a re-entry visa to China for any of their international boxers three days before their opening bout - the deadline for team entries. To compound their problems, their light heavyweight Xuezhi Jiao came in a full 1.2 kilos under the minimum weight for the 80-85kg category.
This meant one walkover for Beijing after Magomed Abuldhamidov and Ramal Amanov had already taken the lead for the home team in the first two bouts. But in the end all three remaining bouts were adjudicated walkovers in favor of the Baku Fires after the Beijing boxers failed to enter the ring, handing the home team three points and putting them joint top of the Asia Conference with the Astana Arlans.
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Istanbulls & Kremlin Bears
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The final match of the weekend pitched the Istanbulls away to Moscow’s Kremlin Bears at the Barvikha Luxury Village on the outskirts of Moscow. The Istanbulls handed 18-year-old Selcuk Eker the responsibility of opening the action in the bantamweight contest. Eker opened with a win but the home team responded with two technical knock-outs in the lightweight and light heavyweight bouts and a win on points for Aptil Ustarhanov in the middleweight contest to give the Bears a 3-1 lead going into the heavyweight finale. But the Istanbulls’ Sivko Oleksiy salvaged a valuable point for the visitors by beating the 2009 Youth World Championship silver medalist, Arbi Madaev.
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The first match week of the regular season will be completed on Tuesday evening at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, where the home team Miami Gallos welcome the Los Angeles Matadors.
World Series of Boxing
WSB Debuts This Weekend In Three Continents
World-class Boxers in the Mix for the First WSB Matches Worldwide
WSB Report: November 2010 - Switzerland, Lausanne.
The World Series of Boxing debuts this weekend with six matches being held across three continents. The Dolce & Gabbana Milano Thunder team has the honor of hosting the first-ever match this Friday evening against Paris United at the Palasharp on the outskirts of Milan. The Mexico City Guerreros will welcome Memphis Force hours later in the first match of the Americas conference. On Saturday, Moscow’s Kremlin bears host the Istanbulls at the Barvikha Luxury village and the first two matches in the Asia conference will take place, with the Astana Arlans taking on the Incheon Red Wings at home and the Beijing Dragons travelling to Azerbaijan to face the Baku Fires.
Milan has made a strong opening gambit, announcing a team that includes two Olympic medalists and a world champion - all of them Italian: Vincenzo Picardi (bantamweight), Domenico Valentino (lightweight) and Clemente Russo (heavyweight). Head coach Francesco Damiani has added two of his international contingent into the mix: Sergiy Derevyanchenko of the Ukraine and Nikolajs Grisunins of Latvia, who will be competing at middleweight (73kg) and light heavyweight (85kg) respectively.
Moscow’s Kremlin Bears take on the Istanbulls at the Barvikha Luxury Village on Saturday evening. The Moscow squad is the perfect WSB mix of experience and new talent, with heavyweight Arbi Madaev, silver medalist at the 2009 European Youth Championships and light heavyweight Zhavlonbek Usmanov, bronze medalist at the 2006 World Junior Championships 2006, joined by three young Russian boxers looking to make their international debut with the World Series of Boxing.
In the first WSB match in the Americas conference, the Mexico City Guerreros will welcome the Memphis Force to the World Trade Center for their first home match on Friday evening. Head coach Francisco Bonilla has chosen a young squad for the first encounter, but one in which the boxers nevertheless hold three medals from this year’s American Continental Championships between them. The second match in the Americas conference takes place next Tuesday, meaning that under WSB rules the Miami Gallos and Los Angeles Matadors have until Friday night to name their five-man selections for their encounter at the American Airlines Arena.
Ghana’s Maxwell Amponsah is destined for fame in Kazakhstan. After winning over the home crowd at the WSB Exhibition Match against the Istanbulls last month, the 24-year-old light heavyweight has been selected for the team’s first home match in the Asia Conference on Saturday against the Incheon Red Wings. While Amponsah is the only African competing in this weekend’s matches, Dongsik Seo is the only Korean in the Incheon side chosen for the opening match. Competing at bantamweight, he will be joined by an Uzbek, Bahodirjon Sultonov, at lightweight, two Moldovans, Victor Cotiujanschii and Mihael Muntean, at middleweight and heavyweight respectively, and Kiwi Reece Papuni, a quarter-finalist at this year’s Commonwealth Games in Delhi, at light heavyweight as the Incheon Red Wings pool their international talent.
The second match in the Asia conference sees the Beijing Dragons travel to Azerbaijan, where they will take on the Baku Fires at the Sarhadchi Olympic Center on Saturday evening. The home team’s line-up includes the Ukraine’s Denys Poyatsyka, bronze medalist at this year’s European Championships, as its mandatory international boxer, as well as two newly naturalized Azeri citizens. Middleweight Soltan Migitinov and heavyweight Magomedrasul Medzhidov have both competed for Russia, Medzhiov taking the gold medal at the 11th Umakhanov Memorial tournament in Makhachkala, Russia, last year.
The Beijing team is putting a firm emphasis on young talent, with the oldest member of its squad only 23 years old. Unfortunately, due to visa issues the team has been unable to field an international boxer and will therefore forfeit one bout under WSB rule 2.1.5, which requires at least one international boxer to compete for a team at each match.
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Photo: World Champion, Domenico Valentino
