Noel Echevarria (Puerto Rico / USA)

Title: UBO World Lightweight Champion.

Record: 20-7 (12).

- When you can reasonably be considered for five out of ten awards, as is the case with UBO World Lightweight Champion Noel Echevarria, you have had a pretty good year.

Echevarria (31) had five bouts in 2021, won them all and took his record to 20-7 (12).

In June he won the UBO International Lightweight title, stopping Mexican Rafael Reyes. Reyes has since won two of his next three bouts, both title fights, by first round knockout.

Holy Dorgbetor vs. Success Tetteh

Title: UBO Inter-Continental Featherweight.

Date / Place: October 16, Accra, Ghana.

- Two Ghanaian up-and-comers slugging it out for twelve rounds, both refusing to back down.

That was the case on October 16 in Accra, when Holy Dorgbetor (7-0) and Success Tetteh (10-2) squared off for the vacant UBO Inter-Continental Featherweight title.

It was back and forth from start to finish, but Dorgbetor was the better man and scored knock-downs in rounds eight and twelve to underline a hard-fought victory in a fight which appeared closer than the scorecards would suggest.

Karina Fernandez (Mexico)

Title: UBO Female International Super Bantamweight Champion.

Record: 17-6-1 (3).

- Karina “La Bella” Fernandez, from Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, is one tough cookie.

She may not be a power-puncher, but she is not afraid to get into a shoot-out, which she proved when winning the UBO International Super Bantamweight title on August 27 against compatriot Leaticia Uribe.

Fernandez and Uribe went toe-to-toe for ten rounds, and “La Bella” looked as if she was having fun doing it on her way to prevailing by decision.

Summer Lynn (USA)

Title: UBO Female World Welterweight Champion.

Record: 6-0 (3).

Can you be considered a prospect when you are already a world champion? We have decided that you can.

UBO Female World Welterweight Champion Summer Lynn is still only twenty years old and has only six professional fights (6-0), and we feel that her journey has only just begun.

She is young, talented and can, if she is not already, become one of the very best, and remain in that position for years to come.

Patrick Liukhoto KO2 George Lumoly

Title: UBO World Bantamweight.

Date / Place: October 5, Bekasi City, Indonesia.

- It was expected to be an evenly matched back-and-forth kind of fight, with the winner walking away with not only the UBO World Bantamweight title, but also local bragging rights.

But Patrick Liukhoto had no intentions of letting his fight with domestic rival George Lumoly go the distance, when they faced off on October 5 in Bekasi City, Indonesia.

Jimmy Williams (USA)

Title: UBO International Super Welterweight Champion.

Record: 18-6-2 (6).

- Jimmy “Quiet Storm” Williams may not have ended his 2021 in the ring as he wanted, with a victory over former World Champion Greg Vendetti, but he still made it the year where never the less proved to be a legitimate contender.

He came up short by split decision against Vendetti in September, but before that he had impressively rebounded from a five-bout win-less streak spanning 2019 and 2020.

Champion Boxing Promotion (Ukraine)

- Ukrainian promotional force Champion Boxing Promotion hosted four UBO title fights during 2021.

Televised shows in Kiev in February, May and December, the last of which was a double-header, all saw UBO champions crowned.

Champion Boxing Promotion is the 2021 UBO Promoter of the Year.

 

Istanbul, Turkey, September 3

Serdar Avci Promotion.

Caferaga Sport Hall.

- The Caferaga Sport Hall in Istanbul, Turkey, set the scene for a massive nationally televised UBO championship triple-header on September 3, promoted by Serdar Avci Promotion.

In the main event, with a loud and enthusiastic crowd cheering him on, Arda “Hunter” Avci, the promoters younger brother, won the vacant UBO World Welterweight title by impressively stopping Idd Pialari from Tanzania.

Also on the card, 18-year-old future star Dilara Yucel won the UBO Female European Super Welterweight title, and Hasan Kubilay Alcu captured the UBO European Light Heavyweight crown.

Avdyl Salihu (Macedonia)

Promoter, Manager, Matchmaker.

- This award is given to a person who goes the extra mile to achieve and succeed. And 2021 was, like the previous year, not an easy year to be successful in boxing.

But Avdyl Salihu from Macedonia carried on grinding away, as a promoter, a matchmaker and manager.

On the promotional front he staged two big shows in Kosovo, both headlined by UBO title fights, in cooperation with his partner Muharrem Gjocaj. These two shows are arguably the most significant boxing promotions in Kosovo history.

Josue Morales (USA)

Title: UBO Latino Super Flyweight Champion.

Record: 20-12-4 (5).

- These days, its hard to imagine any professional boxer fighting and winning nine bouts in one year. Even before the pandemic. But that's exactly what current UBO Latino Super Flyweight Champion Josue Morales did in 2021.

When the year began, his record stood at a less than stellar 11-12-4 (1), although all of his losses, many of them controversial and disputed, had come against good opposition.