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Title clash in which on February 19th Yuri Nuzhnenko (30-1-1, 14 KOs) was expected to fight famous Italian pugilist Gianluca Branco (43-2-1, 22 КОs) for vacant EBU (European) welterweight title has been waived. As we reported earlier, Italian promotional company «OPI2000» which represents Branco won the purse bid and then the date and the venue of the fight were named by its representative. The next logical step from «OPI2000» was to send contract to Yuri Nuzhnenko and his promoters, i.e. «K2 East Promotions», however, the Italian side did not do it read more ...

Recent news about the fight between WBA light heavyweight ex-champion Hugo Hernan Garay (32-4, 17 KOs) and Ukrainian boxer Vyacheslav Uzelkov (22-0, 14 KOs) for the interim WBA belt came as a complete surprise for Uzelkov’s camp read more ...

At the end of January two boxing champions who fight for «K2 East Promotions», promotional company of Klitschko brothers, will leave Ukraine in order to take part in a new project in which townspeople of 26 regional centers of Ukraine will compete for the right to call their cities and towns the best Ukrainian city. Vyacheslav Uzelkov, WBA Inter-Continental light heavyweight champion and mandatory challenger for world heavyweight championship will be at the head of Vinnitsa team read more ...

Sturm: Bild Zeitung in Germany writes that WBA middleweight Felix Sturm and his company Plus One, which he co-owns with his manager Roland Bebak and wife Jasmina, have signed a deal with sports agents Ufa Sports. The deal is said to give Sturm two million EUR a fight for up to ten fights over the next three to five years read more ...

WBA Inter-Continental light middleweight champion Zaurbek Baysangurov (23-1, 17 KOs) retained his title by fifth round TKO against Frank Shabani (18-2-0, 6 КОs) on Saturday night at the Sport Palace «Yunost» in Zaporizhia, Ukraine In the co-event unbeaten Ukrainian light middleweight Dmitrij Nikulin (20-0-0, 7 КОs) celebrated the biggest win in his boxing career so far when he stopped tough Uzbek fighter Abdulaziz Matazimov (10-4-0, 4 КОs) in round 3 read more ...

Three bouts from tonight’s big and exciting boxing tournament in Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia will be broadcasted live on SecondsOutTV.com read more ...

We offer your attention final pre-fight comments of Zaur Baysangurov (22-1-0, 16 КОs) and Frank Shabani (18-1-0, 6 КОs) given by both boxers just before their fight which headlines today’s huge boxing tournament billed «World Boxing in Zaporizhia. Champions league» to be held in local Sport Palace «Yunost». In the main event Zaurbek will defend his WBA Inter-Continental light middleweight belt read more ...

Uwais Baysangurov, trainer and uncle of Zaur Baysangurov shared with us his outlook on tonight’s fight of his nephew against Frank Shabani (18-1-0, 6 КОs), a well-known boxer from Germany. «We are not in the position to underestimate Frank Shabani – any opponent could be dangerous at this level of competition. However, Zaur defeated stronger boxers – Marco Antonio Rubio, Eromosele Albert. Shabani is a fighter of European class but not top-notch world level» read more ...

On December 19th «K2 East Promotions» promotional company brings its new big and exciting boxing tournament to the city of Zaporizhia. On the eve of a huge fight card fighters stepped on the scales read more ...

On Saturday December 19th Vitaliy Rusal (24-1, 17 KOs), a famous Ukrainian boxer who fights under banners of «K2 East Promotions» promotional company of Klitschko brothers will step into the ring in his home town of Zaporizhia. He will fight in an eight-rounder against Uzbek light heavyweight Abror Oripov (3-1-1, 0 КО). Rusal’s fight is expected to be the «specialty of the house» for boxing fans from Zaporizhia since Vitaliy was born in that city and is extremely popular there read more ...