Young Georgian cruiserweight Yago Kiladze (16-0, 11 KOs) made a short work of hugely overmatched Hungarian Zoltan Czekus (14-5-1, 7 KOs) to acquire a vacant WBA I/C belt in style. WBA #15 Kiladze hurt Czekus with his first body punch of the fight and dropped him thrice with same blows en route to the first-round KO at 2:45.

One of the most brutal knockouts of the night (even though there were only a few of them) was scored in an only non-vacant title fight of the night, when WBA #12 and EBA super middleweight champion Server Emurlayev (19-0, 7 KOs) ended his fight with too-brave-for-his-own-good Estonian Anton Sjomkin (10-3, 9 KOs) with a scary left-right double at 2:57 of the eighth, which had Sjomkin down and immediately out. Emurlayev dominated the fight before scoring crisp combinations at will against the former BBU international titleholder.

In a brutal beatdown, WBA #5 junior welterweight Wladimir Kravets (24-0, 15 KOs) acquired a vacant EBA 140lb title with a dominant ten-round stoppage of French light-hitter Bastien Laforge (12-2-1, 1 KO). Laforge was down in the first and was almost stopped in the second after a major right hand by Kravets. Laforge managed to survive and even gave a stern test to the Ukrainian, who was fighting dangerous with his head and was deducted a point in round seven. In the tenth, Kravets increased his pressure and finally got the stoppage of badly bloodied Laforge at 0:48 of the tenth after a major left hand.=

In the first title match of the night, lanky veteran power puncher Stanislav Merdov (32-7, 24 KOs) engaged into a street brawl with Georgian Nikoloz Berkatsashvili (17-7, 7 KOs) and took him out in two bloody give-and-take rounds of two-way action. Merdov was hurt repeatedly at the beginning of the second after the tedious first, turned the tide with his body punches and scored three consecutive liver knockdowns to tag an automatic stoppage by referee Mickey Vann. Time was 2:56.

Local light middleweight Artiom Karpets (12-0, 5 KOs) did what he should scoring a dominant decision over tough-as-nails countryman Nikolay Korenev (2-6). Scores were almost identical: 80-72, 80-72 and 80-73 - for still undefeated Kravets.

Artiom Redko (18-2-1, 9 KOs) looked less than spectacular in scoring a hard-fought eight-round unanimous decision over quality journeyman Ivan Maslov (6-7-1). Scores were a bit wide: 80-72, 79-73 and 80-73 - for the Ukrainian. BoxingScene saw it 78-75 - also for Artiom Redko.

In a tactical affair between two durable veterans, local boxer and former EBU title challenger Andriy Kudriavtsev (35-8, 15 KOs), 34, got back into the winning column following his spirited but losing effort in John Murray fight last autumn with a unanimous decision over 43-year old defensive specialist Rakhim Mingaleev (27-65-2, 8 KOs). Scores were: 60-54 (twice) and 60-55.

Scorching middleweight gun Ruslan Shcheliov moved up to 5-0, with 5 KOs, after the first-round annihilation of fading Estonian professional spoiler-clown Leontiy Votontsuk (19-48-1, 6 KOs). Vorontsuk was down firstly on a hard left hand to the jaw and then twice on liver punches for the fight to be stopped at 2:29 of the first.

Russian bantamweight trialhorse Ravil Mukhamadiarov (7-37, 6 KOs) got his 38th loss in a lopsided style dropping a unanimous decision to rising super bantamweight prospect Alexander Yegorov (5-0, 3 KOs): 54-60 (twice) and 53-60.

Flyweight Alexander Grischuk (4-0, 1 KO) earned a clear-cut yet not scintillating unanimous decision over Estonian journeyman Sergey Tassimov (9-35-2): 60-52 and 60-54 (twice). There were no knockdowns.

In a starting contest of the night at "Cosmos" circus in Donetsk, Ukraine, Armenian Gevorg Avetisyan (1-0) got a split call over fellow debutant Wladimir Kulsha (0-1) with scores: 40-37 (x2) and 36-40. Boxingscene saw this fight as a draw: 38-38.