Aydin Stops Bonsu, Mikkel Kessler/Sauerland Update

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In Istanbul, Turkey, welterweight Selcuk Aydin stopped Jackson Osei Bonsu on a ninth round TKO. In a fight between two punchers the man with the best chin won and Aydin had Jackson down in the fourth and ninth. At stake was the WBC Int´l title held by Selcuk, the vacant EBU belt and it was also a final WBC eliminator.
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Sauerland are obviously confident their legal position is strong.

As for Palle's handling of Kessler, it was decent - until the post-Calzaghe phase, when it became a textbook example of a world class fighter stagnating at Euro-level, despite the presence of an ABC title.

Fighters don't owe their promoters **** - if the fighter wasn't making them money, the promoters wouldn't care less about them.

[Dave Rado]

As for Palle's handling of Kessler, it was decent - until the post-Calzaghe phase, when it became a textbook example of a world class fighter stagnating at Euro-level, despite the presence of an ABC title.

Precisely, I don't understand why the author appears to be so pro-Palle. As you say Palle was quite good until the Calzaghe fight, but absolutely terrible as soon as Kessler was recognised as a world class level fighter.

[Bogs]

Who has served who?

What Mr. Persson writes here is a very loyal rendition of the views of the "hall-of-fame promoter". Even to the point of claiming that Kessler does not actually have a deal with Sauerland as yet. That is a point that I have seen people around Palle make in other places, but I have not read that in Danish media.

He is obviously right in pointing out that if Kessler cannot defeat Gusmyl Perdomo, then it will be difficult to justify his position in the tournament. But a decisive loss to Perdomo would make it difficult see where to go for Kessler anyway, no matter who the promoter would be.

As to Palle building up Kessler. Well, yes, that is the job of a promoter. But Kessler went in there and won the fights. And for the past five years, Kessler has been the cash cow of Palle, keeping the business going for Palle in otherwise hard times. And Palle has earned more money on that than Kessler himself.

In the case of the Calzaghe fight, Kessler got in the environment of 5 million dollars. But one third of that went to the manager, Bettina Palle (the daughter of Mogens Palle), and Mogens Palle took the Scandinavian tv-rights for himself, earning a yet undisclosed amount on Scandinavian pay-per-view, with Kessler getting no share.

The fact that the Palle family earned more on the Calzaghe fight than Kessler himself is at the core of the conflict between Kessler and Palle, apart from the three options that Kessler claims he did not know he was signing when he signed the Häussler fight contract. It's word against word on that one.