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After
winning his first tree pro fights, Bella Oleme
transitioned into the near perfect journeyman,
giving prospects and future champions a tough
test. He was only ever stopped inside the
distance once, and he also won fights here and
there.
To name a
few, former WBA World Champion Valery Brudov,
future WBC World Champion Tony Bellew, and
future WBA World Champion Youri Kalenga, all big
punchers, had to settle for points victories
when they faced Bella Oleme.
In May of
2013, he was rewarded with a shot at the vacant
Universal Boxing Organization™ (UBO)
International Cruiserweight title, in his
home-town Noisy-le-Grand, against Georgian
Giorgi Tevdorashvili (13-8-3, 8 KOs).
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It was a
scrappy, at times even messy, fight, but Bella
Oleme was the busier man, and deservedly won a
close unanimous decision. The journeyman had
become a champion, after being a valuable part
of the ring-education of so many future
champions on the way up.
Bella
Oleme retired after winning the UBO title, and
he can forever consider himself a former
champion. His 10-28-3 (1) record is by no means
flashy, but he was much better than those
numbers suggest. And the Universal Boxing
Organization is proud to call him one of our
champions!
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