October 30, Rostock, German:
It was “Hurricane” time at packed Town Halle tonight when IBF middleweight champ Sebastian “Hurrikan” Sylvester defended the title against Mahir “Lion” Oral. Sylvester had it tougher than expected early and was cut after an accidental clash of heads but broke through in the fourth and hurt Oral with a right to the head. Mahir didn´t go down but took a bad beating in the remainder of the round. Oral never came back and just wasn´t strong enough to stay with the champion but he was certainly brave enough showing a big heart in defeat. “Lion” was down in the eighth, ninth and eleventh rounds but lasted the distance losing on scores of 117-107, 119-106 and 117-107.
Bulgarian heavy Kubrap Pulev, now 9-0, clearly outscored much more experienced American Dominick Guinn over eight. It was scored 80-72 on two cards and 79-73 on the third. Guinn put up a good fight in the early rounds but settled into the role of survivor halfway through the fight with the talented Pulev pouring it on but he couldn´t to his experienced opponent.
Sauerland´s First Lady, Cecilia Braekhus retained the WBC, WBA and WBO titles with a one-sided seventh round stoppage of inexeperienced Swedish challenger Mikaela Lauren. It was one way traffic, up until the end when Braekhus floored Lauaren with a right upercut-left hook combination for a stoppage 40 seconds into the seventh.
Hardpunching lightheavy Dustin Dirks stopped brave Brit Billy Boyle 24 seconds into the seventh. Boyle made Dirks work hard though and won the early rounds on his workrate with the German covering up.
Tough Pole Mariusz Cendrowski knocked out Thomas Troelenberg 2.04 into the second of a scheduled eight-rounder. Troelenberg, now 21-2, lost the first time as well and is now looking at the end of his career at least with Sauerland.
News:
While not yet officially announced WBO cruiser king Marco Huck will make his mandatory defence December 18 somewhere in Germany against Russian Denis Lebedev. It appears that the champions, Huck, Steve Cunningham and Krzystof Wlodarczyk must make their mandatories before the Super Six cruiser tournament can begin.
What´s next for Russian heavy Alexander Povetkin was the question. -Ask his trainer, was the reply from Sauerland´s promoter Chris Meyer.
WBA standard champ Gennadyi Golovkin won´t get visas for USA and Mexico (work) ready and his planned defence of the title in Mexico City is now planned for Berlin, Germany in December. Opponent is now Nelson Tapia from Panama and not Marco Antonio Rubio. The fight is to be aired by networks in Russia and Kazachstan.
It´s on: WBC female lightweight champ Olivia Gerula will after special permission was granted by the Martial Arts Delegatio defend her title November 27 in Stockholm against Frida Wallberg. The fight is – after special permission from the WBC – scheduled for eight two minute rounds. The event is described by some as historical and gets a lot of media attention in Sweden. Wallberg is the third Swede to fight for a WBC title. George Scott, at his peak a world class performer, fought Stevie Johnston back in 98 and was perhaps not the worthiest of challenger. Paolo Roberto then beat a 3-19 stiff and all of a sudden made giant climb in the ratings, stayed inactive and then climbed into a top 15 rating (at the time necessary to get a WBC title fight) and challenged Javier Castillejo in 99 for the WBC title and got stopped. And now comes Wallberg vs Gerula. Referee for this semi-historical moment will be Mikael
Hook with Mr Female Boxing, Daniel Van De Wiele as one of the judges.
A higher court in Sweden have ´- as a lower court previously did – turned down a request from the Swedish Federation for a change in the current interpretation of the Martial Arts Law and thus allow fights for more than 12 minutes duration. The higher court rules that 12 minutes is what was intended in the law as “acceptable safety for the participants” but that spercial permission – as in Wallberg vs Gerula – can be given. A general permission can not be given though.
Universum won purse bids for EBU heavyweight champ Aleksandre Dimitrenko´s defence against Albert Sosnowksi. A few months back this would have raised few eyebrows and as for when and where it would have been on the next available spot on their big shows with network partner ZDF. As it is now it all seems wideopen.
IBF welter champ Jan Zaveck is in training but have no fights scheduled. -I´m ready to fight anyone at anytime, states Zaveck, who is based in Slovenia but promoted by SES in Germany.
30.10 Results from Rostock and Euro News
