News - Yuriy Nuzhnenko

It appears the WBA has given their welterweight champion, Miguel Cotto (31-0, 25KOs), until December to meet his mandatory, unbeaten Yuriy Nuzhnenko (27-0, 13 K0s). Nuzhnenko won the WBA's interim-welterweight title last December with a close points win over Frederic Klose in Cannes, France. Gilberto Jesus Mendoza, executive vice-president of the WBA, told Primera Hora that Cotto has permission from the sanctioning body read more ...

Brovary. A small town-satellite of Kyiv, which is situated on the Kyiv - Chernigiv highway, or if you like it Kyiv – St Petersburg. This is a small, but famous for its athletes town. Brovary Olympic Reserve Collage gave to world a lot of famous athletes. Among the most outstandings are boxers. For Yuriy Nuzhnenko everything has begun according to the typical scneme: it was the brother who went to the gym first, Yuriy went after him. After the win in the Kyiv Tournament, native Kyivite was proposed to move to Brovary read more ...