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Otherwise known for being the
base of some of the worlds
largest Champagne brands, boxing
will take centre stage in
Epernay, France on Saturday
April 15. Two World Boxing
Federation (WBF) title fights
are co-featured on a show at the
Hall des Sports Pierre Gaspard.
Local man Georges Beaupuis (27),
bringing a 13-4 (2) record and
riding a five-fight winning
streak, is entering his first
championship fight as he takes
on former Spanish national
champion Luis Crespo (36) for
the vacant International
Middleweight title.
Tough-as-nails Southpaw Crespo,
10-6-2 (4), is a former EU and
IBF regional title-challenger,
and has only come up short
against very good opponents,
such as Ivan Sanchez (16-2-1),
Dominik Britsch (26-1-1), and
Marcos Nader (17-0-2).
The man from Madrid also holds a
victory over then reigning WBO
European champion, and future EU
champion, Roberto Santos
(17-5-1) in a non-title fight,
and he has clearly operated, and
been successful, at a much
higher level than Beaupuis.
24-year-old Bryan Boussis, also
from Epernay, will be looking to
come of age when he faces Ruben
Movsesian from Georgia for the
vacant International
Welterweight title. With a 9-6-1
(0) record, he gets a big
opportunity to show that he is
better than his mediocre
statistics suggest.
Movsesian (26), from his
countrys capital Tbilisi, is
24-17-1 (19) and clearly the
harder puncher and more
experienced of the two. But,
besides a failed crack at the
Georgian Lightweight crown in
2012, this will also be his
first chance to win a
significant championship.
The two well-matched WBF title
fights, promoted by Jerome
Vilmain and Le Boxing Club
DŽEpernay, will be preceded by a
full undercard involving further
local talent, and a near
sell-out crowd is expected to
cheer the home-favourites on in
what could be their defining
fights.
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