EUROPEAN BOXING NEWS
Posted on | September 17, 2008 | No Comments
Polish welter Rafael Jackiewicz, 32-8-1, beat defending EBU champion Jackson Osei Bonsu, 28-2, last night in Kielce with a unanimous decision in a major upset. The judges had it 116-112, 114-113 and 117-110. It was a major setback for Jackson, who was close to a WBC eliminator or a world titlefight. For Jackiewicz, who proposed to his girlfirend after the decision had been announced, it was the biggest win of his career. Jackson was expected to relinquish the title after beating Jackiewicz to concentrate on a big fight at home in Antwerp November 11 but did have his mandatory defence against Jan Zaveck scheduled for October 10 in Slovenia. That date will probably not stick but the new champion probably won´t get a long rest. Waiting for his chance is Ukrainan Vyacheslav Senchenko, whose management had expected a fight against Zaveck for the vacant title.
The fight for the vacant EBU heavyweight title between Italian Paolo Vidoz and Britt Matt Skelton have December 16 as working date and might go ahead near Gorizia where Vidoz resides.
Instead of Riddick Bowe Hungarian heavyweight Zoltan Petranyi wound up fighting Mihaly Nemeth for the vacant national title September 12 in six. Last year in Denmark the Danish Federation nixed Petranyi-Nemeth as too weak a matchup and only allowed the two a four-round exhibition.
In Reisjarvi, Finland, September 12 jr welter Jaakko Myllyla moved to 6-0 with a second round stoppage of Frenchman Mourad Sabry El Malki.
41-year old German Mayala Mbungi have plugged away since 2003 taking on all comers at 4-6 round level fighting mainly around supermiddle and going into the bout against Steve Klockow Saturday night in Berlin he was 0-20-4. But that “0” is gone as Mayala beat Klockow.
Ex-champ, WBC, WBA and EBU, Javier Castillejo is back in training and looking to resume his career. Castillejo suffered a bad ko-loss to Sebastian Sylvester last time out in a EBU titlefight and lost his status as WBA # 1 challenger as well.
Universum have announced that heavyweights Luan Krasniqi and Aleksander Dimitrenko fight November 15 at the Burg-Waechter Castello in Düsseldorf making it a “Golden November” with Felix Sturm vs Sebastian Sylvester scheduled for November 1 in Oberhausen and Hugo Hernan Garay vs Jurgen Brahmer set for November 22 in Rostock. Especially Sturm vs Sylvester stand out. Krasniqi and Dimitrenko in a WBO I/C titlefight is an internal eliminator where Dimitrenko got a lot to lose but needs to impress to continue a further climb up the ladder. For Luan it´s his last chance simple as that.
However, Bild Zeitung reveals today that Brahmer´s participation in this might be uncertain as a prosecutor in Schwerin are investigating not just one but two cases involving Brahmer in claimed assault affairs. In the first case the victim withdrew the charge but the prosecutor insisted on letting the case run as he viewed it had “general interest”. The second affair involves the girlfriend of the other victim. In both cases Brahmer are claimed to have slapped or hit them, both times in bars and at least the first time under the influence of alcohol. As both incidents took place while Jurgen was still under probation (ending Sep 15) both cases are even more serious for the fighter. There are no official word form Universum yet.
K 2 won the purse bids to stage Wladimir Klitschko vs Alexander Povetkin with an offer for 13.130.130 USD. K 2 have December 13 in Halle / Westfalen as working date with RTL televising in Germany – the very same date as Sauerland and their network ARD have planned for Nikolai Valuev´s first defence of the WBA title.
The Swedish Federation have written the EBU in regards of Maria Lindberg, who as previously reported, was licensed by the BDB in Germany. SBF in Sweden argues that in the AIBA regulations it´s clearly stated that a boxer that has suffered a cerebral haemorrage never shall box again in view of what is called a second impact. It´s a good argument: proboxing is a lot more dangerous than amateur boxing. It will be interesting to see how the EBU and the BDB reacts. Another thing is that a suspension in one country is according to an agreement within the members of the EBU to be honored.
WBA supermiddle champ Mikkel Kessler writes on his website mikkelkessler.com that he is in full training for his upcoming defence against Danilo Haussler October 25 in Duesseldorf. Sparring will begin September 22,