Noel Gevor Mikaelian: record, next fight and profile →
Season I star Mairis Briedis vs. Noel Mikaelian and Krzysztof Glowacki vs. Maksim Vlasov are the two Quarter-Finals on an incredible doubleheader when the World Boxing Super Series comes to the UIC Pavilion in Chicago, USA.
The four matchups for the World Boxing Super Series’ second cruiserweight tournament were announced Wednesday. None of the dates and sites for those four fights were revealed Wednesday. The tournament will begin sometime in October and the championship match will take place at some point next summer.
World Factory Event came in with the only bid today in Rome - and Ronny Landeata and none other than Juergen Braehmer will go for the vacant EU super middleweight title on August 25 in Malaga. There? no word on if the former world champ actually will go through with the fight.
Hungarian cruiserweight Imre Szello, 20-0, takes on Venezuelan Williams Ocando, 18-5, on Friday (May 11) at the Laszlo Papp Hall in Szentes. On the undercard middleweight Norbert Harcsa, 8-1, returns after almost a year out and square off against Polish veteran Mariusz Biskupski. 23-46-2 on this Felix Racz promotion.
The Danish Fight Night scheduled for April 27 in Nykobing Falster has been postponed due injuries and visa problems for some of the visiting fighters. A new date will be announced soon. Light heavyweight Andreas Lynggaard, 5-1, and super lightweight Enock Poulsen (7-0) are still to headline.
Super middleweight Denis Radovan scored a workmanlike unanimous decision over Yann Binanga Aboghe (6-2-1) of Gabon over six rounds. Radovan improves to 6-0, 2 KOs. Two streaks continued in a fight between German super middleweight Leon Bunn, 25, and Polish 42-year old veteran Lukasz Gargula. Gargula (18-8-1, 8 KOs) lost his seventh fight in a row, while Bunn scored his sixth consecutive knockout in the same number of fights. This one was registered as a TKO in round five. Time was 2:00.
It was rough, it was close, and it was very stressing at the end, but former two-time cruiserweight champion Krzysztof Wlodarczyk utilized his diabolic "ninth life" to overcome previously undefeated contender Noel Gevor with a split nod in the main event of the show, co-promoted by KnockOut Promotions (Andrzej Wasilewski and Piotr Werner) and Babilon Promotions (Tomasz Babilonski).
German cruiserweight Noel Gevor (22-10, KOs) says he is confident of causing an upset when he meets former IBF and WBC World Champion Krzysztof Wlodarczyk (52- 3-1, 37 KOs) tomorrow at the Hala Arena in Poznan, Poland.
Juho Haapoja (27-7-2) and Leonardo Damian Bruzzese (17-2-0) will as previously reported clash for the vacant EU cruiserweight title March 25 in Helsinki on a show promoted by Dominus Boxing Group with Pekka Maeki as matchmaker.
Bild writes that Sauerland Event have signed up 31-year old heavyweight Michael Wallisch , who was previously with SES and before that with EC. Wallisch will be trained by the legendary Ulli Wegner in Berlin. When he makes his debut for Sauerland is not known.