It is on. Former WBA (interim) light middleweight titleholder Nobuhiro Ishida (23-6-2, 8 KOs), who acclaimed international fame after vaporizing highly regarded James Kirkland in just a round, will try to repeat this trick against possibly a harder opponent. On Dec. 17 in Zaporizhyya, Ukraine, the lanky Japanese stylist will clash his horns with Gerogian bomber Avtandil Khurtsidze (26-2-2, 17 KOs) read more ...

In the main event, Kiev-based Georgian middleweight slugger Avtandil Khurtsidze (26-2-2, 16 KOs), who was once ranked #1 by the WBA and who now holds the IBO’s version of the belt, made short work of glass-shot American Jason LeHoullier (21-7-1, 8 KOs) in a non-title affair read more ...

Avtandil Khurtsidze (22-2-2, 13KOs) and Mariusz Cendrowski (21-2, 8KOs) will face each other for the vacant IBO middleweight title at the Sport Palace in Tbilisi, Georgia. Neither boxer had trouble making the middleweight limit. Khurtsidze back in the ring in his first outing since the close points loss to Hassan N’Dam N’Jikam read more ...

An opponent was named for world-ranked Georgian middleweight Avtandil Khurtsidze (22-2-2, 13 KOs), who headlines a local fight card in Tbilisi, Georgia, on March 13. WBA 1 ranked 160-pounder will take on experienced Polish battler Mariusz Cendrowski (21-2-2, 8 KOs) for the vacant IBO middleweight title, vacated by Peter Mandfredo Jr. The show is being arranged by Kiev-based Elite Boxing Promotions read more ...

Newly created Elite Boxing Promotion, which has recently been formed out of previously existing promotional company with the same name and of National Boxing Promotion, ruled by Vadim Bukhkalov, will load up a huge, telling boxing card on August 28 at the Square of Independence (“Maydan Nezalezhnosti”) in Kiev, Ukraine read more ...