By Per Ake Persson
Universum won today´s purse bid for EBU light heavyweight champ Stipe Drews´ defense against Kai Kurzawa. Date and site will be announced within two weeks. There were two other bidders for this fight; Sauerland Event, who promotes Kurzawa, and Elite Boxing Promotion.
IBF middleweight champ Arthur Abraham will defend against Kofi Jantuah on May 13 in Zwickau. It´s a voluntary defense for Abraham who will then to take on official challenger Edison Miranda. Co-headlining the Zwickau event is WBC ruler Markus Beyer. Opponent for him isn´t announced yet.
WIBF super middleweight champ Natascha Ragosina takes on Carlette Virginia Ewell on April 15 in Magdeburg. Ragosina vs Ewell is also for the GBU belt.
Italian veteran Gianfranco Rosi canceled his fight in Drochtersen, Germany, this weekend on very short notice due to illness. Previously the IBF had withdrawn its recognition for Rosi vs Christophe Karagoz for the IBF Mediterranean 160 lb title. The show as a whole was sanctioned by the GBA and went ahead as scheduled with cruiserweight Denis Simcic stopping faded veteran Bruce Ozbeck in the tenth for the vacant GBC and EBF titles.
