Spanish fly Ivan Pozo have given up the EBU title due to problems making the weight. Pozo won the title with a controversial decision over Frenchman Christophe Rodriguez late last year. A rematch was ordered and all set for May 8 but was then pushed back to May 22 and is now off. It´s likely that Italian veteran and former champ Andrea Sarritzu will fight Rodriguez for the vacant belt.
“Gazet van Antwerpen” writes that Turkish welter Selcuk Aydin and Belgian Jackson Osei Bonsu could meet in a final WBC eliminator July 11 in Istanbul, Turkey, on a Arena Box Promotion show. The vacant EBU title could also be at stake.
It´s confirmed and official: middleweights Domenico Spada and Sebastian Zbik clash for the WBC Interim title in Oberhausen on a Universum show June 6. In the headliner EBU lightheavy king Juergen Braehmer face Italian Antonio Brancalion.
SES have found an opponent for supermiddle Robert Stieglitz and he will now fight Czech Jindrick Velecky May 15 in Magdeburg on the undercard to Botha vs Hoffmann.
Arena have added the Dancing Destroyer, Herbie Hide, to its big show June 26 in Volklingen. Hide will defend the WBC Int´l cruiser title and is then said to go directly to a fight againste the winner of WBC champ Giacomo Fragomeni vs challenger Krzysztof Wlodarczyk May 15 in Rome. No word on the once postponed eliminator against Matt Godfrey.
French lightweight Daouda Sow, a silver medal winner in Beijing, have turned pro with still active ex-WBA jr feather champ Mayhar Monshipour.
IBF lightweight champ Fernando Angulo defends the title against Belorus Yuri Romanov July 11 in Sunrise, Florida, writes notifight.com.
Former EBU heavy champ Paolo Vidoz is at best semi-retired despite talks of quitting the game and will return in a few months.
Steel Ring in Finland have cancelled their planned show in May and there will now be a long summerbreak. Promoter Markku Pirinen says Steel Ring have struggled for some time now and are trying to estimate what kind of shows they can produce in the future with no TV and shrinking crowds.
Congolese supermiddle and lightheavy Mukadi Manda Sa Majeste, for years a TWBA champ, fighting out of Barcelona, Spain, and a decent journeyman away from home have retired and is now back in Kinshasa where he will promote proboxing.
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