Baltic Boxing Union News

Posted on | May 5, 2011 | No Comments

BBU title fights in Finland – new countries into the BBU area –

updated BBU Baltic rankings

During the first four months of year 2011 there have been 2 fights for Baltic Boxing Union International titles in
Finland. Shows have been promoted by Markus Lammi (Caramelito Promotions).

BBU Int. Heavyweight: In his first heavyweight BBU International title defense the reigning champion Janne
Katajisto (FIN) squared of with Latvian Aleksandrs Selezens in front of fully packed night club audience. Although
Katajisto had obvious advantage in technic and hand speed, the durable Latvian boxer was able to cause some
problems with his difficult fighting style. After six rounds of boxing Katajisto retained his BBU International belt
and improved to 8-0 with 3 KO. In other fights of the show Finnish welterweight Jarkko Jussila beat Russian
Dmitry Pankratov (TKO 4) and debutant Teemu Tuominen beat Latvian Maksims Ivancikovs KO 3 also in
welterweight division.

BBU Int. Welterweight: There was battle on 8.4.2011 for vacant BBU International Welterweight title in
Vaasa Finland. The challengers were local hero Jarkko Jussila (who is also reigning WAKO Pro European champion
and WKC International champion in kick boxing) and Lithuanian warrior Arvydas Trizno.

In two first rounds Trizno was taking the control of the ring while Jussila was a bit more slow to start his engine. In
round three Jussila started to put more pressure and was dominating the ring. At the end of fifth round Jussila
was hurting Trizno a couple of times badly and getting him near to stoppage, but wasn´t able to finalize the
moment while Lithuanian boxer showed his big heart with throwing some heavy counterpunches although being
very tired and hurt. The final stanza was again more equal and both boxers were able to hear the final bell. After
six rounds of action Jarkko Jussila was crowned as a new BBU International welterweight champion with a split
decision while judges scored were: 58-59 (in favour of Trizno), 59-57 and 58-56 in favour of Jussila. With the
victory Jussila improved to 3-0 with 1 KO. Although Trizno lost the fight, he made good show all time and will
surely offer many entertaining moments in various professional boxing shows around the Europe in future.
In two other fights Latvian Ivars Sedlins upset Finnish Roope Puumalainen in a middleweight bout by taking
unanimous decision victory after 6 rounds. Sedlins improved to 4-2-2, 2 KO while Puumalainen dropped to 3-1-1,
2 KO.

In a cruiserweight bout Caramelito Promotions´ Janne Forsman beat Latvian Valerijs Gubins by TKO 1 at pretty
end of the round after earlier he was himself floored once in the opening stanza. Forsman improved to 2-0, 1 KO
while Gubins dropped to 4-3, 3 KO.

BBU Heavyweight title: On 28th of May At Kankaanpää Finland there will be an 8 round scheduled fight for
vacant BBU heavyweight title between in BBU Baltic Rankings #5 ranked challenger and current BBU International
champion Janne Katajisto and opponent to be announced later. Show will be promoted by Markus Lammi
(Caramelito Promotions)

Belarus and Ukraine: Belarus and Ukraine are the new member countries in Baltic Boxing Union. Boxers
from these countries or licenced by these countries´ federation are allowed to fight for BBU titles and are also
currently in BBU Baltic Rankings. The BBU Board has appointed Mr. Anton Gorunov ( npopok@mail.ru ) as the
Ukraine representative in BBU Board.

Rankings: BBU Baltic Rankings has lately been updated for May-June 2011. Rankings can be checked at
http://balticboxingunion.com/champions.php .

Facebook: BBU has now also its own facebook.com -page. The page can be found with name “Baltic Boxing
Union.”

Situation of titles

BBU champions

Heavyweight: Upcoming fight 28.5.2011

Lightweight: Krzysztof Cieslak (POL) 16 (5 KO) – 2 – 0

BBU International champions

Heavyweight: Janne Katajisto (FIN) 8 (3 KO) – 0 – 0

Cruiserweight: Robert Gortat (POL) 10 (6 KO) – 0 – 0

Light Heavyweight: Andrejs Barabanovs (LAT) 8 (5 KO) – 1 – 0

Super Middleweight: Ruslans Pojonisevs (LAT) 12 (9 KO) – 15 – 1

Welterweight: Jarkko Jussila (FIN) 3 (1 KO) – 0 – 0

BBU Female champions
Super Bantamweight: Sofia Sidorova (RUS) 12 (10 KO) – 0 – 0

How to contact BBU:

Please remember that Baltic Boxing Union is always looking for new co-operation partners from our working area
at Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Poland, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia. As known our title
fights are cheap, reliable and easy to arrange and they will always give significant experience for boxers and also a
new boost for champion´s career.

If you are interested to get either BBU Championship title fight (8 / 10 rounds) or BBU International Championship
fight (6 / 8 rounds) to give more meaning for your show or if you are interested to know how your boxer can
challenge the reigning BBU champion please visit our web pages at (www.balticboxingunion.com) for more
information and contact BBU Board (bbu@balticboxingunion.com).