German jr. light
Vitaly Tajbert have accepted a position as mandatory
challenger for EBU titleholder Sergey Gulyakevich. Tajbert
will still go through with the defence of the EU title against
Portuguese Joao Bento May 10 in Halle/Saale. On this bill
local fighter Norman Schuster face Georgian Koba Karkashadze
for the vacant WBO I/C welter title. Highlight of the
undercard is middleweight prospect Gennadyi Golovkin.
Finnish middleweight
Amin Asikainen is the new official challenger for EBU champ
Sebastian Sylvester. The two are 1-1 in but a third showdown
is unlikely as Sylvester eyes a fight against WBA ruler Felix
Sturm.
German cruiser
Alexander Frenkel fight Cory Phelps for the vacant IBF Youth
title in one of the headliners of Sauerland Event's show in
Bayreuth May 17. Heavies Rene Dettweiler and Cengiz Koc fight
in what effectively is an internal eliminator. The previously
announced EE-EU title fight between Enad Licina and Aleksander
Gourov is off though as Gourov has pulled out.
Spaniard Sergio
Blanco and Oleg Yefimovich clash for the vacant EBU
featherweight title July 5 in Donetsk, Ukraine. Blanco will
have a tune up May 23 in Hospitalet de Llobregat.
Frenchman Jerome
Parodi and Hungarian Zsolt Bedak are co-challengers for the
vacant EU super bantam crown.
Veteran heavy Henry
Akinwande, 42, have been signed up by Arena Box Promotion.
Henry, last seen with Sauerland Event, have spent a long time
waiting for a EU title fight to materialize but for one reason
or another the fight - regardless of co-challenger - fell
through. Akinwande is, writes Arena in a press release, the
tallest and oldest heavy in the stable but the question is how
much he has left.
EBU welter champ
Jackson Osei Bonsu is training very hard as always, says
trainer Renald De Vulder. Jackson defends the title May 3,
again at home in Antwerp, Belgium, against Ukrainian Viktor
Plotnikov and have become a big hero in his hometown. It's not
just his nice personality that get people to come: the champ
is a devastating puncher with either hand and can end any
fight at any given time. At the same time - as with many
punchers - Osei Bonsu is a little stiff and don't set up the
opponents enough to find space for the finisher.
Former German heavy
champ Andreas Sidon fights the national federation, BDB, in
German courts. The 45-year old Sidon was stripped of the title
and had his license revoked following a devastating ko loss
against Odlanier Solis last year. Sidon did well in a Hamburg
court and had his license back and was all set to fight this
past weekend in Ochtendburg but no opponent could be found.
ABU welter champ
Hassan Saku, based in Stockholm, Sweden, face Italian
Emmanuele Della Rosa April 24 in Rome. Saku have lost two
straight fights on the road recently.
Antonio Lauri have pulled out of the
planned all Italian EU title at welter against Daniele
Petrucci June 7 in Rome.
IBF I/C jr. middle champ Hamlet
Petrosyan defends the title against Cedric Vitu May 17 in
Creil in a fight that goes out live in Europe on cable network
EuroSport.
Swedish heavy Attila Levin will
continues his comeback mid-May, again in Kissimmee, FL.
