Tonight at 02 World Arena in Hamburg, WBA super middle king Dimitri Sartison puts his WBA super middle title on the line for the first time, facing experienced challenger Khoren Gevor. The Kazakhstan born titlist, 26-1 (17), won the vacant belt last November with a sixth round stoppage of little …
Read More »European Boxing News: Stieglitz, Menzer, Hide, Kessler, Sartison, Holyfield
By Per Ake Persson WBO super middle champ Robert Stieglitz defends the title January 9 in Magdeburg on a SES promotion. In the chief support Ina Menzer will defend the WBC, WIBF and WBO featherweight titles against Ramona Kuehne, who holds the WIBF crown at junior light. For Stieglitz it …
Read More »Boxing In Germany: Erdei, Tajbert Win WBC Belts, Sartison Gets WBA In Kiel
There was a massive show at Sparkassen Arena in Kiel last night with three world title belts at risk. The big winner was Zsolt Erdei who moved up a weight class to unseat reigning WBC cruiser champion Giacobbe Fragomeni by majority decision. Hungarian Erdei had held the WBO light heavy …
Read More »European Boxing News: Valuev, Haye, Fragomeni, Erdei, Solis
By Per Ake Persson So was ex-heavyweight champ Nikolai Valuev exposed by David Haye and before that by Evander Holyfield and Ruslan Chagaev as “just” a giant, incapable of boxing? Some seem to think so, not me though. I think it´s a case of a fighter who´s getting old, simple …
Read More »European Boxing News: Magee, Larsen, Sartison, Mendy, Parodi
By Per Ake Persson It will be British champ Brian Magee that replaces Dimitri Sartison as co-challenger for Mads Larsen for the vacant European title. The EBU have set November 24 as deadline for purse bids or agreements. One can imagine that Palm Promotion will work hard to get Magee …
Read More »European Boxing News: Larsen, Campillo, Macklin, Chebah, Bladt
By Per Ake Persson Mads Larsen against Dimitri Sartison for the vacant European supermiddle title goes ahead January 16 in Aarhus, Denmark, on a show staged by Palm Promotion, headed by former European welter champ Hans Henrik Palm. WBA light heavy champ Gabriel Campillo´s defence of the title against Beibut …
Read More »European Boxing News: Klitschko, Johnson, Quato, Mormeck
By Per Ake Persson It´s official: WBC heavy champ Vitali Klitschko defends the title December 12 at the Post Finance-Arena in Bern, Switzerland, against Kevin Johnson. All due respect to Mr. Johnson, but until Alexander Povetkin and maybe Odlanier Solis get their chance both Klitschko brothers will remain champions.
Read More »European Boxing News: Murat, Lauri, Wilaschek, Sartison, Masoe, Sturm
By Per Ake Persson European Super Middle Champ Karo Murat reportedly defends the title against Italian Lorenzo Di Giacomo, a former European Union champ and European two-time challenger at middleweight, on May 30 at a site to be announced in Germany.
Read More »Boxing In Germany: WBO Champ Inkin Dethroned By Balzsay In Madgeburg
In a stunning upset, WBO Super Middle Champion Denis Inkin was outpointed on Saturday by undefeated challenger Karoly Balzsay at the Bordelandhalle in Madgeburg. Inkin had come into the bout fresh off a twelve round handling of Colombian knockout artist Fulgencio Zuniga last year for Joe Calzaghe’s old WBO title …
Read More »Boxing In Germany: Barashian Comes In Overweight For Erdei WBO Title Clash
WBO Light Heavyweight title challenger Yuti Barashian, 25-4 (17), ruled out any chance he may have to win Zsolt Erdei’s title in their clash tonight at the Bordelandhalle in Magdeburg, Germany as the 29 year old southpaw was unable to make the divisional weight limit of 175 pounds yesterday. The …
Read More »International Boxing News
Ruslan Chagaev´s postponed defense of the WBA Heavyweight Title against Nikolai Valuev will according to German news agency DPA take place on July 5. The site has not determined. Meanwhile Universum strongly dismiss a story in Bild Zeitung as to why the fight was postponed. According to the tabloid, basing …
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