By Per Ake Persson
New Zealander Kali Meehan takes on American Tommy Connelly on the big Lamon Brewster vs Luan Krasniqi bill in Hamburg, later today. The show has only heavyweights and Universum has one of their "eliminators" on the undercard as Bagran Ohanyan clashes with Valery Chechenev. Also in the family, almost, is Alex Mazikin vs Goran Gogic. Hard punching Russian Denis Boytsov is looking for his ninth win by KO against Hungarian Janos Somogyi. Referee for the mainevent is Puerto Rican Jose H. Rivera.
German heavyweights Cengiz Koc and Rene Dettweiler were both denied a visa to the US and thus fell off the Klitschko vs Peter bill. Sauerland Even replaced them with Henry Akinwande, who stopped his opponent, also a very late sub, in the second, and jr middleweight Alexander Sipos, who won in the in third, but will have to postpone his EU titlefight against Frencman Jimmy Colas set for October 1 in Oldenburg until November 12.
IBF I/C 154 lb champ Gotthard Hinteregger defends the title against Marco Schulze on October 29 in Oranienburg. Female super middleweight Natascha Ragosina will go for the WIBF world title in the headliner.
Danish cruiser Johny Jensen takes on Hungarian veteran Zoltan Beres on September 29 in Slagelse.
EU welter ruler Michele Orlando now has exciting and hardpunching Belgian Jackson Osei Bonsu as official challenger.
Finnish jr welter Juho Tolppola takes on German Nico Salzmann on September 30 in Helsinki. Stablemate, unbeaten middle Asim Asikainen squares off against Tagir Rzaev.
Bad luck for NYC-based Swedish middleweight Manjie Conteh who saw his fight this past weekend go up in smoke as his opponent failed the medical. Manjie is now looking toward a fight on November 4.
Norwegian heavyweight Rune Lillebuen, 11-0, has replaced compatriot Leif Dolonen Larsen on Team Palle´s show in Slagelse on September 30. Dolonen Larsen is said to have suffered a hand injury in his final day of training. Lillebuen takes on Toto Mubenga from Congo in a six-rounder.
German heavyweight Cengiz Koc has been added to Sauerland Event´s October 1 show in Oldenburg.
