Ditlev Rossing: record, next fight and profile →
The fight for the vacant EBU super featherweight title between Juli Giner 23-3-1, and Samir Ziani,28-3-1, will go ahead sometime in November in Barcelona with Gallego Prada Promociones staging it.
Former EBU and Italian heavyweight champion Franco Cavicchi passed away a few days ago at the age of 90. Cavicchi turned pro in 1952 in what was a golden era for Italian boxing and won the EBU title in Bologna in front of a crowd of 60,000 spectators by knocking out Heinz Neuhaus.
Danish cruiserweight Detlef "D-struction" Rossing, 8-0, takes on Ukrainian Viktor Polyakov, 13-4-1, September 15 in Copenhagen. Polyakov, a former Olympian, is now based in Germany and mainly campaigned in the past at super middleweight and holds wins over the likes of former world champ Giovanni De Carolis and Derrick Findley.
Danish Fight Night promotions returns after a brief layoff with a show at Frederiksberghallerne in Copenhagen on September 15 with a show with four headliners. With veteran Lolenga Mock gone from the team it´s up to the young prospects to enter the stage and take over.
Former cruiserweight champion Marco Huck steps up in weight, as previously reported, once again to the heavyweight division on June 16 in Munich and today Petko´s Box Promotion announced that Huck will face Yakub Saglam, 40-4-0-1 (37 KOs).
Copenhagen, Denmark - Super middleweight veteran Lolenga Mock, 42-14-1, did it again and outscored Russian former WBA champ Dmitri Chudinov, 20-2-3, over ten. It was a close, difficult to score fight with lots of tactical moves between two fighters not known for their speed. Mock made a slow start and Chudinov was ahead early on but then Mock´s jab began to land and Chudinov appeared to slow down.
Mogens Palle, who was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2008, celebrates his 60 year anniversary as a boxing promoter with an action-packed program in Copenhagen, Denmark on Friday January the 5th. Together with popular Danish former heavyweight fighter Brian Nielsen the 83-year old promoter now runs the Danish Fight Night boxing shows, which they started two years ago with mainly all new talents billed as “Tomorrow’s Champions”.
French heavyweight contender Johann Duhaupas will have his first fight in France, since early 2014, take place on December 14 in Levallois Perret on Asloum Promotion´s big show topped by lightweights Yvan Mendy vs Jesus Arevalo. Duhaupas has of lately fought on small hall events in Finland and also stepped in to challenge Alexander Povetkin but was knocked out in five. In Levalloi he takes on, for the WBA Int´l title, Newfel Outah (15-1) in an all French exciting matchup
18-year old super lightweight Oliver Meng impressed in his debut with a points win over Spaniard Iriome Penate, 3-1-2, Penate was down in the first, second and at the end of the fourth and final round but still made a fight of it as he kept coming and had his best round in the fourth when stunned by a short right. Meng jumped on his opponent and floored him with a barrage of punches as the bell rang. It was scored 40-33 on all cards.
If super middleweight Lolenga Mock wins over capable Ukrainian Roman Shkarupa next Saturday (Oct 28) in Copenhagen he will then take on former WBA interim-champ Dmitry Chudinov, 20-1-2, already set for November 25, also in Copenhagen. The contracts are signed reports Danish Fight Night in a press release.