It will reportedly be Argentinian Jonathan Barros that face WBA feather champ Yuriorkis Gamboa in Hamburg, Germany, March 27 – at least if you believe Diaro Los Andes, who quotes Barros as saying he is looking forward to face Cuban and believes he is in with a good a chance of scoring an upset.
Belgian cruiser Geoffrey Batello was doing well going into the tenth and was in a clear lead against Czech Lubos Suda last night in Herstal in their fight for the vacant EU title. Batello was however hurt at the end of the round and didn´t make full recovery during the break. In round eleven Suda knocked out Batello, who was out for ten minutes and had to spend the night in hospital but was released this morning (Feb 21). In the co-headliner bantam Stephane Jamoye knocked out Hamis Ajali in the seventh to retain the WBC Youth title. Jamoye, 16-0, also holds the EU title. On the undercard Bulgarian soon-to-be-a-heavyweight-contender Kubrat Pulev stopped Isossa Mondo in the third.
Ukrainian supermiddle Vitaly Tsypko is now finally ready to go again after a bad injury sustained in the eliminator against Librado Andrade a year ago. Tsypko is promoted by Sauerland Event.
Sauerland´s undercard to Huck vs Richards feature among others Cuban cruiser Yoan Pablo Hernandez, who is in against Carlos Crenz from Argentina and Danish middleweight Patrick Nielsen who face Italian Alessandro Segurini.
They may have done it in 1919 (how professional boxing was back then is still an open question), they did it for sure in 1967 and last night Arctic Pro Box did it again and promoted a show in Lulea, in the far north of Sweden. Debuting heavyweight Jusi Haapala, a local man, lost on a tko to Latvian Pavels Dolgovs while jr middle Cliff Soukka outscored Jurijs Boreiko, who is not as dangerous as he once was but still capable, over four.
Correction: Universum have – contrary to what was hinted in this column - indeed announced a show for April 24 in Hamburg headlined by Susi Kentikian. Not announced though is the appearance of WBO lightheavy champ Juergen Braehmer, who defends the title against Argentinian Mariano Plotinsky.