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  Controversial and Ambitious

  A couple of articles came out recently about Beibut Shumenov, Kazakhstan’s boxing champion. In an interview with Fight Hype, Gabriel Campillo says he was robbed of victory over Shumenov in the title fight in Las Vegas and wants a rematch. Both the Spanish boxer and the interviewer seem to agree that Campillo clearly won the […]

  8/31/10 • (Comments Off on Controversial and Ambitious)

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  Shumenov is the Champion my friends

  As the WBA denies Campillo’s request for a rematch, Beibut Shumenov has become the light heavyweight champion of the world! But what a long strange controversial trip it was.

  4/02/10 • (4)

• Another Great Boxer

  Just pointing you to a great article, Maskayev Eyes Vitali Klitschko Rematch. It’s a really great biography of a champion boxer from Zhambul, making a comeback at the age of 46! He’s had a fascinating life and the article is a good read with videos of his matches interspersed, including this one of his match […]

  11/26/09 • (Comments Off on Another Great Boxer)

• Boxing Scandal To Be Decided in Rematch

  Beibut Shumenov, an undefeated boxer from Kazakhstan, is widely viewed as a future world champion. At 26 years old, he was undefeated–8 fights and 6 wins by knockout–although he made the decision to turn professional only in 2007. He is also one of the few CIS boxers who was smart enough to found his own […]

  10/10/09 • (1)

• And Then There Was One

  While Kazakhstan has taken some more medals in the 2008 Beijing Olympics since I last blogged, the boxing team upon which many hopes were pinned isn’t performing according to expectations. Of course neither is the US boxing team which went home with one lousy bronze so maybe it’s just a bad moon over China. The […]

  8/23/08 • (Comments Off on And Then There Was One)

• Olympics Update

  Back to the 2008 Olympic Games and in the couple of days I skipped, Kazakhstan picked up 2 silver and 1 bronze medals. In total Kazakhstan now has: 2 silver in weightlifting and 1 bronze; 2 bronze in wrestling and 1 silver in judo. Just last night, Mariya Grabovetskaya took the bronze in weightlifting, 75+ […]

  8/14/08 • (Comments Off on Olympics Update)

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  Kazakhstan Wins Second Medal

  I must have misunderstood something when I wrote that Kazakh wrestler Tenizbayev still had a match to go to win the bronze Nurbykhyt Tenizbayev won Kazakhstan’s second medal in the Beijing Olympics, taking a bronze in Greco-Roman Wrestling, 60 kg category, sharing it with Ruslan Tiumenbaev of Kyrgyzstan. I miswrote that the two would face […]

  8/12/08 • (Comments Off on Kazakhstan Wins Second Medal)

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  She Did It!

  Update on my last post on Olympic results. Irina Nekrassova is the first Kazakhstan athelete to win a medal at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games! Losing to North Korean Pak Hyon-suk by only one kilogram total! She set the bar high in the snatch, lifting 110kg, 4 kg more than Pak. Nekrassova then went on […]

  8/12/08 • (1)

• Olympics Update: Boxing, Wrestling and Weightlifting

  Kazakhstan’s boxers continue to lead the hope for a medal. While in other events, Kazakhstan’s athletes have already finished empty-handed, the boxers are still in the ring and pounding away. As I reported before, Bakhityar Aratayev is still in the final 16 and will have his next match on Aug 16 against Matvey Korobov, the […]

  8/12/08 • (2)

• Results for 12 August

  I missed one boxer in my last update. Mirat Sarsembayev, Kazakhstan’s entry in the flyweight category (51kg) made it to the final 16 beating Polish Rafal Kaczor. He next faces Russian Georgy Balakshin. And while Evgeni Ryzhkov took 4th place in preliminary heats of the 200 meter breaststroke, that wasn’t enough to move on. But […]

  8/12/08 • (Comments Off on Results for 12 August)

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