David Price will have a warm-up fight before he fights in his home city again. The Liverpool heavyweight has a confirmed spot on the undercard of gym-mate Tony Bellew’s WBC cruiserweight world title defence against colourful Californian BJ Flores, live on Sky Sports, on October 15.
Juergen Braehmer (48-2, 35 KOs) will defend his WBA World Light Heavyweight title against Nathan Cleverly (29-3, 15 KOs) on October 1 at the Jahnsportforum in Neubrandenburg, Germany.
The always well informed Bild Zeitung writes that IBO cruiserweight king Marco Huck (39-3-1) will defend the title against dangerous Brit Ovill McKenzie (25-12-1) on September 24 at the Festhalle in Frankfurt / Main.
As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, there have been preliminary negotiations to make a light heavyweight showdown between WBA 'regular' light heavyweight champion Juergen Braehmer of Germany and former WBO champion Nathan Cleverly of the UK.
Nathan Cleverly is looking to get back on the world title trail as he drops back down to light-heavyweight on Saturday night. The Welshman is back down to 175lbs after losing to bitter rival Tony Bellew up at cruiserweight in November, and the former world champion is eyeing a clash with Juergen Braehmer in the autumn. The 28-year-old held the WBO world light-heavyweight crown for three years before losing to Sergey Kovalev and will be looking to rip the WBA belt from the German who defended it for the fourth time in March against Robin Krasniqi.
As previously reported, WBA 'regular' light heavyweight champion Juergen Braehmer (46-2, 34 KOs) will fight again on September 5th in Germany. The information was confirmed by his promoter Kalle Sauerland of Sauerland Event, who handle the boxer. It is very likely, that the same day heavyweight contender Kubrat Pulev (20-1, 11 KOs) will come back to the ring as well. Everything depends on his shape. It would be the first fight for Pulev since last year's knockout defeat at the hands of WBA/IBO/WBO/IBF heavyweight champion.
Frank Warren reacted furiously to news of Juergen Braehmer’s withdrawal after learning that the German would not travel to London to defend his WBO light-heavyweight title against Welshman Nathan Cleverly at the O2 Arena on Saturday night.
Nathan Cleverly has branded Juergen Braehmer "unprofessional" after the German pulled out of their WBO light-heavyweight title bout on Saturday.
Nathan Cleverly has blasted WBO light-heavyweight title holder Juergen Braehmer after the German withdrew from Saturday night's Sky PPV clash due to an eye injury suffered in training. Braehmer's injury occurred ten days ago, the German is said to have hoped that the wound would heal in time for the fight only for the champion to pull out just days before the contest was due to take place.
Nathan Cleverly has been left in limbo after WBO light-heavyweight champion Juergen Braehmer pulled out of Saturday's title defence against the Welshman in London.