Per-Ake Persson Tatiana Perez (6-0-1) won the vacant EBU minimumweight title with a unanimous decision over Belgian Amy Naert (12-6). After ten it was scored 99-91 on all cards for Perez. In the chief support, in a fight for the vacant WBC Baltic light-heavyweight title, Ukrainian, fighting out of Lithuania, Bohdan Sobol (19-1-1) stopped Sweden’s, […]
Per-Ake Persson Englishman Jack Scott (20-3) outscored Austrian Harald Pfingstl (18-1) in a fight for the WBC Asian (no joke) light-heavyweight title. Fight was held on Saturday night in Bangkok, Thailand. Judges scored 98-92 twice and 100-90, all in favor of Scott. For Pfingstl was first loss in career.
Per-Ake Persson Lithuanian welterweight Egidijus Kavaliauskas (25-3-1) won the EBU title with a split and according to Spanish sources a controversial decision over defending champion Samuel Molina (32-4-1). After twelve rounds of boxing the judges had it 115-113 twice for Kavaliuskas and 115-114 for Molina.
Bulgaria’s Radoslav Rosenov and Turkey’s Emrah Yasar defended their thrones at the European U23 Boxing Championships in Budapest where Hungary earned its first ever male title in the front of the home crowd. Azerbaijan’s Subhan Mamedov became the first male winner in Budapest following his success over Ukraine’s Maksym Rudyk. France’s Izaya Gaucher had a […]
Poland topped the medal table in the women’s part of the European U23 Boxing Championships in Budapest after all of the 10 female finals have concluded. England’s Kelsey Oakley and Poland’s Natalia Kuczewska had an equal first round in the opening female final of the championships. The 22-year-old Polish stepped into the gas in time […]
Per-Ake Persson Light-heavy Jean Claude Mifsud, with only three recorded fights, stopped Swede living in Malta for some years, Niclas Elfstedt (14-3-1) who didn’t come out for the eleventh round due to an injured rib. Mifsud (3-0) was ahead on points. This was for the vacant WBU light heavyweight title. Super-welter Clarence Goyeram (9-0) knocked […]
All of the semi-finals are concluded on the fifth competition day at the European U23 Boxing Championships in Budapest. Poland’s Olympic silver medallist Julia Szeremeta delivered her best performance in the semi-finals of the women’s 57kg and she defeated her neighbour, Slovakia’s Bibiana Lovasova with brilliant style of boxing. Her final opponent will be a […]
Per-Ake Persson It’s not often Serbian Jelena Janicijevic fights professionally but when she does, she does it well. The now 40-year-old turned pro in France in 2018 and began to make some noise when she knocked out Swedish prospect Joanna Ekedahl (then 8-0) in Denmark in 2019. In 2020-21 she fought for the EBU title […]
The General Statistics of the European U23 Boxing Championships Budapest 2025: – Number of participants in the event: 271 – Number of participating countries: 33 – Number of R&Js in the event: 30 – The biggest delegations in the event: Ukraine and Turkey with 20 boxers – The smallest delegations in the event: Iceland and […]
Per–Ake Persson Newly crowned EBU Silver heavyweight champion Kem Ljungquist (21-1) has French title holder Mattar Garcia (9-0) as mandatory challenger. Kem also holds the WBA Baltic title and is ranked number nine by the WBA and eyes bigger paydays. It’s doubtful he goes through with a defense of the EBU Silver title. Garcia won […]
