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By Per Ake Persson
Sauerland Event and Danish network TV2 announced today their plans for professional boxing in Denmark. The Danish leg of Sauerland will feature comebacking super middle Rudy Markussen, lightweight Kim Poulsen, junior welter Kasper Bruun, middleweight Patrick Nielsen and also female welter Vinni Skovgaard. The first show is not yet announced but there will be six dates during 2010.
It will be Sweden vs Latvia February 20 in Lulea, in the north of Sweden, when Arctic Pro Box do their first show. Headlining is comebacking featherweight and local hero Karl Larsson-Jones with heavyweight Pasi Haapoja, also a local man, making his pro debut against Pavels Dolgovs. There are six fights on the show and all opponents are from Latvia. This is the first professional boxing event in Lulea since 1967.
It´s official: IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight champ Wladimir Klitschko faces Eddie Chambers, mandatory challenger for the WBO, on Fortuna Duesseldor´s 51,000 seat arena March 20 in Duesseldorf.
Arena Box Promotion will showcase both WBA feather champ Yuriorkis Gamboa and heavyweight Odlanier Solis March 27 in Hamburg in their debut for network Sat 1.
Peter Schulze, manager for middleweight Khoren Gevor, says they are going to court with Universum. Gevor has claimed free agent status but was blocked by the German Federation, the BDB, from fighting on Saturday in Cuxhaven.
Osaga Promotion return to Kenya for a show February 27 in Nairobi headlined by Conjestina Achieng vs Angel McKenzie in a junior middle fight for the GBA female title. Promoter Caleb Kuya was last seen trying to stage a show in Denmark.
