By Alexey Sukachev

Kemerovo, Russia - In the main event of the night WBC #15 rated Mikhail "Misha" Aloyan (3-0) was involved into a strange fight with previously undefeated Nicaraguan Hermogenes Elizabeth Castillo (12-1, 4 KOs) over ten rounds for a vacant WBA International title. Aloyan got the better of Castillo with a split decision and unrealistically differing scores: 100-90 and 98-92 - for Aloyan, 96-94 - for Castillo. Aloyan was fighting in front of his joyous crowd with the Russia's first ever world champion Yuri Arbachakov sitting in ringside.

The fight could surely be seen different based on which boxing style you prefer. Former amateur star Aloyan, 29, who kicked off his career with a ten-rounder, then a twelve-rounder, is a perfectly conditioned yet still an amateur fighter, who is not known for his power but more for technique and lateral movement. Castillo, a straightforward slugger, is more conventional.

Both combatants engaged into a chess match, which of course was won by the Russian. On the other hand, Castillo was diligently doing his work, throwing punches, pressuring Aloyan all fight long with no success. Aloyan's success was also limited but he won almost every single moment of the fight, which was dull and mostly uneventful.

With a performance like this Aloyan can soon be a contender, but it remains to be seen if he will ever be an attraction outside of his native land.

WBA #5 and WBC #11 ranked super middleweight Fedor Chudinov (16-2, 11 KOs) continued his restoration following back-to-back losses to Felix Sturm and George Groves the hard way by outlasting rugged Canadian import Ryan Ford (14-1, 9 KOs) with a unanimous decision after twelve hard fought rounds for a vacant WBA International super middleweight belt.

Ford, 35, was fighting for the first time out of the Far East or his hometown of Edmonton, Alberta. His biggest career win is a stoppage of 2004 Olympic gold and 2008 Olympic silver medalist Manus Boonjumnong of Thailand but he has mostly competed above 170 lbs.

In this fight, muscular Ford was specifically active in the first half of the fight. However, Chudinov, a former WBA super middleweight champion, was the one creating the storm by going forward at Ford. Chudinov's punches lacked the extra power to really hurt the Canadian but he was more intensive. On the other hand, Ford found a hole in Chudinov's defense for his hard right hand, which forced the Russian to take notice.

A grueling albeit slow fight got extra heat in round three, when Chudinov suffered a deep cut over his left eye, which troubled him for the rest of the fight. As the rounds went by Chudinov's punches didn't lose their steam, but Ford's did.

In the final third of the bout Chudinov was considerably more consistent than his foe, but the Canadian was never in danger of being stopped. Final scores were: a bit too wide 119-110, 117-111, and 116-112 - for the Russian.

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In a fiery stunner, a journeyman, one of those who are arrogantly called tomato cans, named Andrey Tomaschuk (2-6, 1 KOs) went down twice against the younger, bigger and stronger fighter in round one - but got up, dug extremely deep and found something to put Grigoriy Vorobiev (now 2-2, 1 KO) down in rounds three, five and six, forcing Vorobiev's corner to call it off at 2:27 of the sixth following the final knockdown.