Paolo Roberto And Thomas Hansvoll New WBO Intercontinental Champions

By Teddy Stenmark

16.02 - Swedish welterweight Paolo Roberto added another title to his collection as he TKO´d American Wayne Martel in round 10 at the KisaHalli-Arena in Helsinki, Finland late Saturday night. The American was bleeding heavily from a cut when the referee made the wise decision to call a halt to the bout. Roberto boxed aggressively and used his southpaw jab in a superb fashion cutting his opponent effectively to pieces. The WBO #5 ranked Scandinavian is now the organization's intercontinental champion.

In the other main event Norwegian cruiserweight, Thomas Hansvoll was too experienced for his opponent, Hungarian challenger, Gabor Halasz and picked up the same title as Roberto. Both men sustained cuts but it was the Hungarian that started to bleed first and got the worst, and after being punched around for six rounds before the Referee stopped the one sided affair. A clear mismatch!

Finnish cruiserweight Allan Grönfors proved to strong for Hungarian Zoltan Beres and walked away with a Unanimous six round victory. In an exciting middleweight Contest for the domestic Finnish title, Amin Asikainen and Kai Kauramäki slugged it out for the full ten rounds. Asikainen had Kauramäki down from a beautiful right hand In the fifth but didn't manage to follow up and had to struggle The remaining rounds to the bitter end. He was a very clear Winner though! Former kick boxer, Terje Arildsen was lucky to receive a draw against Finnish tough-guy, Markus Huhtala. Arildsen was badly shaken in the second but weathered the Storm!

Polish light heavyweight prospect Thomas Adamek Made it 22-0 via a quick second round TKO over Andrei Kiarsten of Estonia. Danish junior welter Sören Engelbrecht took his eight straight victory, knocking out Spaniard, Mohammed El Idrissi in three rounds. Finnish lightweight, Juho Tolppola and his Norwegian bantamweight colleague Reidar Walstad both picked up four round victories over Spanish opponents. Walstad outscored Pedro Castanon while Tolppola out manoeuvred Oscar Blanco. Undefeated Danish Heavyweight, Thomas Sörensen picked up his ninth straight Pro-victory, out pointing American Rodney McSwain over six Rounds.