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In front of a sold-out crowd at
the EMKA Sportzentrum in
Velbert, Germany, “Big” Patrick
Korte won the vacant World
Boxing Federation (WBF) Eurasia
Heavyweight title on Saturday
night, November 24, defeating
Georgia's Ramazi Gogichashvili.
While they split the first two
rounds on the cards of two of
the judges, Korte, appeared in
control from early on before
dropping Gogichashvili with a
right to the body in round
three. The Georgian beat the
count of referee Thomas
Hackenberg, but the writing was
on the wall.
Soon after, Korte, a former
German national champion from
nearby Essen, scored a second
knock-down after a barrage of
punches, and this time
Gogichashvili stayed down for
the full count. Time of stoppage
was 1:33 of round three.
Topping a bill promoted by
former WBF International
Heavyweight ruler Werner
Kreiskott, the new WBF Eurasia
Heavyweight Champion took his
professional statistics to 14-1
(12). Gogichashvili, the younger
man by ten years at twenty-four,
drops to 31-27-2 (21).
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