Enock Poulsen: record, next fight and profile →
Former EBU and Spanish welterweight and super welterweight champ Kerman Lejarraga (34-3) has announced his retirement from boxing. Lejarraga was all set to fight Pole Przemyslaw Runowski (20-2) on April 29 in Madrid.
Las Vegas-based Swedish cruiserweight Robin Safar (15-0) returns to action on Wednesday (April 19) in Plant City, Florida, where he is in against DeShon Webster (12-6-3). Safar fought just once during 2022 and suffered an arm injury when he knocked out Antonio Brown (8-2) in the very first round.
The oft-postponed fight between EBU super lightweight champion Enock Poulsen (12-0) and mandatory challenger Franck Petitjean (23-6-3) is on again and this time scheduled for April 29 with site still being Creteil (France) with Y 12 promoting the event.
Belgian bridgerweight and former WBA cruiserweight champion Ryad Merhy (31-1) reports on Facebook that he will fight former IBO cruiserweight ruler Kevin Lerena (28-2) in a WBC eliminator in Johannesburg on March 18.
The much anticipated rematch between Italian super middleweights Giovanni De Carolis (31-10-1) and Daniele Scardina (20-1) that was set for March 3 in Milano is off.
French heavyweight Tony Yoka (11-1) meets veteran Carlos Takam (39-7-1) on March 11 in Paris, France, reports L'Équipe. It will be Yoka's first fight since losing to Martin Bakole in May of last year - a loss that derailed his career.
Super middleweights Osleys Iglesias (7-0) and Andriy Velikovsky (21-2-2) meet for the vacant IBO title on Friday (Dec 9) in the headliner of Polsat Boxing Promotions show in Gliwice (Poland).
Polish cruiserweight Mateusz Masternak (46-5) and Australian Jason Whateley (10-0) clash in an IBF eliminator on October 29 in Zakopane (Poland).
OPI since 82 has announced on Twitter that Anderson Prestot's defense of the EBU middleweight title against ex-champ Matteo Signani will go ahead on November 18 in Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy.
French Y12 Boxing won the purse bids today for EBU super lightweight champ Enock Poulsen's mandatory defense against Franck Petitjean with a bid for 38,000 Euro. Danish Fight Night bid 35,343 Euro.