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A former WBF All Africa
Welterweight Champion and the
reigning WBF International Super
Welterweight titlist going in,
Egyptian star Andreas Valavanis
won the vacant World Boxing
Federation (WBF)
Intercontinental Welterweight
crown on Tuesday night, July 18,
at Fitbox Corner in Cairo.
After suffering a surprise
knock-down in the second round,
25-year-old “King Cheetah”
Valavanis recovered well and
rallied back to stop experienced
former Tanzanian Champion Omari
Ramadan (29) in the second round
with a vicious body-shot.
A pro only since November of
2015, heavy-handed Valavanis is
certainly being fast-tracked to
the top, and improved his
impressive ledger to 9-0 (9).
Ramadan, a veteran of nine
championship fights, is now
14-10-2 (10) since turning over
in 2006.
In the evenings co-feature,
Ayman “Stone” Ashour seemed on
his way to suffering his first
loss when he landed a massive
right hand to stop fellow
unbeaten Egyptian Waleed “Magic”
Twafik in round six to win the
vacant WBF All Africa
Middleweight title.
Looking exhausted and getting
out-boxed, Egyptian Middleweight
Champion Ashour (32) was behind
on all three scorecards (46-50,
47-49 & 47-48) when he found the
equalizer to improve his
professional record to 7-0 (4).
Twafik (34), Egyptian national
Champion at Super Welterweight,
falls to 4-1 (2).
Billed as “Thunder Night”, the
show was promoted by Louaa
Boxing Promotions and LB Sports
Promotions in association with
Fitbox.
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