3 POLES IN BBU 2009 AWARDS

Ending a prolific and breakthrough year of 2009, the Baltic Boxing Union (BBU) board (via its pre-scheduled meeting) has finally announced its annual awards. Among the award winners, there are three Poles. First is Tomasz Babilonski, who won title of "PROMOTER OF THE YEAR". He promoted totally four BBU or BBU International title fights in 2009. Those fights were: Krzysztof Cieslak (POL) W8 Sergejs Savrinovics (LAT), Pawel Glazewski (POL) TKO5 Martins Kukuls (LAT), Krzysztof Glowacki (POL) W6 Lukasz Rusiewicz (POL) and Pawel Glazewski (POL) W6 Leo Tchoula (CAM/GER). Tomasz Babilonski with his Babilon Promotions is one of the most active Polish professional boxing promoters after having promoted nine (9) shows this year.

20-year old Łukasz Maciec, who was named "PROSPECT OF THE YEAR", fought seven (7) times this year and captured the BBU International light welterweight title in April, after the win over Latvian Konstantin Sakara. His biggest fight during the year of 2009 was a very close decision loss in a non-title fight against countryman Krzysztof Szot. In that match, Maciec was a real underdog but succeeded to make it a very close and entertaining match-up. Just one month after the fight with Szot, Lukasz Maciec was back in the ring to defend his BBU International belt successfully. After the successful title defense Maciec ended the year with the record of 9–1, 2 KOs. Maciec, who is scheduled to appear again as the BBU International champion in 2010, has shown real ability and some really significant improvements during the year of 2009 both with his boxing and its forth-forward outcome.

Paweł Głażewski (POL) got "SPECIAL NOMINATION" from BBU. He had almost unbelievable 8 fights this year fighting twice victoriously for the BBU International title in light heavyweight division. After having won the title at the end of May, Glazewski defended his title belt after two non-title bouts. The victory in the title defense against German-based Camerooner kayo artist Leo Tchoula has been Glazewski´s best win so far. The former 3-time Polish senior amateur champion has proved to have the real ability to get into European rankings possibly during the next year. Glazewski is now 9–0, 3 KOs record.