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January 5,
2017 /
BY UBO PRESS OFFICER |
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It’s
time for the
Universal Boxing Organization™ Boxing Awards
for 2016. This year we have
eight categories.
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Below we
list the winners of the various categories, but if
you are one of the boxers, managers, promoters
etc. involved with the UBO in 2016
that do
not receive an award, please know that you are
still very much appreciated.
The recipients are as follows:
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2016
BOXER OF THE YEAR |
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Zsolt
Bogdan
Winning a World Heavyweight
Championship has always been
a special accomplishment,
and undefeated Hungarian
Zsolt Bogdan
joined the list of big men
to achieve this honor on
November 12 in Szekszard.
Romanian-born Bogdan (12-0)
captured the vacant UBO
World Heavyweight title with
a dominant performance
against fellow undefeated
Revaz Karelishvili, stopping
the Georgian in three
rounds.
Zsolt Bogdan is the 2016 UBO
Fighter of the Year! |
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Honorable Mentions:
Oezlem Sahin (for winning
the UBO Female World
Minimumweight title),
Martin Parlagi
(For winning
the UBO Inter-Continental
Featherweight
title),
Thomas Mashali (R.I.P)
(For winning
the UBO
World Super
Middleweight
title),
Cosmas Cheka
(For winning
the UBO
World Super
Featherweight
title). |
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2016
FIGHT OF THE YEAR |
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Mikheil
Avakyan vs. Jean Moraiti
On
September 24 in Maribor,
Slovenia, Mikheil
Avakyan from
Georgia and Jean
Moraiti from France
fought tooth and nail to
decide the vacant UBO
Inter-Continental Super
Lightweight championship.
Avakyan (36-26-4) was
considered the underdog, but
prevailed by close but
unanimous decision after ten
entertaining rounds. Scores
were 96-94, 97-93 and 97-93.
Moraiti (12-9-4) went on to
win the UBO
Inter-Continental
Lightweight crown three
months later.
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Honorable Mentions:
Ericles Torres Marin vs.
Sandor Micsko
(International
Middleweight title,
8.19,
Sturovo, Slovakia),
Cedrick
Peynaud vs.
Khakhaber
Avetisiani (International
Welterweight title,
11.5,
Dudelange, Luxembourg),
Thomas Mashali (R.I.P.) vs.
Saijad Mehrabi
(World
Super Middleweight title,
5.14, Dar Es Salaam,
Tanzania). |
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2016
NEW CHAMPION OF THE YEAR |
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Martin
Parlagi
28-year-old Martin
Parlagi (20-2-1)
from the Czech Republic has
time and again proved that
he is among the best
Featherweights in Europe. He
is the UBO New Champion of
the Year for 2016.
On July 2 in Trutnov City he
won the vacant UBO
Inter-Continental title by
emphatically defeating
former UBO Inter-Continental
Bantamweight ruler Francis
Miyeyushu by second round
stoppage.
Four months later he fought
to a draw with former
European champion Oleg
Yefimovych (28-2) in
Ukraine, in an attempt to
add the WBA Continental
title to his collection.
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Honorable Mentions:
Oezlem Sahin
(Female
World Minimumweight
Champion),
Steve Suppan
(Youth
World Super Lightweight
Champion),
Eric Nazaryan
(International
Light Heavyweight
Champion),
Jakub Synek
(Baltic
Cruiserweight
Champion). |
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2016 PROSPECT OF THE YEAR |
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Steve
Suppan
Dutchman Steve
Suppan is the 2016
UBO Prospect of the Year,
after winning the Youth
World Super Lightweight
title on April 2 in his
hometown Vinkeveen.
Suppan (22) showed that he
is a man for the future by
outclassing Giorgi
Kulumbegashvili over ten
rounds to register a clear
unanimous decision win:
100-90, 100-90 and 100-91.
In
the process he improved his
undefeated record to 6-0-1
(4).
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Honorable Mentions:
Mirage Khan (Asia-Pacific
Light Heavyweight Champion),
Idd Pialari (All-Africa
Welterweight Champion),
Nurshahidah Roslie (Female
Inter-Continental Super
Featherweight Champion). |
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2016
PROMOTER OF THE YEAR |
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Tibor Feja /
Fight Night Show Promotions
Hungarian Tibor Feja
of Fight Night Show
Promotions promoted four UBO
Championship fights last
year, making him the 2016
UBO Promoter of the year.
In February he staged a UBO
International title
double-header in Budapest,
Hungary, followed by another
International title fight in
August in Sturovo, Slovakia
and a World title fight in
November in Szekszard,
Hungary.
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Honorable Mentions:
Stanislav Skoda
(Synek vs. Vencl, Parlagi
vs. Miyeyushu),
Arvind Lalwani / Singapore
Fighting Championship
(Roslie
vs. Sithsaithong & (in
association with Ringstar
Managament) Khan vs.
Pangaribuan),
Ranee Schroeder / SSL Sport
& Eventpromotion
(Moraiti
vs. Berkatsashvili),
Francesco Leliaert
(Nazaryan vs. Horvath). |
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2016
EVENT OF THE YEAR |
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Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, May 14.
On
May 14 at the National
Indoor Stadium in Dar Es
Salaam, Tanzania, Mwazoa
Promotions presented a UBO
World Super Middleweight
title fight between the late
Thomas Mashali (R.I.P.) and
undefeated Iranian Saijab
Mehrabi, with Mashali
winning by split decision.
On the same show, Salehe
Mkalekwa won the UBO
All-Africa Welterweight
title by unanimous decision
over Kenyan James Onyango.
A third UBO title title
fight was scrapped from the
show, but never the less it
was the UBO Event of the
Year for 2016.
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Honorable Mentions:
Parlagi vs. Miyeyushu,
Synek vs. Vencl (July 2,
Trutnoc, Czech Republic),
Kovacs vs. Vass, Tolnai vs.
Lakatos
(February 6, Budapest,
Hungary),
Paziwapazi vs. Maugo,
Matumla vs. Cheka (March
27, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania). |
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2016 SPECIAL TRIBUTE OF THE YEAR |
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Scott
Patrick O´Farrell / Ringstar
Management
Scott Patrick O´Farrell
receives the 2016 UBO
Special Tribute Award in
recognition of his efforts
to bring high profile
professional boxing to
Singapore.
Mr. O´Farrell co-promoted
one UBO championship fight
in 2016, Mirage Khan vs.
Elly Pangaribuan, in
association with Singapore
Fighting Championship, but
it is his vision and efforts
for the future that has
landed him this award.
On February 17 he will stage
a history-making event in
Singapore, featuring four
UBO title fights and
fittingly billed as “The
Roar of Singapore”. Besides
that, he has many more
projects coming up and is
very focused on developing
our great sport in his part
of the world.
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Honorable Mention:
None. |
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2016
ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE YEAR |
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Ranee
Schroeder / SSL Sport &
Eventpromotion
Promoting professional
boxing is a hard task for any
person. Its probably always been
harder to do as a female
operating in a “mans world”, so
when you have only just turned
fifteen it is an amazing
accomplishment to handle the
nuts and bolts of a boxing show.
But that is what
Germany´s Ranee Schroeder did on
December 18 in Bielefeld, making
her most likely the youngest
licensed boxing promoter in the
history of the sport. We think
that deserves acknowledgment,
and the 2016 Accomplishment of
the Year Award.
The show was headlined by
two championship fights, one of
which were Jean Moraiti vs.
Nikoloz Berkatsashvili for the
UBO Inter-Continental
Lightweight title.
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Honorable Mention:
None. |
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