WBA, let me see, interim middleweight champ Hassan N´Dam will defend his portion of the title April 2 in against Giovanni Lorenzo in Le Cannet, France. The show is promoted by Sebastien Acaries and his ASVenture Promotion. In the chief support Ali Hallab defends the French superbantam title against Amor Belhadj Ali.
The Bigger is Better Tournament plans for a busy 2011. Televised throughout Europe on EuroSport BIB features proboxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, MMA and you name it in one weight division beginning from lightheavy and upwards in fights over three three-minute rounds with professional boxing rules. As for a supervising body the shows that this far have gotten of the ground have been what you might call unlicensed. February 25 BIB are in Bulgaria where Croatian cruiser Ivica Bacurin and Ukrainain heavy Maksim Perdiyuk appears to be sole participants with a boxing background. April 15 BIB will come to Aarhus, Denmark and there´s more coming until the finals in November in 2011.
Lightheavy Denis Simcic defends the WBF Int´l title against Sandro Siproshvili in the chief support to Zaveck vs Delgado February 18 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Czech Lubos Suda have been stripped of the EU title for failure to go through with his mandatory defence against Zakaria Azzaoui. Suda was simply not happy with the purse and in effect gave up the title. Azzaoui will now face German champ Serdar Sahin for the vacant title with February 22 as deadline for purse bids or agreement.
Finnish heavy Robert Helenius and his father Kalle were pretty upset after reading Lamont Brewster´s statement that Robert had fought with tampered gloves when he stopped Brewster in Neubrandenburg last year. Kalle Helenius states he has the gloves at home ready for inspection anytime. Chris Meyer of Sauerland says that Brewster and his team had every opportunity to check the gloves of his opponent before the fight. Helenius, 14-0, will fight against April 2 and it´s rumored to be against a “name” opponent and not against Yakup Saglam as was previously planned.
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