{"id":17115,"date":"2011-10-31T01:53:22","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T05:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=17115"},"modified":"2011-10-31T01:53:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T05:53:22","slug":"levan-ghvamichava-the-wolf-hunting-champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=17115","title":{"rendered":"Levan Ghvamichava: \u2018The Wolf\u2019 Hunting Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>One of the hottest prospects in boxing, light welterweight phenom Levan ‘The Wolf’ Ghvamichava, tore apart former European and Italian champion Giuseppe \u201cThe End\u201d Lauri (52-9, 31 KOs) en route to a second-round victory by technical knockout last Friday night in front of an excited, packed crowd at Wishaw, Scotland.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Wolf,\u201d who is already rated No. 66 by Box Rec after only six pro fights, dropped Lauri three times before the referee jumped between them in the second round to rescue the courageous Italian in the biggest upset loss of his 61-fight pro career. <\/p>\n

It took former world champion Ricky Hatton five rounds, and ex-European titlist Paul McCloskey 11, to stop the rugged Hungary native Lauri who lives in Italy.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has devastating punching power in both hands and has the best reflexes and speed I have ever seen,\u201d Lauri said after his fight against Levan.<\/p>\n

Initially floored by a straight right, left hook combination in the opening round, Lauri managed to beat the count, rising at nine, only to be dropped once more in round one. \u201cThe Wolf\u201d calmly stalked his prey before finishing his attack in the second round<\/p>\n

Lauri was visibly shaken and surprised by the power of Ghvamichava, the spectacular Georgian power puncher who now lives in Belfast, Ireland, where he\u2019s trained by the masterful father-and-son duo of Paul and Sean McCullagh.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been almost impossible to match Levan because the word is already out that he is a multi-talented fighter with devastating punching power,\u201d Ghvamichava\u2019s manager, Irishman Gary Hyde, noted. \u201cIt will even be harder now but we don\u2019t need to build-up this kid fighting journeymen. He is ready to fight anyone in the world at 140 pounds. Once he gets a little more professional experience, he will be challenging current European champion Denis Shafikov, from Russia, who needed eight rounds to stop Lauri.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am delighted with Levan\u2019s explosive performance against a good experienced opponent such as Lauri, especially considering \u2018The Wolf,\u2019 who is 26 years old, only made his pro debut this past January. Few, if any, fighters with six fights are rated higher than Levan.\u201d<\/p>\n

American boxing fans will soon have an opportunity to watch Ghvamichava in action. His U. S. sports visa has been approved and plans call for him to make his American debut before the end of this year.<\/p>\n

Hyde, president of Nowhere To Hyde, also manages WBA Interim Super Bantamweight Champion Guillermo \u201cThe Jackal\u201d Rigondeaux (8-0, 6 KOs), former European super bantamweight king and world title challenger Willie \u201cBig Bang\u201d Casey (12-1, 8 KOs), undefeated British welterweight prospect Mark Heffron and light middleweight \u201cWealthy\u201d Dee Walsh (1-0).<\/p>\n

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One of the hottest prospects in boxing, light welterweight phenom Levan ‘The Wolf’ Ghvamichava, tore apart former European and Italian champion Giuseppe \u201cThe End\u201d Lauri (52-9, 31 KOs) en route to a second-round victory by technical knockout last Friday night in front of an excited, packed crowd at Wishaw, Scotland. \u201cThe Wolf,\u201d who is already […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[105,5845],"class_list":["post-17115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-boxing","tag-levan-ghvamichava"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}