After a very good training camp with his team led by renowned coach Marc Ramsay, heavyweight Arslanbek Makhmudov was ready to take on the toughest opponent of his career, Erkan Teper.
Eye of the Tiger Management (EOTTM) held the official weigh-in for the event being presented by La Reine des Bières, Mise-O-Jeu and Videotron, and taking place tomorrow, September 23, live from the Videotron Centre in Quebec City.
German contender Erkan Teper will not be able to fight former cruiserweight champion Murat Gassiev on July 22 in Moscow. Another representative of Germany, Michael Wallisch, has become the next opponent for the Russian boxer, according to Vasily Konov.
German veteran Erkan Teper is a good opponent for former world champion Murat Gassiev at this stage of his career, according to the Russian boxer's coach Vitaly Slanov. The fight between Gassiev and Teper is scheduled to take place on July 22 at the Dynamo Arena in Moscow.
Murat Gassiev is set for his next heavyweight adventure. The former unified WBA/IBF cruiserweight titlist will next face Germany’s Erkan Teper, with their scheduled 10-round bout to take place July 22 at Dynamo Volleyball Arena in Moscow.
At the EWS Arena in Goeppingen, Germany, IBO cruiserweight champion Kevin Lerena (25-1, 12 KOs) secured one of the biggest wins of his career when he battered and stopped former WBA champion Firat Arslan (47-9-3, 32 KOs) in the sixth round.
Although it was made public by Sven Fornling and his management on September 9, SES finally announced the fight between IBO light heavyweight titleholder Sven Fornling (15-1) and Dominic Boesel (29-1) on November 16 in Halle an der Saale. The show is billed as "Das WM-PROJECT" but there are two titles at stake and there is a "small" problem that comes along with that.
Swedish middleweight Shady Gamhour (11-0), who is promoted by Roy Jones Jr. Promotions, is having some bad luck in getting his fight for the NBA I/C title off the ground. It was first scheduled for September 4 in Hattiesburg, MS, but the show was postponed. This weekend it was on again but now in Augusta, GA, but the opponent, Rashad Jones, came in according to Gamhour, 12-pounds too heavy and the fight was scrapped by the commission. Next up for Shady is a training camp in Russia.
It appears that the cause of death of Borislav Velichkov, on Saturday evening in the ring in Shkoder, Albania, was heart failure. And apparently this was a pre-existing condition so boxing appears to be on the hook in a big way, as far as the blame to this terrible and tragic accident.
The EU heavyweight title has been vacant since Otto Wallin relinquished it sometime in the summer of last year. Among the nominated challengers have been the likes of Robert Helenius, Petar Milas, Marcin Siwy, Erkan Teper and Cyril Leonet but no fight has materialized. The title - a sub title to the EBU - generally means a risky matchup for relatively small money and thus isn´t very popular.