 Avtandil Khurtsidze vs Attila Kovacs |
Avtandil Khurtsidze won his belt last July in Odessa after he defeated strong and experienced Argentinean Javier Alberto Mamani. Later in September Avtandil defended his title in a bout against Valentin Antonio Ochoa.
A hot middleweight slugger Khurtsidze got the moniker «Crack-burglar» among his boxers associates for his specific style – Avtandil usually immediately breaks into defensive walls of his rivals. He is a powerful, skilled and durable fighter. He likes to press his opponents in the ring constantly and never retreats. All said above make his fights so attractive for boxing fans who like aggressive brawl-like confrontations in the ring.
Attila Kovacs is a famous Hungarian fighter, in 2006-2007 he owned IBO light middleweight champion belt. Earlier in his career he also won IBF Inter-Continental light middleweight and WBA Inter-Continental light middleweight titles. Kovacs was EBA (European Boxing Association) light middleweight belt as well. 34-year old Hungarian never lost by KO and has only 2 losses in his record (one at the beginning of his career and another one – last October from Russian fighter Gennady Martirosyan). Kovacs is an aggressive boxer-puncher with good skills and enough power in his fists to win by KO.
In the undercard 25-year old Croatian heavyweight prospect Mario Preskar (14-0-2, 9 ÊÎs) will make his debut in the Ukrainian ring. Preskar helped Vitali Klitschko during his training for the fight against Samuel Peter and Ukrainian champ highly evaluated Mario’s boxing skills.
Also in the undercard of «Tornado 2» there will be fights of Ukrainian hot prospects Dmitrij Nikulin (16-0-0, 5 ÊÎs) and Valery Brazhnik (20-0-1, 13 ÊÎs) of «K2 East Promotions». Rematch of Alec Murtazaliev (7-2-1, 5 ÊÎs) against very experienced Ukrainian journeyman Vladimir Borovski (21-34-2, 9 ÊÎs) will be in the undercard of «Tornado 2» too.
Ustinov – Batchelder collide on the undercard of Klitschko – Gomez!
