BoxingScene.com, AR
Nov 29 2008
Khoren Gevor Stops Amin Asikainen in Seven Rounds
By Per Ake Persson
Helsinki, Finland: – German (of Armenian descent) Khoren Gevor stopped
Finn Amin Asikainen in the seventh to win the vacant EBU middleweight
title in the headliner of P 3 Boxing´s and Live Nation´s big show at
the Hartwall Arena that went out on PPV in Finland.
The fight was stopped at 2.45 of the round when trainer Pekka Maeki
retired his man who had just gotten up after a bad knockdown. British
referee Mark Green then called for a timeout to look for Asikainen´s
mouthtpiece Maeki had seen enough and did the right thing and stopped
it. Amin was hurt early in the round by a sweeping left swing from
Gevor and just didn´t recover. Later in the round he was caught by a
barrage of hooks and went down.
It was tough, hardfought, far from clean fight, with Gevor, a
southpaw, pushing the fight. Late in the first he was wrongly credited
with a knockdown as he wrestled Asikainen down. The Finn shook Khoren
in the second with a couple of good left hooks and the 10,000 or so at
the Hartwall Arena cheered. But in the third Gevor´s agressive style
again took over and Asikainen seemed to wait for too long. Khoren was
again shaken in the fourth and Amin seemed to have found the range to
keep his opponent off him. In the sixth Gevor slipped and went down
and now Asikainen was credited with a knockdown and a 10-8 round on
all cards. Going in the seventh Gevor was trailing on points but
turned it all around with one punch and then followed up.
Juho Haapoja won the vacant Finnish heavyweight title with a ninth
round stoppage of Sami Elovaara. Haapoja was well ahead after eight
when Elovaara, cut, bruised and swollen around both eyes was stopped.
Russian jr welter Dennis Shafikov won a technical decision over former
WBA lightweight champ Raul Balbi, who was ruled out by the doctor
after getting badly cut on the forehead after an accidental clash of
heads.
"The Nordic Nightmare", Robert Helenius, Sauerland Event´s
Swedish/Finnish heavyweight, moved to 5-0 with a six round unanimous
decision over Lithuanian Remigijus Ziausys.
Jr. welterweight Edis Tatli won a close decision over Spaniard Juan
Zapata after six hard fought rounds.
Ville Piispanen, also at jr. welterweight, stopped Mexican Christian
Chavez in the first of another six rounder.
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