By Per Ake Persson

Sauerland Event and Danish network TV 2 announced today their plans for professional boxing in Denmark. The Danish leg of Sauerland will feature comebacking super middleweight Rudy Markussen, lightweight Kim Poulsen, jr welterweight Kasper Bruun, middleweight Patrick Nielsen and also female welterweight Vinni Skovgaard. The first show is not yet announced but there will be six dates during 2010.
 
It will be Sweden vs Latvia on February 20 in Lulea, in the north of Sweden, when Arctic Pro Box does their first show. Headlining is comebacking featherweight and local hero Karl Larsson-Jones with heavyweight Pasi Haapoja, also a local man, making his prodebut against Pavels Dolgovs. There are six fights on the show and all opponents are from Latvia. This is the first professional boxing event in Lulea since 1967.
 
It´s official: IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight champ Wladimir Klitschko faces Eddie Chambers, mandatory challenger for the WBO, on Fortuna Duesseldor´s 51 000 seat arena on March 20 in Duesseldorf.
 
Arena Box Promotion will showcase both WBA featherweight champ Yuriorkis Gamboa and heavyweight Odlanier Solis on March 27 in Hamburg in their debut for network Sat 1.
 
Peter Schulze, manager for middleweight Khoren Gevor, says they are going to court with Universum. Gevor has claimed free agent status but was blocked by the German Federation, the BDB, from fighting on Saturday in Cuxhaven.
 
Osaga Promotion returns to Kenya for a show on February 27 in Nairobi headlined by Conjestina Achieng vs Angel McKenzie in a jr middleweight fight for the GBA female title. Promoter Caleb Kuya was last seen trying to stage a show in Denmark.