European Championships – the nice moments… 16:00 05/28/2014 …and the not-so-nice surprises. Igor Mazurenko on EC in Baku. Not what you were looking for? Search for other text. The EC in Baku have shown us that these are the days of famous sportsmen, like Rustam Babayev, Arsen Liliev and many others. There are also many other new fighters entering the podium, jostling for position, in nearly every weight category. For example: Evgenyi Prudnik fought Babayev before, couldn’t beat him, but this year he’s won gold. The Ukrainian took 4 th in left hand, and 1 st place in right. Farid Umsanov could fight the Bulgarian – Tsvetkov or the Slovakian Mihaliczka in heavy weight – he had no other opponents. In his opinion, Semerenko and Pushkar were missing in the amateur championships. But this time around Farid came 3 rd , which was a surprise. We could observe a whole spectrum of different fighters in the lighter categories. Bulgaria was very notable. Sasho Andreev put on some mass and honed