WBA middle champ Felix Sturm insists in an interview with Bild Zeitung his days with Universum are over and have along with this manager Roland Bebak formed a company called Plus-One-Promotion and will get into promoting his own shows and build his own stable of fighters. As to why he´s leaving Universum he sites the conflict of interest when Klaus Peter Kohl is both promoter and manager. According to Sturm´s legal representatve his contract have expired while Universum claims it is still in effect with options.
The undercard to the Polish megafight between Tomasz Adamek and Andrew Golota October 24 in Lodz feature more all Polish matchups as lightheavy Dawid Kostecki take on Grzegorz Soszynski, Cruiser Artur Szpilka face veteran Wojiciech Bartnik. Lukas Janik is in against Mateusz Masternak also at cruiser and jr middle Damian Jonak fight Mariusz Cendrowski.
The Swiss Federation have won a court case in regards of their max age rule for professional boxers where 35 is the limit. The court recognized that lengthy careers may have a negative long term effect on the health and turned the law suit from Max Gusset, from Switzerland but licensed elsewhere, down. For those who wonder how come Evander Holyfield could fight on Swiss soil last year as he did against Nikolai Valuev the answer is that it was the Austrian Federation that supervised that show.
Former EBU supermiddle champ Jackson Chanet, 28-2, will come back after three years out November 7 in Sedan and take on Andrei Zaitsev. Chanet represented France at heavyweight in the Olympics 2000 but as a pro he gradually dropped down in weight until he almost made middleweight. He settled at supermiddle and became EBU champ in 05. Early 06 he suffered a bad knockout loss at the hands of Russian Mger Mkrtchian and after a another loss this time to Devi Gogiya he announced his retirement in January of 2007. The comeback will be at cruiser. Jackson is the son of former EBU heavyweight champ Jean Chanet.
Finnish heavyweight champ Juho Haapoja defends the title against Jarno Rosberg in a hot domestic showdown November 27 in Tampere.
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