Leverkusen - All championship fighters and the two combatants of the TV main event successfully made weight today at VW-Zentrum Leverkusen for their contests on the Universum event on Saturday at Wilhelm-Dopatka-Halle of Leverkusen, Germany.
WBA bantamweight world champion Wladimir Sidorenko, 17-0 (6), from the Ukraine weighed 53,4 kg for his first title defense against Venezuelan Jose De Jesus Lopez, 21-5 (16), who weighed 200 Gramm less.
Live on ZDF television German super middleweight prospect Jürgen Brähmer, 25-0 (21), will do his second comeback fight after a 3-year interruption weighing 76,2 kg against Henry Porras, 30-5-1 (22), from Puerto Rico who weighed exactly the same.
Clashing for two international championship belts at jr. welterweight (WBA intercontinental and WBO Asian Pacific) Andreas Kotelnik (63,5 kg), 23-2 (11), will outweigh his stable mate Mohamad Abdulaev (63 kg), 15-2 (12), by 500 Grams.
Click to read more boxing articles by Boxing Press
Leverkusen – Bad luck for Michel Trabant. The German welterweight contender off the Universum boxing stable can’t fight the IBF eliminator scheduled for November 26 in Leverkusen, Germany. The 26-year-old >
Victories for Brähmer, Sidorenko and Kotelnik in Leverkusen
Leverkusen – Undefeated German super middleweight contender Jürgen Brähmer scored an impressive seventh round knockout over Puerto Rican Henry Porras on a Universum >
At the Prefectural Gym in Osaka, Japan earlier today, the WBC and WBA Bantamweight Champions kept their titles against stern opposition. WBC kingpin Hozumi Hasegawa turned back the aspirations of >
By Per Ake Persson
Last night at Stadhalle in Rostock, Germany, Jurgen Brahmer did everything he did wrong the first time around, right this time, and knocked out fellow German Mario >
Rostock – Undefeated Ukrainian bantamweight contender Wladimir Sidorenko beat former world champion Leo Gamez with a unanimous decision over 12 rounds in a WBA bantamweight eliminator on Tuesday in Rostock, >
Two former WBO middleweight world champions clash on March 5 in Leverkusen. New German boxing star Felix Sturm, 22-1 (10), faces his countryman and stable mate Bert Schenk, 36-1 (23), >
Tonight at the Color Line Arena in Hamburg, Germany, Felix Sturm and Wladimir Sidorenko put their WBA titles at risk against challengers Javier Castillejo and Poonsawat Kratingdaenggym, respectively. Sturm, 25-1 >
Tonight at the Burg-Waechter Castello in Dusseldorf, Germany, WBA Bantam ruler Wladimir Sidorenko puts his title on the line against Panamanian southpaw Anselmo Moreno on the top of a very >
The luck of Wladimir Sidorenko finally ran out last night at Burg-Waechter Castello in Dusseldorf as the WBA Bantamweight Champion was outpointed by Panama's Anselmo Moreno after twelve rounds.
Moreno, >
Miguel Cotto redeemed himself once again! He out-boxed and picked apart Mohamad Abdulaev in such an impressive showing, that Cotto’s next fight should be with either Ricky “The Hitman” >
