July 3, Hamburg, Germany:
No-one of the fighters had problems making weight and everybody in attendance shed at least a kilo or two at the weigh-in on this blistering hot day for tomorrow´s big show at the Color Line Arena. “Fast” Eddie Chambers came in at 94,5 kg / 208,25 lbs and gives away about ten centimeter / almost four inches in height to Aleksander Dimitrenko, 115 kg / 253 kg. All in all Dimitrenko is a big favourite but Chambers is the better boxer. Can Eddie pull off a “Chris Byrd”-like performance he might pull it off.
Argentinian Paolo Vazquez is in tough tomorrow against much-better-than-his-record Vasile Surcica, who hails from Romania but fights out of Barcelona, Spain.
Doing his last show is veteran Jean Marcel Narz. who was there along with Wilfried Sauerland when German boxing was revived in the late 70´s and early 80´s. Narz was matchmaker for Sauerland for a long time in a time that saw the likes of Graciano Rocchigiani, Henry Maske, Axel Schulz, Sven Ottke, Markus Beyer and many other develop into top class fighters. Marcel left for Universum a few years ago where he´s had various responibilities. Narz won´t leave boxing though and will become vice-President in the German Federation, the BDB.
On the status of WBA supermiddle champ Mikkel Kessler´s mandatory defence against Spotlight Boxing-signed Venezuelan Gusmyl Perdomo promoter Dietmar Poszwa said “I don´t know, we have been waiting for a date for some time now. We are giving Perdomo a keep-busy fight July 11 and hope things work out. We have exellent relations with Team Palle and would like to keep it that way but can´t wait forever either.”
On a possible defence in Germany by WBA lightheavy champ Gabriel Campillo mr Poszwa simply said: “I don´t know”. Rumor is that Campillo will fight Juergen Brahmer but that is for now only a rumor.
It appears that Polish welter Rafael Jackiewicz is heading for a IBF eliminator at home in Rzeszow August 1 on a Bullit Knockout promotion. Opponent have yet to be announced.
Kazach welter Victor Demayenko is back home after a stint in Las Vegas. There is at the moment no fights scheduled for the 16-0 prospect.
Spanish lightweight Francisco Nohales, 19-12,4, is about to retire after a disappointing loss to Italian Devis Boschiero in May in a fight for the EU title. Nohales was around 2003 5-10-2 but turned his career around with a series of good wins and won the EU crown in 2005.
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