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With and ending more clinical
than exciting, Erzen Rrustemi
won the vacant World Boxing
Federation (WBF) World
Heavyweight title on Saturday
night, March 18, when he scored
a second round knockout of
Ricardo Humberto Ramirez on a
show staged by Sauerland
Promotions at Ceres Arena in
Aarhus, Denmark.
Argentina´s Ramirez started the
fight on the offensive and
landed some decent body-shots,
but Switzerland-based
Kosovo-Albanian Rrustemi soon
measured his opponent with his
jab and suddenly scored a
knock-down with a short right
hand over the top.
Ramirez beat the count of
referee Ernst Salzgeber, and
valiantly made it through the
opener. In round two he was
still willing to trade, but too
wild and easy for Rrustemi to
read. Another short right hand
dropped the South American
again, and he was penalized with
a point deduction when he spit
out his mouth-piece to buy more
time.
With loud support from plenty of
his countrymen at ringside,
Rrustemi, 12-0 (10), went for
the finish and got it when he
landed a big right hand to the
body that put Ramirez, now 14-3
(11), out of his misery. Time of
stoppage was 1:58 of the second
round, making Rrustemi the first
Albanian World Heavyweight
champion in history.
In other WBF championship
action, a few hours later at the
Complexe Jean Bouveri in
Montceau, France, local hero
Mickael Lacombe captured the
vacant Eurasia Welterweight
title by beating Georgian
co-challenger Anzor Gamgebeli,
flooring him twice in round one
and twice in round two to force
a retirement between the second
and third rounds.
30-year-old Lacombe, who
improved his record to 10-5 (5),
floored his adversary four times
to force the stoppage and win
his sixth straight outing and
the first professional
championship of his career. A
pro since 2010, Gamgebeli (25)
falls to 32-19-3 (16).
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