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Former cruiserweight champion Marco Huck steps up in weight, as previously reported, once again to the heavyweight division on June 16 in Munich and today Petko´s Box Promotion announced that Huck will face Yakub Saglam, 40-4-0-1 (37 KOs).
Copenhagen, Denmark - Super middleweight veteran Lolenga Mock, 42-14-1, did it again and outscored Russian former WBA champ Dmitri Chudinov, 20-2-3, over ten. It was a close, difficult to score fight with lots of tactical moves between two fighters not known for their speed. Mock made a slow start and Chudinov was ahead early on but then Mock´s jab began to land and Chudinov appeared to slow down.
Mogens Palle, who was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2008, celebrates his 60 year anniversary as a boxing promoter with an action-packed program in Copenhagen, Denmark on Friday January the 5th. Together with popular Danish former heavyweight fighter Brian Nielsen the 83-year old promoter now runs the Danish Fight Night boxing shows, which they started two years ago with mainly all new talents billed as “Tomorrow’s Champions”.
Asloum Promotion returns on December 14 at the Palais des Sports Marcel Cerdan in Levallois Perret. Topping the bill is WBC Silver champ Yvan Mendy (39-4-1) defending the title against Mexican Jesus Arevalo (25-2-1) . Lightheavy prospect Mathieu Bauderlique (13-1) and middleweight ditto Christian M´Bili (6-0) are featured on the undercard.
Lightweights Howik Bebraham (11-0) and Fedor Papazov (20-2) will square off in an official IBO eliminator early next year. The winner will then face IBO champ Emmanuel Tagoe. Bebraham is promoted by Petko´s Box Promotion in Munich (Germany).
18-year old super lightweight Oliver Meng impressed in his debut with a points win over Spaniard Iriome Penate, 3-1-2, Penate was down in the first, second and at the end of the fourth and final round but still made a fight of it as he kept coming and had his best round in the fourth when stunned by a short right. Meng jumped on his opponent and floored him with a barrage of punches as the bell rang. It was scored 40-33 on all cards.
According to Danish paper Ekstrabladet, in a few days it will be made public that former WBA and WBC super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler´s comeback will go ahead on November 11 at the Messecenter in Herning. The opponent could be Colombian contender Roamer Alexis Angulo (22-0).
Aarhus, Denmark - 45-year old super middleweight veteran Lolenga Mock is now 9-0 in his comeback and outscored 19-years younger Englishman Luke Blackledge, 23-4-2, over ten hardfought, fastpaced rounds close intense fighting between two fighters not known for neither speed or technique.
Jonkoping, Sweden - Professional boxing returned this afternoon to this city, known as the capital of the Swedish biblebelt, for the first time in 50 years. Back then middleweight Bosse Pettersson outscored Fabio Bettini over ten. Tonight at a packed Harry´s Nightclub, super middleweight and local man Sandor Lauritsen, 3-0, outscored durable Serbian Mladen Obradovic, 0-2-1, over for. It was scored 40-36 on all cards and Obradovic proved to be a tough customer and Lauritsen was unable to hurt him.
Danish light heavyweight Jonas Madsen, 9-0 in the pros, 5-3 in the amateurs, goes for the vacant IBF Youth title against Hungarian Ferenc Albert, 23-11, June 17 in Aarhus in what is the tenth Danish Fight Night promotion since its beginning 18 months. Madsen is still green but have made excellent progress since turning pro.