By Per Ake Persson

Firat Arslan is sidelined with an injury but European cruiser champ Marco Huck will still defend the titleon May 9 in Bamberg and Sauerland Event will announce the challenger within a few days. More...

After many years as a nearly man, Panama's Guillermo Jones finally fulfilled his promise as he ripped the WBA Cruiserweight title from reigning champion Firat Arslan at the Color Line Arena in Hamburg, Germany.

Arslan began the bout applying the kind of pressure that had won him the title against Virgil Hill almost a year ago but the challenger used his long experience to minimize the impact of the champion's strategy.

Jones then began to masterfully outbox the German, hammering Arslan from angles and punishing the champion when Arslan did throw back return fire.

Arslan showed tremendous heart and toughness to keep going in the face of the heavy shelling and had success in spots but couldn't deal with the speed and accuracy of the much taller, long armed challenger, suffering cuts in the seventh.

By the tenth frame, Arslan had very little left while Jones seemed fresh and still in full command of his arsenal, forcing a stoppage at 2:33 of the frame More...

Two world title bouts and a world title eliminator are on tap tonight at Hamburg's Color Line Arena in one of the year's biggest German shows.

Top of the bill is WBA Cruiserweight Champion Firat Arslan's defense against slick challenger Guillermo Jones in what could very well turn out to be the most difficult fight of the champion's career.

37 year old southpaw Arslan will be giving away almost five inches in height to the six foot four inch challenger but the Suessen based pressure artist has sent the quartet of Darnell Wilson, Virgil Hill, Valery Brudov and Gregory Drozd all packing over the last two years and has proven to be a very motivated fighter in the clutch.

At 36, Jones, 35-3-2 (27), is not exactly young himself but the native Panamanian could very well be the best fighter over the last ten years not to have won a world title.

In a career that started in 1993 as a welterweight, Jones won regional Latin American belts until he earned a shot at reigning WBA Light Middleweight titlist Laurent Boudani in 1998. The bout was declared a draw and they did it again three months later with Boudani retaining by split decision.

Over the next three years, Jones fought at super middle and light heavy before going up to cruiserweight and challenging WBO Champion Johnny Nelson in 2002. Again a draw was declared and Jones took a year and a half off. More...

By Per Ake Persson

Hungarian Karoly Balzsay and Russian Denis Inkin square off for the WBO interim super middle title on September 27 at the Color Line Arena in Hamburg. It´s an interesting matchup between stablemates with the slick boxing of Balzsay against Inkin´s power.

It´s the fourth title fight to an already big show topped by the WBC eliminator at heavyweight between Vladimir Virchis and Juan Carlos Gomez and WBA Cruiser champ Firat Arslan´s defence against Guillermo Jones as well as Julia Sahin´s defence of the WIBF Junior Fly title. More...

A hot night of boxing is in store for Hamburg on September 27 at the Color Line Arena.

Apart from the title defense of cruiserweight champion Firat Arslan, 29-4-1 (18,) against mandatory challenger Guillermo Jones, 35-3-2 (27), from Panama, the co-feature is an explosive duel as Vladimir "The Hunter" Virchis, 24-1-0, (20), fights in an WBC eliminator for the heavyweight title against the former world champion Juan Carlo Gomez, 43-1-0 (35). More...

By Per Ake Persson

WBA Super Middle champ Mikkel Kessler´s defence against German challenger Danilo Haussler appears now to be on for October 25 somewhere in Germany.

Danish media have speculated in Kiel or Flensburg, where Kessler resided for a brief spell, as possible sites but according to Sauerland Event´s CEO, it won´t be in either of these towns close to the Danish border. Nothing is set yetm but Kessler´s former stable and gymmate Mads Larsen could be fighting on the undercard. More...

Stuttgart's Hanns Martin Schleyer Halle saw WBA Cruiserweight Champion Firat Arslan retain his title for the first time last night with a complete shut out of challenger Darnell Wilson.

Arslan, 29-3-1 (18), proved last November's title winning effort against the evergreen Virgil Hill was no fluke as he took a few rounds to sort out Wilson, 23-7-3 (20), and then comfortably outboxed the American the rest of the way, 117-111 on all three scorecards.

A powerful puncher, Wilson had made something of a name for himself over the last year by vigorously calling out the cruiserweight world champions in the media but failed to deliver once in the ring with skilled southpaw Arslan, who hasn't lost since January, 2004 over the course of 11 bouts. More...