By Per Ake Persson
July 5 at the Gerry Weber Stadium in Halle/Westfalen, rematches between WBA heavyweight champ Ruslan Chagaev and Nikolai Valuev and WBA middleweight champ Felix Sturm and Randy Griffin on top. Griffin looked unlucky only to get a draw the first time around.
Universum Champion´s night on May 31 will go ahead but in Duesseldorf, headlined by WIBF and WBC featherweight queen Ina Menzer taking on Stacey Reile. WBA bantamweight champ Wladimir Sidorenko co-headlines in his mandatory defense against Panamanian Anselmo Moreno. Cruiser Aleksander Alekseev is in against Louis Azille in a scheduled ten-rounder.
Swiss Boxing Kings Promotion stages a show in Bern on May 23 with light heavyweight Momo Belkacem and middleweight Yves Studer headlining.
Retired Swedish super middleweight Fredrik Alvarez has sued the Swedish healthcare function for the mistreatment of a hand injury he suffered during his fighting days. The story is that Fredrik slipped on some stairs back in 99 after beating Ed Dalton in Denmark and cut himself on a bottle. The injury was treated in Sweden but the pain in the hand remained and not until over six months later after winning over Louis Llovet was it discovered that a huge piece of glass were left in the hand. The hand was according to Alvarez permanently damaged and ruined his career. Fredrik fought on until 2002 but suffered bad losses at the hands of Andrei Shkalikov and Evans Ashira. Alvarez is suing for well over a million american dollars in damages. Fredrik has already received some compensation for the permanent injuries he suffers from, but wants a lot more.
