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Countdown to the WSB Individual Championships begins

PhilBoxing.com


Lausanne, Switzerland, 9 May 2012 - A month now separates us from the big showdown between the top two ranked boxers in each of the World Series of Boxing's five weight categories as the competition returns once more to the ExCeL London for a night of top-class action.

The venue for the upcoming London 2012 Olympic Games boxing event will this time host the WSB Individual Championships where ten fighters will battle it out in seven rounds of three minutes each to become World Champions.

After the electric show put on by Dynamo Moscow and Dolce & Gabbana Milano Thunder for the Team Final, the WSB is delighted to this time present its best boxers all looking to create history and take home that career defining WSB belt. Fans will be sure to be treated to some world class boxing.

Bantamweight Elias Emigdio was one of the leading lights for the Mexico City Guerreros during the regular season. The talented 20-year-old was irrepressible during his four fights as he won twice home and away to take second place in the division's ranking. His duel with Baku Fires' Gairbek Germakhanov promises to open up proceedings at the WSB Individual Championships with a bang.

Adlan Abdurashidov was the top Lightweight and after underperforming for Dynamo Moscow in the WSB Team Final, the 21-year-old orthodox Russian will want to set the record straight and re-assert himself as the best fighter in his category. The WSB belt will not come easy; in fact his opponent Juan Romero (Mexico City Guerreros), a tall and intelligent boxer, will pose a serious threat to Abdurashidov's aspirations. It will be fast and furious from the onset with both always keen to go on the attack.

Middleweight king and Ukrainian sensation Sergiy Derevyanchenko will look to retain the title that he won last season when he comes up against Baku Fires' Heybulla Mursalov. The 26-year-old from Milano Thunder is probably the best pound-for-pound fighter in the whole competition with near perfect technique. Mursalov on the other hand has that burning desire to win so it promises to be quite a spectacle when these two meet in the ring.

It will then be an-all Azeri Light Heavyweight contest when two Baku Fires heavy-hitters face-off. Top ranked Azamat Murtuzaliyev will be battling his savvy stablemate Ramazan Magomedau for supremacy. These two locking horns will be quite an experience for the spectators at the ExCeL with both boxers knowing their games inside out.

Italian superstar Clemente Russo is another fighter who will look to retain his WSB belt after the success he enjoyed in last season's Individual Championships. The 29-year-old led Milano Thunder to glory in the WSB Team Final on 2 May and will seek to extend his personal unbeaten record to fifteen fights when he faces Croatian man-mountain Filip Hrgovic. The 198cm tall Paris United man is a true Heavyweight and has delighted WSB crowds each time he has entered the ring. When these two colossi meet, it will showcase the very of best of the division of kings.

These five fights will simply be irresistible and will treat boxing fans to the very best of what the World Series of Boxing has to offer. This will also be an opportunity to get a glimpse of what the future will look like when the AIBA Professional Boxing (APB) begins in fall 2013.




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