Joy and happiness in Neuötting, Germany, the hometown of WBO Light Heavyweight CHampion Zsolt Erdei's wife, Arabella, as Erdei became a father for the first time last Tuesday. He was over the moon when he announced the birth of his son Viktor: born at 6:29 pm, at 54 cm long and weighing 3750 grams. The birth went without any complications and Erdei was always at the side of his wife and new born son: “I’m so proud, my son is so cute! I want to cuddle him all the time because of joy and happiness!”

Universum Box-Promotion and the whole team congratulate the parents Arabella and Zsolt Erdei and wish them all the best.

Universum Box Promotion and Spotlight Boxing takes home many awards at the WBO Convention 2006 on the "Enchantment of the Seas."

Klaus Peter Kohl has been awarded European Promoter of the year.
Dietmar Poszwa is the WBO Intercontinental Promoter of the year.

Universum Box Promotion and Spotlight Boxing have been the one of winners at the annual WBO Convention in Florida by taking home a couple of awards: Head of Universum Box Promotion, Klaus Peter Kohl (62), is pleased with this year's award of the “European Promoter of the year” after winning the “Manager of the Year” in 2003.

Also Spotlight Boxing promoter Dietmar Poszwa (32) received an award for the “WBO Intercontinental Promoter of the Year” and repeated his win from last year.

Since their first event in 1984, Universum Box Promotion has developed a network which is named as one of the greatest and most successful in the European boxing business. Universum boss Klaus Peter Kohl is accompanied by Managing Director Stefan Braune as well as his son in-law, Dietmar Poszwa. In addition, there is matchmaker Hedi Taouab, who was named “Boxing Globetrotter of the year 2006”, and technical director Jean Marcel Nartz.

The awards of the “Unbeaten Champion 2006” were given to the Universum fighters Zsolt Erdei (32) at Light Heavyweight and Sergiy Dzinziruk (30) at Super Welterweight.
The fight of Jan Zaveck vs. Andrei Yeskin at the Spotlight Boxing event in Ptuj (Slovenia) on May 23 2006 was awarded with the “WBO Intercontinental Fight of the Year 2006”.

More international awards for Europe’s boxing institution Universum Box Promotion and Spotlight Boxing received the "Promoter of the Year 2006" award given by the WBC at their convention in Croatia.

With this award, the outstanding work of the two boxing stables were honoured for another time. After the received awards at the WBO Convention two weeks ago, this distinction of the WBC is another and special honour for successful work of Universum and other teams around the world.

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