By Per Ake Persson
37-year old German heavyweight Axel Schulz is still thinking about coming back, but his former manager Wilfried Sauerland states in the Hamburger Abendblatt it won´t be with Sauerland Event.
When WBA # 9 super middleweight Lucien Bute arrived in Denmark to watch stablemate Eric Lucas take on WBA champ Mikkel Kessler he stated he wanted to fight Kessler inside a year.
After Kessler´s onesided stoppage, win Bute and his manager Chris Ganutescu hadn´t changed their mind: "Lucien is ready in a year" said Ganutescu.
Bute next fight is on March 24 in Montreal against an opponent to be announced.
Spanish super bantamweight Kiko Martinez squares off against Ukrainian Gennady Delissandru on January 24 in Hamburg.
The winner of the fight between Michele Piccirillo and Lukas Konecny for the vacant EBU 154 lb title on February 24 in Bergamo, is lined up to fight local hero Luca Messi. In case Konecny wins, he will make a voluntary defense in Prague and then face Messi while Piccirillo will go straight to this all-Italian showdown.
IBC jr. lightweight champ Janos Nagy may take on Russian Evgeny Strausov on February 18 in Budapest.
The undercard to Sauerland Event´s doubleheader on January 28 in Berlin features big heavyweight Timo Hoffmann, IBF Youth jr middleweight champ Zauerbek Baysangourov, cruiserweight Marco Huck and heavyweight Rene Dettweiler.
It will be Venezuelan Luis Enrique Carmona that fights ex-WBC jr middleweight ruler Javier Castillejo on February 3 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Italian cruiserweight Giacobbe Fragomeni headlines OPI 2000´s show in Brescia on January 31. Also on the bill is an Italian title fight at bantamweight between Fabrizio Tronu and Mercurio Ciamitario.
Official challenger for newly crowned EBU light heavyweight champ Stipe Drews is Italian Pietro Aurino.
Dutch middle Raymond is on the short list of possible opponents for IBF champ Arthur Abraham´s March 4 defense in Oldenburg.
