WBO super middle champ Karoly Balzsay makes the second defense of his title when he faces off against Robert Stieglitz at the Syma Sport Centre in Budapest, Hungary. Hamburg based Hungarian Balzsay, 21-0 (15), won the WBO belt with a surprising unanimous decision over favored opponent Denis Inkin in January and KO’d aging but still…
WBA middleweight champion Felix Sturm once again had a subpar performance in a title defense and was lucky to walk out of Nuerburgring Race Track with his world title still intact after a clash with Khoren Gevor. Gevor worked his strength advantage over the taller Sturm as soon as the bout commenced as the former…
Tonight at Nuerburgring race track, in Nuerburg, Germany, WBA middleweight champ Felix Sturm puts his belt at risk for the 7th time when he meets former IBF title challenger Khoren Gevor. Sturm, 32-2-1 (14), is coming off a seventh round stoppage over Japan’s Koji Sato in April and this contest against Gevor fits the reoccurring…
Last night at the Color Line Arena in Hamburg, Germany, American heavyweight Eddie Chambers outboxed previously undefeated Ukrainian Alexander Dimitrenko to win a WBO title eliminator. Also on the card were two world title fights featuring reigning world champs Susi Kentikian and Alesia Graf. After losing to Alexander Povetkin during an initial trip to Germany…
The most accomplished women’s boxing champion in the world today was in action last night as Natascha Ragosina outpointed Laura Ramsey for the WBA and WBC super middleweight titles at the Soccio Center in Lagenhagen, Germany. The towering Kazakhstan born Mageburg resident Ragosina, 21-0 (12), saw off America’s much shorter Ramsey, 9-4 (4), via ten…
In what may be his last fight at middleweight, IBF champ Arthur Abraham clashed with tough challenger Mahir Oral last night in front of 7,000 fans at Max Schmeling Halle in Berlin, Germany. Oral, a former sparring partner of Abraham’s, showed that he was well acquainted with the style of the champion in the early…
© Jane Warburton / Saddo Boxing All eyes in the boxing world will be on Veltins Arena tonight in Gelsenkirchen, Germany as WBO/IBF/IBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko puts his belts and top standing in the division on the line against WBA champion in recess Ruslan Chagaev. Klitschko, 52-3 (46), comes into the bout after having…
Former world title challenger Juergen Braehmer retained his European light heavyweight title last night at the Koenig Pilsener Arena in Oberhausen, Germany. The 30 year old southpaw needed just one round to snuff out the ambition of European Union titlist Antonio Brancalion, 32-7-2 (8), who saw a seven bout win streak evaporate. Braehmer, 33-2 (27),…
At Salle Marcel Dufour in Louvoil, France, Salem Bouaita, 20-14 (7), regained his old European Union super bantam belt by knocking out Spain’s Jorge Perez, 7-2-1 (4), in the eighth round. Sala Rapid in Bucharest, Romania, saw undefeated light welter Jo Jo Dan, 25-0 (13), retain his NABA and WBC Continental Americas belts by outpointing…
The disarray caused by David Haye dropping out for his June 20 challenge of world heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko has been put to rest with the announcement that WBA “champion in recess” Ruslan Chagaev will step into the breach for the bout, scheduled for Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Chagaev himself was scratched from a…
Despite the headlining Ruslan Chagaev vs. Nicolay Valuev WBA heavyweight title rematch being called off, the show at Hartwell Arena in Helsinki, Finland went on as planned last night. Local man Juho Tolppola, 22-6-1 (9), failed in his bid to win the European Union light welter title from Italian evergreen Giuseppe Lauri, 48-6 (28), when…
The WBC Cruiserweight title remained with Giacobbe Fragomeni tonight after 12 rounds of combat at the Gran Teatro in Rome, Italy with ex-IBF champ Krzysztof Wlodarczyk. The champion started out strong, going after the taller Polish challenger and picking up rounds behind a good two-handed assault as Wlodarczyk gave ground and made Fragomeni expend a…