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Joe "Juggernaut" Joyce's defense of the EBU heavyweight title against former cruiserweight champ Marco Huck goes to purse bids with June 14 as the deadline.
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Joe "Juggernaut" Joyce's defense of the EBU heavyweight title against former cruiserweight champ Marco Huck goes to purse bids with June 14 as the deadline.

Maki Boxing of Finland won the purse bids held in Rome today for the fight between Edis Tatli (32-3) and Gianluca Cegli (16-3-1) for the vacant EBU lightweight title with a bid for 42,001 Euro. Italian Buccione Boxing Team came in second best with a bid for 38,500 Euro.

Former British champion Brian Rose (31-6-1) fights tomorrow (March 20) in Badia del Valle, Spain ,and squares off against Juan Manuel Lopez Clavero (13-14-1) in the headliner of this Gallego Prada and Team Sole promotion. This is Rose's first fight since losing to Anthony Fowler in August of 2019.

Finnish lightweight Edis Tatli is still having problems with his injured shoulder and has been forced to pull out of the fight for the vacant EBU lightweight title against Italian Gianluca Ceglia (15-3-1). This is a matchup that has been postponed a few times already both due to Covid-19 and Tatli's injury.

Maravilla Box will go ahead with their show in Torrelavega (Spain) on December 19 - but the event will have some changes due to COVID-19. Maravilla himself, former two division world champion Sergio Martinez, will continue his comeback against Finn boxer Jussi Koivula. And Sergio Garcia will defend the EBU title super welterweight title against Andranik Hakobyan along with three undercard fights that includes Norwegian featherweight Bernard Torres.

Asloum Event began the new season with a show on August 29 in Cap d' Agde (France) billed as No Limit XII. On the bill is the likes of lightweight Yvan Mendy (44-5-1), super featherweight Guillaume Frenois (47-2-1), bantamweight Elie Konke (9-0), middleweight Christian Mbili (16-0) and former Olympian Sofiane Oumha in his pro debut. Opponents for all are to be announced.

The EBU is back in business after the lockdown and have announced some dates for their title fights. As BoxingScene.com previously reported, the much awaited fight for the vacant EBU heavyweight: title between British rivals Joe Joyce (10-0) and Daniel Dubois (14-0) is now rescheduled for October 14 with London as site.

EBU lightweight champion Edis Tatli (32-3) had surgery to fix his right shoulder earlier this week and his title defence against Italian challenger Gianluca Ceglia that was set for August 8 in Savonlinna (Finland) is now postponed until a later date.

The Edis Tatli (32-3) vs Gianluca Ceglia (15-3-1) fight for the vacant EBU lightweight title will go ahead on August 8 on the annual outdoor show in Savonlinna (Finland) reports the EBU. Tatli is a big favourite to win the title a third time.

Agon Sports won today´s purse bids in Rome for the right to stage the fight for the vacant EBU super middleweight title between Tyron Zeuge (24-1-1) and Giovanni De Carolis (28-9-1) with an offer for 96,000 Euro. Italian Buccioni Boxing Team bid 90,000 Euro. When and where is to be announced.