yesterday IEPE #3319 came to visit us here at PLATOON.BERLIN to tell us about his latest adventure in the middle of Siberia where he organized again the Chessboxing Lightweight World Championship, like in february 2009.
on november 28th at the Ivan Yarygin Palace of Sport in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia a crowd of 2000 witnessed a fiercly fought battle in the light heavyweight division, between the 2 most talented chessboxers the world has ever seen:
the reigning world champion Nikolay "The Chairman" Sazhin and the young Leo "Granit" Kraft.
experts knew this would be the highest quality fight ever organised by the World Chess Boxing Organisation in cooperation with the Siberian Chess Boxing Organisation.
Nikolay "The Chairman" Sazhin, a 21 year old math student from Krasnoyarsk, has an amateur boxing record encompassing 95 bouts with 85 victories and his chess Elo rating is 2005.
Leo Kraft, only 17 years old, comes originally from Gomel in Belarus but has been adopted by the German Chess Boxing Organisation (GCBO). he has an impressive record of 50 amateur boxing bouts and 45 wins and his chess Elo Rating is 1997.
after 7 spectacular rounds of intense fight both champions were still standing.however in the 8th round with only one minute left on the chess timer, Sazhin knew he had to knockout his younger opponent. backed by the excited local crowd he attacked his younger opponent with all he had, but after 3 minutes Kraft was still standing.
the bell rang and Nikolay Sazhin laid down his own king and surrendered.
Leo Kraft is now the new World Champion in the light heavyweight division!
after the fight, Vladimir Makarov, head of the SCBO, pointed out that Sazhin had an knee injury just three days before the fight which definitely influenced his ability. Iepe Rubingh, president of the WCBO confirmed this, so both parties agreed on a rematch in 2010.
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