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French Y12, headed by promoter Yohan Zaoui, did it again and won purse bids for the fight for the vacant EBU super welterweight title between German Abass Baraou (12-1) and Frenchman Milan Prat (17-0) with an offer for 120,000 Euro - which is serious money in this weight division and for a European title. Abass promoter Wasserman Boxing bid 75,305 Euro.
Former WBA "regular" super middleweight champion Tyron Zeuge (24-1-1) will come back after over three years out. Zeuge has signed with the newly formed Fides Sport and promoter Burim Sylejmani. When and where the comeback will take place has yet to be announced.
Legacy Boxing continues its International Boxing Series with a big show on Friday (July 15) in Wuppertal (Germany). Former WBA junior middle champ Austin Trout (34-5-1) headlines, as previously reported by BoxingScene, but it won't be against Dutchman Steve Suppan, who got injured in training. Instead, matchmaker Flavio Oleaga has brought in Florin Cardos (21-3): Cardos is from Romania but based in London.
Heavyweight veteran and trainer Sherman "Tank" Williams is back in Denmark and this time to train Sarah Mahfoud as she prepares for her title fight February 1 on Copenhagen against IBF interim featherweight champ Brenda Carbajal.
A revived Universum Promotion, formerly a well-known German outfit organized by Klaus-Peter Kohl as the Universum Box-Promotion a long time ago, now led by Ismael Oezen as a new company, staged a nice-packed show this Saturday night at its citadel of Hamburg, Germany.
Joe Joyce (10-0) has finally secured a co-challenger for the vacant EBU heavyweight title and it is former longtime WBO cruiserweight king Marco Huck (41-5-1), who has accepted the nomination. The EBU have set October 10 as deadline for contracts or agreements.
BILD writes that former WBA, EBU and WBO light heavyweight champ Juergen Braehmer, 40-3, is in full training in Schwerin for a possible showdown against EBU super middle titleholder Robin Krasniqi - a man Braehmer beat when they were both light heavies.
Former WBA and WBC super middleweight champion Mikkel Kessler tells BT that he´s done. There will be no comeback and the 39-year old is now officially retired again. It was in the spring of last year that Kessler announced he was coming back and he stepped up his training.
IBF International heavyweight champion Alexander Dimitrenko (40-3) makes the first defence of the title that he won in March with a stunning upset win over Adrian Granat on December 22 in Hamburg. Opponent is to be announced. On the undercard Adrian Granat (14-1) returns to action after loss to Dimitrenko, with an eight-rounder against Georgian Irakli Gvenetadze.
Croatian heavyweight Agron Smakici (10-0) is scheduled to fight against Oleksy Mazikin (14-12-2) on December 22nd. Smakici, who is half Kosovan and half Croatian, started his fighting career with MMA and Kickboxing. Many believe that he resembles heavyweight great Wladimir Klitchko and that aspect has made him popular on the streets in Germany. But he think his style is totally different from Ukrainian Legend.