By Per-Ake Persson
Aftonbladet, a large evening paper, brought yesterday an interview with former WBU 135 lb champ George Scott. The paper couldn´t resist telling the story about a barroom brawl a few months back between Scott and another alltime great in Swedish boxing, two-time EBU heavy champ Anders Eklund. Scott is said to have knocked out the much bigger Eklund with an upercut. Both men have in the past been involved in some alcohol related incidents but do relatively well in retirement. Eklund works as a carpenter while Scott is looking forward to a job at a new training centre in Thailand and is of course in full training for his K 1 fight May 23 in Stockholm against Zoltan Sarossy. The Scott v Sarossy promises more boxing than kicks as both men reportedly have suffered leg injuries. There´s said to be about 10 000 tickets sold for this event at the huge Globen Arena. As to why K 1 is allowed and professional boxing prohibited the answer is again that K 1 was not existing by the time the Swedish Parliament outlawed proboxing. K 1 is thus not included in the law. A new law is in the works but can at the earliest be taken into account July 1 2006.
WBA supermiddle champ Mikkel Kessler is back in full training, spars with Martin Nielsen, and leaves for Australia May 23 for his June 8 defence against Anthony Mundine.
Polish Hammer Knockout Promotions stage a show May 21 in Zdieszowice in the south of Poland topped by WBC Youth champ at lightheavy Dawid Kostecki, who takes on Tanzanian Joseph Marwa. Hammer Knockout is back already June 11 with cruiser Krzyztof Wlodarzcyk headlining and heavyweight Tomasz Bonin back after a layoff. Site have yet to be determined but is said to be close to Warzaw.
Unbeaten Norwegian jr welter Geir Inge Jorgensen heads for Detroit this week for training camp with among others Wladimir Klitschko and WBA 140 lb champ Vivian Harris.
