George Kambosos, Jr. vs. Richard Alejandro Peña & Christina Linardatou Durán vs. Deanha Hobbs RBR

I think Arandelovic was brought in with the idea to (carefully) gauge exactly that, as he is hard to stop and has all six of his wins by KO... but he is barely laying a hand on Nika while backpedaling for dear life, and- OH MY GOODNESS, WOW. VICIOUS KO2!!!!

 

Ugh, man, is Danijel okay? Seemed to hit the back of his neck on the bottom rope on the way down, already unconscious..

 

The actual KO shot was a left hook on the liver, had Arandelovic wincing and retreating already in the beginnings of a kneeling motion, and then Nika looped in a full-power corkscrew right into his temple for good measure. Poor dude got absolutely obliterated.

 

Err, next up is "XOPNTIENKO" (however that would translate from Greek into Latin alphabet), some Ukrainian fighter, definitely not on the original card as listed on BoxRec..

 

Oh wait, never mind, he walked first but the A-side coming out now is Stelios Papadapolous, so this is part of the scheduled lineup. They must have replaced Abdumonem Said with the Ukrainian on short notice.

 

Stylianos Dimitrios Papadopoulos vs. "XOPNTIENKO", 8 rounds @ welterweight

 

Yeah, this was also demoted from 10 rounds to 8, so presumably the "vacant WBO Inter-Continental welterweight title" is no longer at stake.

 

First name, from my very shoddy ability to decipher Cyrillic, appeared to be something like "Bolodomyr", perhaps? I just looked through all the listed active Ukrainian male pro boxers in every weight class from lightweight through middle and can't find one that seems to be a match.

Could be Ukrainian-born yet based in another country, like Russia or Canada or something.

 

10-9 Papadopoulos