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Lots of UBO related results…
On January 22 in Tbilisi, Georgia UBO Youth
Middleweight Champion Boris Mdinaradze
improved his record to 20-1 (16) when he stopped
Dato Davitidze in the second round of a scheduled
eight rounder at the Kandelaki Sports Hall (named
after Georgia’s biggest boxing star, and current
boxing federation president, former Heavyweight
contender George Kandelaki).
22-year-old Mdinaradze won the
UBO title last September with an
impressive performance in front
of around 5000 spectators
outdoors in the central square
of Gori, stopping Tanzanian
Seleman Saidi in round four.
On the same show, former UBO
title-challenger Nugzar
Margvelashvili stopped David
Kereselidze in three to take his
record to 23-14 (10).
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All-Africa Light Heavyweight
Champion Hany Atiyo
stayed unbeaten and retained his
Egyptian national title in the
process on January 27 at the
Cairo University Indoor Hall in
Giza, Egypt when he won a
unanimous decision over Mazur
Ali.
Besides being the Egyptian
champion and the UBO All-Africa
champion, Atiyo (14-0, 8 KOs) is
also the WBC-ABU title-holder, a
championship he won in October
by stopping Boniface Kabore in
Burkina Faso.
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After three straight losses (all
on points against opponents with
a combined 55-2 record), former
UBO International Super
Middleweight Champion Dhafir
Smith returned to winning
ways on January 28 when he
outscored Quinton Rankin at the
First District Plaza in
Philadelphia.
Smith became a UBO champion in
December 2010 by defeating
former IBF/IBO World champion
Jeff “Left Hook” Lacy in a
major upset, but then hit that
rough patch with three losses on
the trot. A very good boxer but
lacking a big punch, Smith
currently has a deceiving
25-22-7 (4) record.
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On the same night (1.28) but
thousands of miles away in
Morogoro, Tanzania, former UBO
Inter-Continental Middleweight
king Francis Cheka
extended his winning streak to
ten by scoring a unanimous
decision over recently-stripped
WBF World Champion Karama
Nyaliwila.
Now fighting at Super
Middleweight, Cheka improved to
24-6-1 (13). The last time he
lost it was on points over ten
rounds in 2008 to Matthew
Macklin in Manchester,
England. Macklin, as we all
know, went on to beat Felix
Sturm without getting the actual
victory, and is now fighting
pound-for-pound star Sergio
Martinez in March.
Cheka is scheduled to take on
Mada Maugo (14-7, 10 KOs) for
the third time on April 28 after
winning their two first outings
by majority decision last year.
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Female World Super Bantamweight
Champion Renata Szebeledi
(15-8, 8 KOs) from Hungary is
also on a nice run, winning for
the ninth straight time on
January 28. Szebeledi went to
Slovakia and won a unanimous
decision over undefeated
Romanian Kamilla Hajas.
Since winning the UBO World
title in December 2010,
Szebeledi has proved her class
by going to Germany to pick up a
second world championship last
July when she beat Pia Mazelanik
for the WBF crown at
Bantamweight.
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