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Local fan-favourite Thomas Faure
took home the vacant World
Boxing Federation (WBF)
International Light Heavyweight
title on Saturday night,
February 9, defeating game
Georgian Beka Mukhulishvili at
the Salle Pierre Jablonski in
Chateauroux, France.
Faure (29) worked well with his
jab through-out, but never
managed to take full control of
the fight, as Mukhulishvili (22)
was effective in countering with
combinations to body and head.
Many rounds were closely
contested and could have gone
either way.
After ten entertaining but
scrappy rounds, judges
Jean-Louis Legland and Smail
Alitouche scored the fight 98-93
and 97-93, while Jens Uwe Baum
had it 96-94, all for Faure who
improved his record to 16-4 (1).
Mukhulishvili drops to 6-4 (3).
On the same night, at the Salle
Bellegrave in Pessac, France,
Francis Tchoffo (31) had all he
could handle with another
Georgian in Jemal Shalamberidze
(24), as they fought to a draw
and left the WBF International
Middleweight title vacant.
Cameroon-born Tchoffo, 19-15-1
(6), came forward all night, but
often struggled to cut the ring
off well enough to catch the
elusive Shalamberidze, 8-5-1
(5), who boxed very well and had
his fair share of success
countering from a southpaw
stance.
Broadcast live by France 3
Aquitaine, the judges could not
split them in the end, as Ernst
Salzgeber scored the bout
115-114 for Tchoffo, Jerome
Lades saw it 115-113 for
Shalamberidze and Mohamed
Hireche had it all even at
114-114.
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