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From 19.00 CET there will be a live card on http://www.boxing.de/ with these fights:

Welterweight: Maurice Weber vs. Denis Alekseev
Heavyweight: Gbenga Oloukun vs. Mendauga Kulikauskas
Super Middleweight: Eduard Gutknecht vs. Gabriel Botos
Heavyweight: Dieter Roth vs. Marek Oravsky
Middleweight: Gennady Golovkin vs. Daniel Urbanski
Cruiserweight: Aleksander Alekseev vs. Adrian Rajkai

Eurosport will continue that broadcast from the card at 22.00 CET with these fights:

Heavyweight: Sebastian Köber vs Tomas Mrazek

International German Championship:
Heavyweight: Taras Bidenko vs Alex Mazikin

WBO Inter-Continental Championship
Jr. Welterweight: Juan Mosquera vs Willy Blain


Especially the fight between Bidenko and Mazikin looks good.

Tough fight for Mazikin, Bidenko is a good boxer. Was well on his way to beating Virchis and outboxing him comfortably before being stopped in the last round.

The Euro heavyweight prospects are starting to be moved along fairly quickly

Blain's a good prospect too, shame he's not a bit younger, with more of a punch, but he's got bags of talent.

JimJim wrote:Blain's a good prospect too, shame he's not a bit younger, with more of a punch, but he's got bags of talent.

I've not seen Blain , but heard some good reports, will be interesting to compare him to Khan.

Bidenko won a MD over the '00 and 04 olympian Mazikin in a fight that quickly will be forgotten.

Scores: Referee: Arno Pokrandt 97-93 | Judge: Frank Michael Maass 96-94 | Judge: Joachim Jacobsen 95-95

I scored it 97-95 for Mazikin.

Is Blain very overated fighting poor fighters, or is he shot?

Possibly a combination of the two, but I do think he's lost a step. Hard to imagine I know, but maybe he's the Erroll Christie of the 21st Century.

Blain won UD after going down in round 10.

Scores: Judge: Joachim Jacobsen 115-112 | Judge: Miklós Döry 117-111 | Judge: Noël Monnet 116-111

I had it 115-112 for Blain.

You had Blain winning? I had Mosquera up by 6.

Freiheit wrote:Blain won UD after going down in round 10.

Scores: Judge: Joachim Jacobsen 115-112 | Judge: Miklós Döry 117-111 | Judge: Noël Monnet 116-111

I had it 115-112 for Blain.

I disagree with your card, I mainly aggree with your round by rounds when I get to view the fights - but this time I disagree.

However, your never far from the judges mark.

I wasn't watching intently but had Mosquera by at least four

Kev

Kevin wrote:I wasn't watching intently but had Mosquera by at least four

Kev

Too busy emailing Steve, Kev?

I assume it was you and Real Deal who got the name check.

No way did Blain win that fight, assuming Dory scored round 10 10-8 for Mosquera that means he has Blain winning all but two rounds

I had Mosquera ahead by five rounds.

It was very dubious, in my opinion, how when Blain got decked in the 10th round, he "did an Ottke" and went on to win the decision - by that I mean that he boxed very cautiously, doing anything but going all out to try and claw back some points on the scorecards, and just making damn sure he heard the final bell. It reminded me of some of Ottke's fights, where the contest appeared very tight going into the last few rounds, only for the champion to box as if he knew he was just minutes away from a decision, deserved or not.

No way did Blain deserve to win that contest last night. Okay, he was in at the deep end somewhat, against a quality import who was in shape and had come to fight, but Blain's a former world amateur champion and if they're serious about pushing him in the pro game, he needed a better performance than that.

I've enjoyed Blain's performances over the past two years on Eurosport but in my book, after last night, he's gone from genuine prospect to one of those protected German based fighters who's only to stay on his feet to get the decision.

The last similar bad decision that springs to mind is Sprott vs Virchis, which I think took place in Austria, albeit on a German promotion.