By Per Ake Persson

Sauerland Event has placed in a winning bid of 122,414 EUR for the right to promote Aleksander Alekseev vs. Enad Licina, with the vacant EBU cruiserweight title at stake. When and where will be announced shortly.
 
Alekseev, from Russia and an outstanding amateur, is now with EC Box Promotion, but began his career with Universum and seemed like a can't miss prospect - but then he lost to Victor Emilio Ramirez in 2009 and Denis Lebedev in 2010.
 
Now with EC, Alekseev hase begun to rebuild his career and gets a fine chance to move forward against Licina, who began his pro career with Spotlight Boxing and later joined Sauerland but finished second best in fights against Yoan Pablo Hernandez and Steve Cunningham. He was the mandatory challenger for Alexander Frenkel, who relinquished the EBU title and now Enad faces an even tougher challenge in Alekseev.