Unbeaten heavyweight Victor Faust, who was supposed to box on the undercard of the Charr-Browne card that fell through in Dubai, still managed to fight on Saturday. Faust’s promoter Erol Ceylan shifted the location of Faust’s fight against comebacking Franklin “Yah Yah” Lawrence to a boxing card in Göppingen, Germany. Faust (11-0, 7 KOs) spoiled the ring return of Lawrence (21-3-2, 16 KOs) via eight round unanimous decision. He dropped Lawrence in round five en route to an 80-71, 80-71, 79-72 win. It was Lawrence’s first fight since losing to Andy Ruiz in 2016
In the main event, ageless former WBA cruiserweight champion Firat Arslan (53-9-3, 38 KOs) stopped journeyman Jackson Dos Santos (22-15, 20 KOs) in round three after scoring three knockdowns. At the moment, the 52-year-old Arslan is the oldest world-rated boxer, currently sitting at WBA #6 in the cruiserweight division.
Lawrence is 47 and hadn’t fought in 6 years. Good on him for going the distance! I think Arslan had said this would be his last year active as a fighter, but I have a hard time seeing him retire with 6 consecutive wins and a ranking in a division with 4 different champions. He may fight until he’s 55!
“Victor Faust, who was supposed to box on the undercard of the Charr-Browne card that fell through in Dubai, still managed to fight on Saturday”
Victor “Faust” Vykhryst must have ran to a plane in Dubai and flew to Germany and hopped off the plane, and ran to the new boxing arena and tossed on his boxing trunks and ran into the ring!
Viktor Bout, Victor Chaos, and Victor Faust.
Victor Faust did a great job with the win. He is not a South Park cartoon character. He is not a terrorist. But Mr. Faust is a good character who terrorizes his opponents.
Great job, Mr. Faust.
I’m sure there’s plenty of top-ten fighters who weren’t born when Arslan turned pro.
He turned pro in January of 1997. Devin Haney was born in November of 98. Shakur Stevenson, Bam Rodriguez, Sebastian Fundora, Ryan Garcia, David Morrell Jr., Boots Ennis, Vergil Ortiz, ….. none of them were around when Arslan started fighting professionally.
Look at Arlsan go! I wonder how long he will continue. I don’t think he accepts his age just yet.