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Second Stage of the WBC Boxing Grand Prix Concludes with Great Success: Heavyweight and Featherweight


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The second stage of the innovative WBC Boxing Grand Prix tournament, a vision of WBC President for Life José Sulaimán, With the support of Riyadh Season and His Excellency, Turki Alalshikh, has been a resounding success.

The tournament will be broadcast live on http://DAZN.com/wbc from the Global Theatre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

The fights took place today in the heavyweight and featherweight divisions, in a day filled with excitement, as the winners took another step closer to winning the “José Sulaiman, Flame of Hope” trophy.

These are the featherweight fights results:

Bekizizwe Innocent Maitse (South Africa) 8-1-0 (3 KOs) defeated Juma Ramadhani Choki (Tanzania) 10-1-1 (3 KOs) in a very technical fight where both boxers showed great qualities.

In the second fight of the day, Ayubkhon Bakhtiyorov (Uzbekistan) 8-0-0 (5 KOs) was I the midst of a fierce fight with Jhon Sebastian Bolaño Mendoza (Colombia) 9-1-0 (8 KOs). Bakhtiyorov did better to take the victory by decision.

Muhamet Qamili (Italy) 16-0-0 (7 KOs) defeated Holy Dorgbetor (Ghana) 14-1-1 (8 KOs) in an intense fight, with a high volume of punches, a cut, and a lot of intelligence.

Yoni Valverde (France) 15-0-0 (3 KOs) faced Oleksandr Solomennikov (Ukraine) 16-2-0 (8 KOs). The latter made his appearance as a substitute for Tyshawn Denson of the United States, who had an allergy and was unable to compete. The fight was fairly even and competitive, but the Frenchman earned a well-deserved victory by demonstrating his superior qualities in the ring.

Yusuf Adisa Adeniji (Nigeria) 16-0-0 (10 KOs) defeated Alexandr Kovrigin (Kazakhstan) 8-2-0 (6 KOs) by majority decision.

Troy Nash (USA) 5-0-0 (1 KO) defeated Zholdas Zhengissov (Kazakhstan) 9-1-0 (4 KOs) in a fight that the American dominated based on his great defense and accuracy.
In one of the best fights of the day due to the number of punches and intensity, Brandon Mejia Mosqueda (Mexico) 10-0-0 (9 KOs) defeated Gulraj Singh Powar (United Kingdom) 12-1-0 (1 KO).

Iman Joshua Lee (USA) 14-0-0 (8 KOs) secured the last ticket to the next round of the tournament by defeating the tough Héctor Alejandro Munguía (Mexico) 15-1-1 (9 KOs).
These are the Heavyweight fights results:
In the first fight of the biggest division, Dante Stone (USA) 19-0-1 (17 KOs) defeated Emiliano Mendoza (Argentina) 5-1-1 (1 KO) by decision.

Keaton Gomes (South Africa) 12-3-0 (10 KOs) scored a spectacular victory by knocking out Alija Mesic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) 2-1-0 (2 KOs) in the fourth round.

Devon Young (USA) 9-0-0 (7 KOs) defeated Jonathan Vergara (Argentina) 9-1-1 (4 KOs) with a wide-open victory.

In a real train crash, Kevin Ramírez (Argentina) 10-0-1 (4 KOs) defeated Reagan Apanu (Congo) 3-1-0 (1 KO) by decision.

Piotr Lacz (Poland) 14-0-0 (10 KOs) knocked out Marko Milun (Croatia) 1-1-0 (0) in the first round.

In an interesting fight between former Olympians, Lazizbek Mullojonov (Uzbekistan) 7-0-0 (6 KOs) secured the victory by dominating Youness Baalla (Morocco) 2-1-1 (2 KOs).
In what looked like a fight that would end in a decision, Ahmed Krnjic (Boznia & Herzegovina) 5-0-0 (4 KOs) defeated Davide Brito (Italy) 7-2-0 (3 KOs) by TKO.

In the final duel of the day, Tsotne Rogava (Ukraine) 12-0-0 (8 KOs) defeated Vitaliy Stalchenko (Ukraine) 10-1-0 (6) by unanimous decision.


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