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Currently the World Boxing
Federation (WBF) International
Heavyweight Champion, South
Africa-based Ukrainian Vladyslav
Sirenko will be aiming to take
things up a notch when he fights
for the vacant WBF
Intercontinental title on
October 21.
In one of the featured bouts of
a show at Sun Arena Time Square
in Pretoria, promoted by 5th
Element Promotions and billed as
“The Battle of the Warriors 2 -
Vegas In Africa”, the 9-0 (8)
Sirenko will face former
Argentinian and South American
Champion Rogelio Omar Rossi,
20-6-1 (13).
23-year-old Sirenko won the WBF
International title last June,
stopping Knife Didier (6-3) from
D.R. Congo in the opening round.
He has since stayed busy, in
August, with another first round
demolition of another Congolese,
Rocky Kaleng (10-2).
A frighteningly hard puncher,
the Kiev-born banger has
amazingly scored all his
stoppage victories in the first
round. Only teak-tough American
journeyman Terrell Jamal Woods
managed to go the distance with
Sirenko, when they fought in
November of 2017.
It remains to be seen what kind
of resistance the Argentinian
can give Sirenko, but Rossi is
certainly his most experienced
foe to date, and the 2 meter
tall southpaw, ironically
nicknamed “El Pequeno” (the
little one), who challenged for
the WBO world Cruiserweight
title in 2011, is not expected
to go down without a fight.
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