
Yves Ngabu vs. Micki Nielsen Finalized For February 16, Belgium
Micki Nielsen (25-1, 15 KOs) will challenge Yves Ngabu (19-0, 14 KOs) for the European Cruiserweight title on February 16 at the Eventhal Schiervelde in Roeselare, Belgium.
Yves Ngabu: record, next fight and profile →

Micki Nielsen (25-1, 15 KOs) will challenge Yves Ngabu (19-0, 14 KOs) for the European Cruiserweight title on February 16 at the Eventhal Schiervelde in Roeselare, Belgium.

Badou Jack "The Ripper" was interviewed by Swedish news agency TT recently and said that his next fight will be either January 12 or January 19. It will be a non-title fight against an opponent to be announced. Jack also said he would be facing the winner of Adonis Stevenson and Oleksandr Gvozdyk most likely in May 2019. Stevenson and Gvozdyk battle for the WBC light heavyweight title next month in Canada.

EBU cruiserweight champ Yves Ngabu will get hometown advantage for his mandatory defence against Dane Micki Nielsen - this became clear as the Belgian BFN Group won purse bids today in Rome.

EBU heavyweight champ Agit Kabayel will not be making the voluntary defence of the title that was planned for some time. Instead he is ordered by the EBU to move on to the mandatory defence against Swedish challenger Otto Wallin.

Heavyweights Michael Wallisch, 19-0, and Christian Hammer, 23-5, meet December 15 at the Sporthalle in Hamburg on a big dinner show promoted by EC Boxing and Michael Wollenbach, a prominent chef who now obtained a promoter´s license, reports BILD.

Romanian cruiserweight Alexandru Jur suffered a crushing one round knockout loss this past weekend against noted puncher Dmitry Kudryashov in Kemerovo (Russia). This loss cost him the position as mandatory challenger for the EBU title held by Belgian Yves Ngabu, 19-0, and opened the door for an all-Belgian showdown between Ngabu and Ryad Merhy, 25-1.

IBO light heavyweight Karo Murat was cut in sparring and his defence against Swedish challenger - and stablemate in EC boxing - Sven Fornling is off. This fight might be on again in December, writes Aftonbladet. Elevated to headline status is now the fight between super welterweights Sebastian Formella, 18-0, and Ilias Essaoudi, 13-0, in a fight for the WBO Euro super welter title.

The First Lady, WBA, WBC, WBO, IBF and IBO female welter champion Cecilia Braekhus is now off the big September 15th event in Las Vegas where Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez headline in a rematch.

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.