Anthony Yigit: record, next fight and profile →
Anthony ‘Can You Dig It?!’ Yigit (21-0-1, 7 KOs) has been named ‘Champion of the Year’ by the European Boxing Union for 2017. The 26 year-old from Stockholm enjoyed a successful year, which saw him claim the European Boxing Union (EBU) belt behind enemy lines before making two successive defences including a historic homecoming fight in Stockholm.
Hamburg-based promoters EC Boxing, headed by Erol Ceylan, promotes a big event in Trabzon, Turkey, on May 19. Topping the bill is super lightweight Fatih Keles, 10-0-1, in a defence of the WBO European title. In other action former WBA cruiserweight champ Firat Arslan, 41-8-2, heavyweight Ali Eren Demirezen, 8-0, and Huseyn Cinkara, 11-0, appear. Opponents are to be announced in the next few days.
MK Events won today´s purse bids in Rome for EBU super lightweight champion Anthony Yigit´s mandatory defence against Franck Petitjean. MK bid 50,000 Euro while Sauerland Event offered 35,305. MK have set the fight for Paris, on May 5.
Super middleweight Stefan Haertel, 15-0, 1ko, is in against Adam Deines, 15-0-1, in his debut for SES March 3 in Weissenfels. Haertel, a former Olympian, has had all his previous fights with Sauerland Event. Light heavyweight Enrico Koelling, 24-2, is also to fight in Weissenfels and like Haertel, this is his debut for SES.
The chief support to the World Boxing Super Series semifinal on Saturday (Feb 24) in Nuremberg fell apart when Nieky Holzken stepped in for Juergen Braehmer to face Callum Smith and that left Dmitry Chudinov without a fight.
Undefeated 140-pound contender Regis Prograis and former world champion Viktor Postol will face off for the vacant WBC Super Lightweight World Championship on Friday, March 9 in the 12-round main event of SHOWTIME BOXING: SPECIAL EDITION live on SHOWTIME at 10 p.m. ET/PT from Deadwood Mountain Grand in Deadwood, South Dakota.
Just for the record: Marvin Petit knocked out Samir Kasmi in the seventh round Saturday night in Levallois, won the fight fair and square and was declared the WBA Continental champ. It was after the fight had ended, that people began to throw chairs at each other and a riot broke out. Why the fight is still listed as a "no contest" is a difficult question - but the fact is it is still listed as a no contest at ffboxe.fr - the official site of the French Federation but it should be KO 7 for Petit.
Anthony Yigit retained his European super-lightweight crown on away soil. The Swede scored an unanimous decision against Joe Hughes at the Leicester Arena. Yigit, whose nickname is ‘Can You Dig It?’, had long been mentioned as a potential future foe for Commonwealth and WBC Silver super-lightweight champion Josh Taylor.
Anthony Yigit (20-0-1, 7 KOs) and his opponent Joe Hughes (15-2-1, 6 KOs) both made weight today ahead of their European Super Lightweight Championship fight tomorrow at the Leicester Arena in Leicester, United Kingdom. Yigit, from Stockholm, Sweden, will be making a second defence of the EBU strap he claimed with a unanimous points victory over former British Champion Lenny Daws and then retained in a historic hometown bout with Sandor Martin.
Anthony Yigit (20-0-1, 7 KOs) has signed a contract extension with Team Sauerland. The 26 year-old has committed his future to the power promoter ahead of his European Super Lightweight title defence against Joe Hughes on Saturday at the Leicester Arena.