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Two new Universal Boxing Organization™ World Champions were crowned on Tuesday night (Dec. 14) in Budapest, Hungary. A third UBO title fight, for the European Heavyweight Championship, between Zoltan Petranyi and Laszlo Toth, was cancelled when Toth couldn’t fight due to some unspecified legal problems. In a fight that was more or less over before it really got started, Laszlo Hubert didn’t waste any time winning the UBO World Cruiserweight title against Romanian Istvan Varga. Hubert hurt Varga with one of his first power-punches, and floored the visitor with his follow-up body attack. Varga got back on his feet, but was quickly send to the canvass again by a hard body-shot, and referee Bela Florian stopped the bout after only 57 seconds of the first round. Hubert, who previously held the UBO European Cruiserweight title, improved his record to 29-7 (19), and has now won five of his last six fights. He could possibly defend the title against fellow countryman, and former WBF World Champion, Joszef Nagy (23-7, 16 KOs), who scored a victory on the undercard. In a clash of former two-time World title-challengers, local girl Renata Szebeledi made it third-time-lucky by capturing the UBO Female World Super Bantamweight title with a determined and impressive performance against Gabriella Insperger of Romania.
After a relatively even opening round, the Southpaw Szebeledi took control in the second and connected with hurtful shots to body and head. Midway through the round she send Insperger down with a left hand, but the Romanian beat the count of referee Janos Baranyi, and gamely came back strong. However, Szebeledi eventually caught her again for a second knock-down, and it seemed as if the end was near. Insperger made it through the second round just barely, but in the third she started to have some success of her own. It was short-lived however, as Szebeledi was thoroughly back on top in round four and quickly knocked her opponent down again for the stoppage. The end came at 36 seconds of the fourth. With the victory Szebeledi improved her deceiving record to 7-8 (5). Losing her first five pro bouts, she is 7-3 in her last ten, with two of the losses on points in World title fights abroad, and the third on points to current WBF World Champion Nadia Hokmi in France. At only twenty years of age, she has a bright future in the ring ahead of her.
The Show, which also included a bout for the Hungarian Light Middleweight title and a Hungarian title-eliminator, was promoted by Profibox-Promotion. UBO Supervisor was Zsuzsanna Toth Gyory. |
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