Busy WBO cruiserweight king Marco Huck steps thru the ropes for the fourth time in less than a years’ time as he faces the challenge of South American veteran Hugo Hernan Garay on Saturday. Huck, 32-1 (23), makes a rare appearance in Munich as the 26 year old is expected …
Read More »Boxing Result: Froch Defeats Johnson, Retains WBC Crown In Atlantic City
Carl Froch kept hold of his WBC super middleweight title and moved into the finals of the Super Six tournament by posting a victory over veteran Glen Johnson last night at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall. Johnson had predicted that his aggressive style would be too much for the champion to …
Read More »Boxing Result: Sergio Martinez Stops Paul Williams In Rematch Shocker
WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez won his hotly anticipated rematch with Paul Williams in dominant fashion last night at Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall. The first time these two met, both were on the canvas in the initial frame before continuing a 12 round slugfest that saw former WBO welter kingpin …
Read More »European Boxing News: Sturm, Bouadla, Decarie, Zaveck, Erdei
By Per Ake Persson WBA middleweight champ Felix Sturm has been to Berlin and visited the headquartes of Bild Zeitung. Sturm told Bild he´s at the moment about 15 kilos (around 33 lbs) overweight after some time off following the birth of his son but will begin a strict diet …
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: Braehmer, Bonsu, Boschiero, Wlodarczyk, Pozo
By Per Ake Persson Jurgen Braehmer is now “full” WBO light heavy champion as Zsolt Erdei has relinquished the title to go for the WBC cruiser crown against Giacobbe Fragomeni November 21 in Kiel.
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: Cleverly, Brancalion, Braehmer, Platov, Hide
By Per Ake Persson PI 2000 have won the rights to stage the fight for the vacant European light heavy title between Nathan Cleverly and Antonio Brancalion. OPI bid 63,100 Euros while Frank Warren came in second with a bid for 60, 000 Euros. Date and site is to be …
Read More »Boxing Update: Mack Demolishes Abron, Calls Out World Champs
Fresh off his demolition job of former NABO and WBO title challenger DeAndrey Abron, Yusef Mack now feels he is ready for anyone in the division. He has now chalked up 5 impressive wins which include 3 by stoppage and now is quickly becoming recognised as one of the top …
Read More »KZ Boxing: Shumenov vs. Mitchell US Broadcast Schedule
The North American television debut of light heavyweight sensation Beibut Shumenov starts tomorrow and continues this summer with airings of the taped May 9th show from Shumenov’s hometown of Chimkent, Kazakhstan. 2004 Kazakhstan Olympian Shumenov (8-0, 6 KOs), 2008 WBC Asian Boxing Council Organization’s Boxer of the Year, captured the …
Read More »European Boxing News: Erdei, Braehmer, Bonsu, Aydin, Branco, Bundu
By Per Ake Persson It´s rumored that WBO light heavy champ Zsolt Erdei´s next defence will be in Germany on September 5 and the opponent will none other than Universum stablemate Juergen Braehmer, the current European champ. Braehmer defends that title June 6 in Oberhausen against Italian Antonio Brancalion and …
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