SES show “Night of the Heavyweights” is now completed with a four man tournament where 5-0 prospect Tom Schwarsz stands out. The other three participants are Andre Bunga, Lukas Filka and Ante Veronica. Offthe bill is German champ Michael Wallish, who is sidelined with an injury. Headlining is Francesco Pianeta, who is in against Mickael Vieira with the vacant WBO European title at stake.
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Queensberry Promotion will stage Leonard Bundu´s defence of the EBU welterweight title against Frankie Gavin will go ahead August 1 in Wolverhampton.
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Karsten Rower, who trains WBA regular lightheavy champ Juergen Braehmer, dreams of having four German world champ come 2016. Rower also trains Sauerland Event´s trio of prospects Enrico Koelling, Tyron Zeuge and newcomer Stefan Hartel. Rower also trains current EU lightheavy champErik Skoglund.
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18-year old supermiddle prospect Vincent Feigenbutz will fight on Sauerland´s show June 7 in Schwerin and there are talks of cotinued collaboration between Sauerland and Feigenbutz´s promoter Faecher Sports management headed by Rainer Gottwald.
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Polish boxing hero Zbignew Pietrzykowski has passed away at the age of 79. Pietrzykowski won a silver in the Rome Olympics, and bronze in Melbourne 56 and Tokyo 64. In 1956, fighting at lightmiddle Zbignewlost to Hungarian legend Laszlo Papp and in Rome he lost in the finals to a young American named Cassius Clay. Pietrzykowski was for many years outstanding in Europe and won four European championships in three different weight divisions. He became Polish champ eleven (11) times. Pietrzykowski never turned pro.
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