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Copenhagen, Denmark - Cruiserweight Detlef Rossing, 9-0, stopped Viktor Polyakov, 13-5-1, at 1.52 of the second round. Rossing scored with a right hand-left hook combination and Polyakov went down on his back and as he got up it was stopped.
IBO light heavyweight champ Karo Murat, 32-3-1, defends the title against IBF Baltic and Swedish titleholder Sven Fornling, 14-1, in the headliner of EC Boxing´s show at the Hansehalle in Luebeck September 15.
Danish Fight Night promotions returns after a brief layoff with a show at Frederiksberghallerne in Copenhagen on September 15 with a show with four headliners. With veteran Lolenga Mock gone from the team it´s up to the young prospects to enter the stage and take over.
Former cruiserweight champion Marco Huck steps up in weight, as previously reported, once again to the heavyweight division on June 16 in Munich and today Petko´s Box Promotion announced that Huck will face Yakub Saglam, 40-4-0-1 (37 KOs).
Huck Box Promotion and Petko´s Box Promotion join forces for a show in Munich on June 16. Topping the bill is former cruiserweight king Marco Huck - now back at heavyweight. Huck fought Alexander Povetkin for the WBA standard heavyweight title in 2012, but lost a close call to a champ who was obviously not in the best condition.
Copenhagen, Denmark - Super middleweight veteran Lolenga Mock, 42-14-1, did it again and outscored Russian former WBA champ Dmitri Chudinov, 20-2-3, over ten. It was a close, difficult to score fight with lots of tactical moves between two fighters not known for their speed. Mock made a slow start and Chudinov was ahead early on but then Mock´s jab began to land and Chudinov appeared to slow down.
Mogens Palle, who was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2008, celebrates his 60 year anniversary as a boxing promoter with an action-packed program in Copenhagen, Denmark on Friday January the 5th. Together with popular Danish former heavyweight fighter Brian Nielsen the 83-year old promoter now runs the Danish Fight Night boxing shows, which they started two years ago with mainly all new talents billed as “Tomorrow’s Champions”.
Lightweights Howik Bebraham (11-0) and Fedor Papazov (20-2) will square off in an official IBO eliminator early next year. The winner will then face IBO champ Emmanuel Tagoe. Bebraham is promoted by Petko´s Box Promotion in Munich (Germany).
18-year old super lightweight Oliver Meng impressed in his debut with a points win over Spaniard Iriome Penate, 3-1-2, Penate was down in the first, second and at the end of the fourth and final round but still made a fight of it as he kept coming and had his best round in the fourth when stunned by a short right. Meng jumped on his opponent and floored him with a barrage of punches as the bell rang. It was scored 40-33 on all cards.
Swedish heavyweight Adrian Granat, now trained by former WBO middleweight champ Armand Krajnc, takes on Bosnian Abdulnaser Delalic, 2-3, at the EC Boxing gym in Hamburg. Delalic fought on the undercard on the same show in March where Granat was knocked out in one by Aleksander Dimitrenko and put up one good round before tiring against Junior Maximus was stopped in the second. Anything but an early win for Granat, 14-1, would be a huge sensation.