Boxing Result: Kentikian, Graf Retain World Titles, Chambers Wins Eliminator
Last night at the Color Line Arena in Hamburg, Germany, American heavyweight Eddie Chambers outboxed previously undefeated Ukrainian Alexander Dimitrenko to win a WBO title eliminator.
Also on the card were two world title fights featuring reigning world champs Susi Kentikian and Alesia Graf.
After losing to Alexander Povetkin during an initial trip to Germany last year in another title eliminator, Chambers got right back on the horse and the diligence paid off.
Dimitrenko towered over Chambers and looked to establish his dominance early but the Ukrainian slugger found the shifty American visitor difficult to hit.
Chambers further took away the confidence of his favored Hamburg based opponent further with stinging counters that had Dimitrenko hesitating before throwing.
In the second half of the bout Chambers began to open up and forced Dimitrenko to take an eighth count after a spearing body shot in the seventh.
Sensing the bout slipping away, the big Ukrainian came back over the next two frames but when he began to tire in the tenth, Chambers roared back to deck Dimitrenko with a sizzling combination.
From that point on, Dimitrenko simply tried to survive and succeeded, only to lose to Chambers by majority decision via scores of 117-109, 116-111 and 113-113.
Eddie Chambers wins the biggest fight of his career and a WBO eliminator to improve to 35-1 (18) while Alexander Dimitrenko loses for the first time, dropping to 29-1 (19).
WBA and WIBF flyweight champion Susi “Killer Queen” Kentikian, 25-0 (16), dominated Argentine import Carolina Marcela Guiterrez Gaite, 15-2 (11), over ten frames to sweep every round for a unanimous decision.
Another women’s boxing star, Alesia Graf, 24-1 (9), had a much tougher time in retaining her WIBF and GBU super flyweight belts as Stuttgart based “The Tigress” was floored in the sixth by America’s Terri Lynn Cruz, 17-6-2 (8). Graf regrouped to finish the bout but barely managed victory via split decision.