News - Vladimir Virchis

The big WBA world middleweight title fight between puncher Maselino Masoe and technician Felix Sturm is almost here. The clash takes place on Saturday at the Color Line Arena in Hamburg, Germany. The fighters met face to face Monday at a prefight press conference. "I respect Felix Sturm and have studied videos of his fights," said the champion Masoe (26-2, 25 KOs), who arrived in Hamburg a week ago. "He is a challenger to take very seriously read more ...

Don't worry if the ground will be moving on March 11. It will be no earthquake. It will be because two elemental forces will clash on the undercard of the WBA middleweight championship between Felix Sturm and Maselino Masoe. In a thrilling heavyweight matchup “White Tyson” Ruslan Chagaev of Universum Box-Promotion takes on Vladimir Virchis “The Hunter” off the Spotlight team read more ...

All three judges Andre Van Grootenbruel 115-113,Joachim Jacobsen 115-113 and Arthur Ellensohn 116-113 scored for the undefeated Virches even though many ringside observers saw Sprott a handy winner by at least the same margin as the judges had him losing. When the officiall result was read out by the MC the Austrian crowd booed the decision read more ...

Heavyweight Vladimir Virchis 242.5 outweighed Michael Sprott 232.8 prior to their clash tomorrow evening at Freizeit Arena in Soelden, Austria. The unbeaten Virchis, 19-0 (17), of the Ukraine will defend his WBO intercontinental title against Englishman Sprott, 27-8 (14), live on Eurosport at 19:00 CET. The event is promoted by Spotlight Boxing and includes nine fights. The weigh-in took place today at Medical Center read more ...

Ukrainian power puncher Vladimir Virchis demolished Argentine Lisandro Ezquiel Diaz in the opening round in a slugfest of two heavyweight giants. Virchis, 19-0 (16), 111 kg, rolled all over Diaz, 12-6-1 (10), 108.5 kg, pinned his opponent against the ropes read more ...

Undefeated heavyweight Vladimir Virchis needed just two minutes and three seconds to dispose of his overmatched opponent Adnan Serin with a clean first round knockout. On an event in Palma de Mallorca promoted by Spotlight Boxing Virchis send his German-Turkish opponent to the canvas with a powerful left hook. Serin rose on unsteady legs and fell into the ropes before the referee stopped the fight at 2:03. read more ...

The opponent of Vladimir Virchis in his bout on the 10th of May on Palma de Mallorca, Spain will be the Turkish heavyweight Adnan Serin (12-3, 5 KOs), who lives in German city Aachen. On the professional ring Serin has got the alias Aachen Assassin. From the serious Serin’s opponents could be pointed out only Konstantin Onofrei to whom Serin lost the fight by MD in March, 2004. read more ...

German based Ukrainian Taras Bidenko suffered the first knockout loss of his career against his massive countryman Vladimir Virchis who stopped Spotlight Boxing’s prospect in the final round of a heated battle between two European heavyweight top contenders. Virchis decked Bidenko in round 2 with one of many powerful right hands that he landed during the contest and he also had the upper hand in the following two rounds. But in round five Bidenko gained more control of the fight and systematically outscored Virchis with his jab and precious combinations while moving from side to side. But the powerful 115,6 kg Virchis remained highly dangerous up until the final bell. Just as the final round ran down it appeared that the almost 15 kg lighter Bidenko would come out as the winner by decision. But Virchis landed his right hand again several times in round 12 until he dropped the exhausted Bidenko again. As Bidenko barely rose on unsteady legs referee Erich Stümpfl called a halt to the bout after one minute and 54 seconds of the final round. read more ...

Boxnews.com.ua caught up with Taras Bidenko to get his thoughts on his upcoming fight with Vladimir Virchis tonight. Taras said that he has never been close friend to Vladimir Virchis although they trained in the same gym in Ukraine. Taras didn’t predict the KO, though he said if he would have an opportunity to hit his opponent he would do this. He made sparring with different partners from his club (Universum Box-Promotion) under the supervision of his trainer Magomed Schaburow. Many people give their preferences in this fight to Bidenko and they also predict that the fight will end before the final bell. read more ...