In the main event of the evening in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in the WBA welterweight eliminator between unbeaten fighters "Captain" Gabriel Maestre (4-0-1, 3 KOs) and Taras Shelestyuk (19-0-1, 11 KOs) the judges counted. Maestre seemed to have a slight advantage during the fight, but in the end, the judges counted Shelestyuk 97-93, Maestre 96-64 and 95-95. For the two-time Olympian with the Venezuelan national team, this was the first fight since his controversial fight with Mikal Fox last summer.
Unbeaten Ukrainian left-hander Taras Shelestyuk, who lives and trains in Los Angeles, and is also an undefeated welterweight Gabriel Maestre weighed exactly 147 pounds on the eve of their 12-round bout in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The fight was sanctioned by the WBA as a semi-final eliminator.
This coming Friday, March 11, in Montreal, Canada, the unbeaten Ukrainian welterweight Taras Shelestyuk (19-0, 11 KOs) in the WBA eliminator will meet the representative of Venezuela Gabriel Maestre (4-0, 3 KOs).
The WBA announced that Gabriel Maestre (4-0, 3 KOs) has been stripped of the interim world welterweight title he won on Saturday. The Venezuelan defeated Mykal Fox (22-3, 5 KOs) by a very controversial decision in Minneapolis.
Gabriel Maestre (4-0, 3 KOs) received a controversial unanimous decision nod over Mykal Fox (22-3, 5 KOs) in the main event of the Premier Boxing Champions night in Minneapolis. At stake there was the interim WBA welterweight title.