By Per Ake Persson
Felix-Promotion in Hungary have officially announced that EBA super middleweight champ Joszef Nagy will defend the title in Szentes on September 9 against Brit Darren Rhodes. WBO I/C featherweight champ Andres Meszaros co-headlines. Opponent for him haven´t been announced yet.
It will be South African Andile Tshongolo that takes on WBO number two middleweight Khoren Gevor on September 19 in Cuxhaven. Also on the bill are prospects Vitalij Tajbert and Sebastian Kober.
Virgil Hill vs Henry Maske was announced on August 23 at a press conference in Munich. It will be non-title fight fought at a weight somewhere between the light heavyweight and cruiser limit. As for the date German news agency dpa writes that it will be at the end of February or the beginning of March 2007 at the Olympia Halle in Munich where Hill beat Maske back in 96.
Steel Ring´s show in Kemi, Finland, on September 2 features three pro fights. Jr middleweight Mika Joensuu takes on Estonian Dimitri Protkunas. Norwegian super bantamweight Reidar Walstad is in against Sergej Tasimov and super middleweight Harri Okkonen square off against Andrey Tolstykh. VIP hostess is local celebrity and ex-model Jasmin Mantyla.
Ex-WBA and bantamweight champ Johnny Bredahl is having cold feet about continuing his comeback, writes Ekstrabladet. Bredahl says in the article he lost his desire to fight. The soon to be 38-year old ex-champ retired in the fall of 2004 due to continued hand problems, but came back in March of 06 and looked relatively good in beating Russian Alexander Fedorov.
Norwegian jr welterweight Geir Inge Jorgensen is back home but will return to the US on September 2 for final preparations for his fight in Detroit, MI, September 23. Jorgensen, 22-0, has for various reasons been out of the ring since September of last year.
EU heavyweight champ Michael Sprott has Frenchman Steve Herelius as his official challenger.
