Youri Kayembre Kalenga

Youri Kayembre Kalenga
Data
Birth Name	Youri Musafu Kalenga
Fight name	El Toro
Weight class	Cruiser weight
nationality	Congolese French
birthday	March 27, 1988
place of birth	Kinshasa
style	Left-hand boom
Combat Statistics
Struggles	28
Victories	23
Knockout victories	16
Defeats	5
draw	0
No value	0
Profile in the BoxRec database

Youri Kalenga Kayembre (* 27. March 1988 in Kinshasa , Democratic Republic of Congo as Youri Kalenga Musafu ) is in France living Congolese boxer in the cruiserweight and former WBA -Interimsweltmeister.

Professional career

The robustly built and quite powerful standard boom made its successful debut as a professional at the end of February against Engin Karakaplan with a T.-K-.o.-victory in round 3.

In 2013 Kalenga defeated the previously unbeaten Ukrainian Iago Kiladze (match record 20-0-0) with a classic knockout in the 2nd round and suffered his first bankruptcy against the Latvian Arturs Kulikauskis in Latvia .

Against Poland's Mateusz Masternak (31-1-0), Kalenga competed in Poland the following year for the interim world championship of the WBA and beat him by a split judge's decision. Kalenga also defended this title that year against the previously undefeated Canadian Denton Daley (match record 12-0-0) with a technical knockout victory in round 12.

On April 10, 2015, Kalenga met Denis Lebedew (match record 26-2-0). Lebedev held the WBA world championship title, which was also at stake. Kalenga lost this fight clearly and unanimously on points, but still delivered a strong fight for the WBA champion.

In November of the same year Kalenga knocked out the Argentine Roberto Feliciano Bolonti in round 9 in a fight scheduled for 10 rounds

Web links

• Youri Kayembre Kalenga in the BoxRec database