Whatever happened to Kandelaki?

Hesketh Vampire · Post by **Hesketh Vampire** » 02 Jul 2005, 18:33

What happened to that big lug Georgi Kandelaki? His pro record just peters out in 2003, still unbeaten. Anyone know? Maybe he went into modelling.....

Freiheit · Post by **Freiheit** » 02 Jul 2005, 18:42

Per Aake Persson reported this june 29th on http://www.knock-out.dk
"It´s nothing new but still deserves to be noticed that retired former WBU heavy champ George Kandelaki is the President of the federation in the Republic of Georgia."

Hesketh Vampire · Post by **Hesketh Vampire** » 02 Jul 2005, 18:48

He retired already? Okay he didn't look like a world-beater, but that seems a little excessive.

KOJOE90 · Post by **KOJOE90** » 03 Jul 2005, 07:26

Georgi Kandelaki has retired?

That's news to me.

http://www.boxrec.com/boxer_display.php?boxer_id=014589

Well I suppose if your hearts not in the game best off getting out of it before you are hurt.

jomothepure · Post by **jomothepure** » 03 Jul 2005, 07:42

Freiheit wrote:Per Aake Persson reported this june 29th on http://www.knock-out.dk
"It´s nothing new but still deserves to be noticed that retired former WBU heavy champ George Kandelaki is the President of the federation in the Republic of Georgia."

Took me a while to realise, i take it to mean he's the president of the WBU in Georgia, not actually president of Georgia the State. Phew.

(whilst I'm adding an 'of' in here - Yes Hasketh (see below) it could probably be a straight head of the Georgian boxing org.)

Hesketh Vampire · Post by **Hesketh Vampire** » 03 Jul 2005, 07:44

Or president of the boxing federation maybe, rather than the WBU. Still, a bit of a surprise, I hesitate to say "disappointment" because he didn't look like the second coming of Ali. Thought he might have done a bit more at European level though, he looked strong enough to be another Sinan Samil Sam or similar.