On April 29, 2012, Vyacheslav Senchenko (32-0, 21 KOs), the welterweight WBA champion, defends his title against former world champion Paulie Malignaggi (30-4, 6 KOs).
Vyacheslav Senchenko is coming in to the fight on a 32-fight win streak with a 65% KO rate; his last fight was a 6th round TKO victory over Marco Antonio Avendaño, 8 months and 3 days ago. Paulie Malignaggi is on a 3-fight win streak with a 17% KO rate, with his last fight being a unanimous decision win over Orlando Lora, 6 months and 14 days ago.
The odds of winning are at 97.8-2.2 in favor of Paulie Malignaggi. Vyacheslav Senchenko won't be able to do much against Malignaggi.
Paulie Malignaggi stopped the champion via TKO in the 9th round of the 12-round world-title fight, and is crowned the new WBA welterweight champion. Malignaggi improves his record to 31-4 (7 KOs), while Senchenko adds a loss to his record at 32-1.