Just hours after
Arena Box Promotion had announced an interesting heavyweight
fight between Konstantin Airich and British veteran Danny
Williams May 30 in Istanbul where Sinan Samil Sam and Matt
Skelton were all set to battle for the vacant EBU title in the
main event came the news from Sports Network, Skelton's
promoter, that Sam is injured and the show is postponed.
Universum has now
officially announced "die Nacht der Revanschen" or the Night
of Revenges for July 5 at the Gerry Weber Stadium in Halle/Westfalen with
the rematches between WBA heavy champ Ruslan Chagaev and
Nikolai Valuev and WBA middleweight champion Felix Sturm and
Randy Griffin on top. Griffin looked unlucky only to get a
draw the first time around.
The Universum
Champion's Night May 31 will go ahead but in Duesseldorf in a
show headlined by WIBF and WBC featherweight queen Ina Menzer
taking on Stacey Reile. WBA bantam champ Wladimir Sidorenko
co-headlines in his mandatory defence against Panamanian
Anselmo Moreno. Cruiser Aleksander Alekseev is in against
Louis Azille in a scheduled ten-rounder.
Dane Christian Bladt,
a former EBU welter champ, have stepped in at a late notice
and face local man Norman Schuster on Saturday in Halle /
Salle for the vacant WBO I/C 147 lb title. The show is
headlined by WBA and WIBF fly queen Susianna Kentikian.
Heavyweight Sebastian Koeber face Latvian Edgar Kalnars in the
third headliner of this Spotlight Boxing promotion.
Retired Swedish super
middleweight Fredrik Alvarez sued the Swedish healthcare
function for the mistreatment of a hand injury he suffered
during his fighting days. The story is that Fredrik slipped on
a stair back in 1999 after beating Ed Dalton in Denmark and
cut himself on a bottle. The injury was treated in Sweden but
the pain in the hand remained and not until over six months
later after winning over Louis Llovet was it discovered that a
huge piece of glass was left in the hand. The hand was,
according to Alvarez, permanently damaged and ruined his
career. Fredrik fought on until 2002 but suffered bad losses
at the hands of Andrei Shkalikov and Evans Ashira. Alvarez is
suing for well over a million American dollars in damages.
Fredrik has already received some compensation for the
permanent injures he has suffered but wants a lot more.
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Ruslan Chagaev´s
postponed defence of the WBA heavyweight title against Nikolai
Valuev will
go ahead July 5,
according to German news agency DPA. Site
to be determined. Meanwhile Universum strongly
dismissed a story in Bild Zeitung as to why the fight was
postponed. According to the tabloid, basing its story on
Chagaev´s former manager Taymas Niyazov, the champ suffers
from a detached retina that he had surgery on already back in
2001 - but now the injury is even worse. According to Niyazov
/ B Z Chagaev is almost blind in the left eye. Niyazov is said
to have written to the WBA, Universum, Sauerland Event, German
network ZDF after Chagaev beat Matt Skelton informing
all that according to several sources Chagaev's eye condition is
worse than ever. It's said that not even with surgery will
Chagaev's eyesight improve much. Meanwhile Chagaev states to B
Z that he sees good enough to beat Valuev a second time as
well. Universum boss Klaus Peter Kohl dismisses Niyazov and the
story and says that Chagaev passed the yearly medical checkup
as well as a further medical when the content of the letter
was known and that the WBA has given the green light for Ruslan
to fight on.
Mikkel Kessler and
Dimitri Sartison clash for the apparently by then vacant WBA
super middleweight title June 21 at the Brondby Hall on the
outskirts of Copenhagen. Sartison, WBA # 4 and 22-0, was born
in Kazachstan but grew up in Germany representing Gifhorn in
the amateurs. In 2003 he turned pro with Spotlight Boxing and
has developed steadily into a solid boxer / puncher. Last
year he beat stablemate Gusmyl Perdomo in an internal
eliminator for his career best win. Kessler, 39-1, comes back
from the super fight against Joe Calzaghe and the loss of the
WBA and WBC titles and must be regarded as a big favourite.
The Dane will spend three weeks at the famed Big Bear training
camp in California with Jimmy Montoya as his trainer. Kessler
leaves for California May 9.
German cruiser Marco
Huck take on Slovakian Frantisek Kasanic for the IBF I/C title
May 17 in Bayreuth. At the same time the internal Sauerland
eliminator between heavies René Dettweiler and Cengiz Koc is
postponed until July 19 as Dettweiler needs to adjust to new
trainer Otto Ramin. Dettweiler was trained by Ramin in the
amateurs but have been with Manfred Wolke since turning pro.
Italian jr. middle
and former IBF world champ at welter, Michele Piccirillo, last
seen challenging for the WBC crown, continues his career with
a fight against Czech Patrick Hruska on the undercard to Lynes-Branco
May 16 in Torino. Heavyweight Paolo Vidoz fights Brit Matthew
Ellis.
There's been some
misunderstandings around German jr. lightweight Vitali Tajbert.
He still holds the EU title, however he also accepted a
position as EBU mandatory challenger, which according to the
rules means he would be stripped of the EU belt. Tajbert then
decided to remain EU titlist and let go of the spot as
mandatory challenger.
Cuban Erlandis Lara
has, according to Bild Zeitung, fled the country by boat with
Arena Box Promotion financing it and is hiding in Mexico while
awaiting the paper work to be done to travel to Germany.
Meanwhile Guillermo Rigondeaux was supposed to have been on
the boat but jumped off at the last moment.
