The fight bill in Prague, Czech Republic this coming Friday, Dec. 3, is one not to be missed. If the EBU super welterweight championship between local hero and champion Lukas Konecny and the Armenian-born Swiss challenger Hamlet Petrosyan doesn’t make your flesh creep, then certainly exciting Kreshnik ‘The Eagle’ Qato’s fourth WBF World middleweight title defence against Tanzanian Karama Nyilawila will.
It is difficult to judge the 12 win (6 ko’s) and 7 losses record of the challenger, who won only 2 of his last 5, with 1 draw, but his losses have come in “away fights” in Russia (WBC Youth Championship) and South Africa. Nyilawila conquered the Tanzanian middleweight championship in June 2007. He lost that title in his 2nd defence, but regained it in April last year.
The Wembley-based Albanian lost no less than 6 of his first 11 fights. Proof he was thrown into the deep. Since then he has an unbeaten run of 19 straight wins. Even if his statistics are quite impressive (Southern Area super-middleweight title, External European Union super-middleweight, WBF World middleweight title with defences in the USA, Germany and Albania), it’s his style that attracts fans. His bumpy pro start in England is proof of that. They would have sacked a six-time loser, if he would not have showed “he had it”. He’ll show it in Prague next Friday.
