Emre Cukur: record, next fight and profile →
WBO female super bantamweight champ Dina Thorslund and Team Sauerland have parted ways. Thorslund´s contract was due to expire this month and won´t be extended. With Team Sauerland, Thorslund won WBC Youth, EBU, WBC Interim and WBO 122 lb titles.
Former WBA interim-super middleweight champ Giovanni De Carolis (28-9-1) is now official challenger for the vacant EBU title. In the other corner is German Emre Cukur (14-0), who´s been in that position for some time and before De Carolis came along it was Juergen Braehmer who was official challenger.
ESPN+ will televise the SES show on Saturday headlined by IBO light heavyweight champ Sven Fornling taking on Dominic Boesel - a fight that is also for the vacant WBA Interim title, reports boxen1.com.
EBU light heavyweight champ Dominic Boesel (29-1) feels that the 175 lb division is just as interesting as the heavyweights these days and picks "Canelo`" Alvarez vs "Krusher" Kovalev fight this past weekend as a perfect example as Alvarez stepped up two weight divisions for the chance.
Huck Service GmBH won today´s purse bids for the fight for the vacant EBU heavyweight title between Marco Huck and Joe Joyce with a bid for 480,000 Euro. Queensberry Promotions bid 358,000 Euro. When and where is to be announced within the next few weeks but it´s likely to go ahead at before the end of the year in Germany.
Former cruiserweight world champion Firat Arslan (44-8-2) won the GBU title by second round stoppage against Pascal Ndomba (23-9-2). The 48 year old Turkish-German fighter still keeps his hopes alive to get a world title shot. "My aim is to be the oldest world champion in the cruiserweight division history," said Arslan.
Despite his recent setback against Arthur Abraham, multi-fight veteran Robin Krasniqi (48-5, 17 KOs) continued his road as a contender in the super middleweight division with a very close win over willing but plodding Russian Stanislav Kashtanov (36-3, 21 KOs), a former WBA interim titleholder. He is now the new European (EBU) 168lb titleholder.