5/9/09: at Stadium Khadjimukan, Chimkent, Kazakhstan
Beibut Shumenov vs. Alejandro Berrio for the following titles:
IBA World Light Heavyweight Title
WBO Asia Pacific Light Heavyweight Title
WBC ABCO Light Heavyweight Title
Mr. Shumenov has a world ranking of number 12. He is the current WBO Asia Pacific Light Heavyweight Champion, WBC Asian Boxing Council Light Heavyweight Champion and PABA Light Heavyweight Interim Champion.
He is ranked in the other boxing organizations respectively #8 by WBA, #9 by the WBO, and #16 by the WBC. His amateur honors include being a 2004 Kazakhstan Olympian, Gold medalist in 2004 Asian Championships, and a Silver medalist in the 1st Afro-Asian games.
Beibut Shumenov is not only a professional boxer but he is self-managed and self promoted. His company, KZ Event Productions Inc., was founded with his brother, Chingis Shumenov, in 2007 in Las Vegas, NV. The goal of KZ Event Productions, Inc is to help young Kazakhstan boxers to grow professionally and personally inside and outside the boxing ring.