Taras Bidenko beats Julius Francis

22.09.04 - Ukrainian heavyweight prospect Taras Bidenko scored a unanimous decision over ten rounds against seasoned former British champion Julius Francis. The score totals of this entertaining bout were 99:91 twice and 100:90. Bidenko improved his record to 12-1 with 7 knockouts, Francis dropped to 23-19-1 with 12 knockouts.

At super middleweight WBO interims champion Mario Veit beat African born Dane Lolenga Mock over eight grueling rounds. Veit is now 44-1 with 22 knockouts. Mock dropped to 22-9-1 with 6 knockouts.

The first four contests were broadcast live on www.boxing.de. The tape of this broadcast is available in the LIVE section.

All Results:

Bantamweight, 6 Rds
Alesia Graf TKO2 Pavla Stankeova

Welterweight, 4 Rds
Marco Cattikas KO2 Pavol Durdik

Heavyweight, 4 Rds
Valery Chechenev KO1 Thomas Borbely

Super Featherweight, 4 Rds
Ina Menzer W4 Viktoria Oleynik

Heavyweight, 4 Rds
Denis Boiystov KO1 Imrich Borka

Super Welterweight, 4 Rds
Sebastian Zbik W4 Peter Durdik

Super Middleweight, 8 Rds
Mario Veit W8 Lolenga Mock

Heavyweight, 6 Rds
Egon Roth TKO3 Sandor Forgacs

Heavyweight, 8 Rds
Taras Bidenko W10 Julius Francis