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Hamburg – ARENA-Boss Ahmet Öner fought for his #1 rated heavyweight Juan Carlos Gomez at the 46th annual WBC Convention in Chengdu (China) and got what he wanted: Vitali Klitschko has to defend his belt against mandatory challenger Gomez immediately
Rising lightweight star Breidis Prescott signed with ARENA Box-Promotion and Decubas Presents, LLC. Brescott, ARENA-CEO Ahmet Öner and Ricardo Decubas just finalized the deal in Miami, Florida.
Odlanier Solis is new WBC international heavyweight champion. “La Sombra” beat Chauncy Welliver by TKO, Referee Daniel Van de Wiele stopped the one-sided fight in round 9.
Today ARENA-CEO Ahmet Öner announced that he will not continue his cooperation with Gary Shaw Productions in the US. Together ARENA and GSP had featured Cuban rising superstar Yuriorkis Gamboa on “HBO Boxing After Dark” on May 17th and October 4th.
On September 27th, ARENA-fighter Juan Carlos Gomez and Universum’s Wladimir Virchis face in their long estimated showdown WBC final elimination bout to challenge the winner of Vitali Klitschko vs. Samuel Peter.
“Mini-Tyson” Selcuk Aydin strikes again! After only 32 seconds in the 2nd round the WBC International Champion hat stopped his challenger Marat Khuzeev with a stunning left uppercut. It took several minutes for the physicians to bring the Russian back to his feet.
On September 12th two of ARENA’s hottest rising stars will take their next steps towards the top of the world. Heavyweight sensation “La Sombra” Odlanier Solis is looking to score his 11th win in his 11th pro-fight. The 2004 Olympic gold medallist and three-time world amateur champion is returning from a shoulder injury that prevented him from fighting since early June. “I am fired up to get back into the ring”, states Solis. “In professional sports injuries are part of the game. Still it is hard to sit and wait for the next fight when you know you could be out there kicking someone’s a**…”
At a press conference in Ankara on Tuesday Sinan Samil Sam received the European championship belt that he had won by majority decision against Paolo Vidoz on July 4th.
Last week ARENA-CEO Ahmet Öner decided to quit his engagement with the German boxing commission (BDB). The BDB didn’t strip his license as falsely reported. Öner himself left the BDB as Wilfried Sauerland and the Klitschkos had done before him.
Today the European Boxing Union (EBU) announced that Sinan Samil Sam is the new European heavyweight champion.