Ukrainian boxing - Interviews

On May 9th IBO Inter-Continental cruiserweight champion Vitaliy Rusal (23-0, 16 KOs) will face EBU (European) cruiserweight champ Marco Huck (24-1, 19 KOs) for Huck's belt. The venue of the fight is city of Bamberg in Germany. It will be the third title defense for Huck who won his belt in September of 2008. We offer your attention an interview with unbeaten champion Vitaliy Rusal read more ...

We offer your attention a short interview with Diego Jesus «El Carnicero» Ponce who’ll try to take away Sergey Fedchenko’s IBF Inter-Continental light welterweight belt in Kharkiv on April 22nd - Did you manage to get ready for this fight – you did not have much time for that, eh? - I’m completely ready for the bout. I had quite enough time because I always keep myself in shape between fights. I've come here to win and I’ll go home to Argentina with champion belt read more ...

On April 10th in Donetsk Sportpalace «Druzhba» WBA welterweight champ Yuriy Nuzhnenko (28-0-1, 13 KOs) of Kyiv-based «K2 East Promotions» promotional company will defend his belt against another Ukrainian fighter Vyacheslav Senchenko (28-0-0, 20 KOs) of «Union Boxing Promotion» from Donetsk. On the eve of an unprecedented local superfight in which two Ukrainians will fight each other we offer you interview with Yuriy Nuzhnenko read more ...

In an exclusive interview with Fightnews.com, the WBA’s “other” welterweight champion Yuriy Nuzhnenko (28-0, 13 KOs) has given his prediction for the clash between Antonio Margarito (37-5, 27 KOs) and Sugar Shane Mosley (45-5, 38 KOs) on Saturday night in Los Angeles. “I think it’s about 70% against 30% that Sugar Shane Mosley will win,” estimates Nuzhnenko. read more ...

- Max, have you already started training for your next fight to be held on September 27th in Kyiv? Max Bursak: «Sure I have. In order to win I have to obtain feeling that I have done everything for my victory. That’s why now I train very intensively. Now we together with my trainer Sergiy Gordiyenko zero in on my stamina read more ...

- The audience enjoyed the show 100% – they received a lot of positive emotions and were quite satisfied. Only one detail will tell you a lot: just after the fight the audience was giving Wladimir Klitschko a big hand for about forty minutes. They simply could not just leave – they were full with too much emotion read more ...

Everyone who at least is somewhat interested in professional boxing should be familiar with name of Vadym Bukhkalov, a promoter, who together with Klychko brothers has deduced “K2 East Promotions” company to the world level. Now “K2 East Promotion” has far-reaching plans: 10 tournaments per year, 5 of which will be held in the capital of Ukraine -Kiev, and 5 -in regions. However only few know, that this famous promoter has another big passion (except for boxing) - Real Estate operations and projects. Development company “Euroholding Invest” owned by Vadym Bukhkalov has two large projects ready to be implemented. With the same ambitions as K2, Vadym Bukhkalov developing two high quality projects for the sum of more that 200 millions dollars. Moreover, one of the projects is directly connected to boxing. read more ...

We offer your attention an interview with promising middleweight Avtandil Khurtsidze (15-1-2, 11 KOs) from «K2 East Promotions» promotional company. In less than a week Avtandil will clash with Argentinean Javier Alberto Mamani (34-6-1, 19 KOs) for vacant WBA Inter-Continental middleweight belt. This fight will be the main event of a huge boxing tournament to be held in Odessa on July 5th read more ...

- Sergey, today you are considered to be on of the most promising Ukrainian boxers. But when you fully realized your desire to devote your life to the sport and has boxing lived up to your expectations? Sergey Fedchenko: «Well, strictly speaking I’ll be able to speculate without bias about expectations as well as to make any conclusions only after I have become champion of the world read more ...

Among approximately 70 world champions in 17 weight classes (considering WBA, WBC, WBO and IBF belts as major titles and not counting a great deal of lesser regalia) 31-year old Ukrainian stylist Yuri Nuzhnenko is one of the best kept secrets. But competing in deeply-talented welterweight division along with P4P stalwarts Floyd Maywether and Miguel Cotto and a big bunch of other boxing stars read more ...