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20/11/2015 - 08:43:50
EURO NEWSBy Per-Ake Persson TK Sportevent and Promotion, headed by Thomas Kappen, stage an
 interesting show in at the Maritime Hotel in Cologne November 21. It's headlined by undefeated welter Deniz Ilbay (pictured), 14-0, who defends the IBF Youth title against Hungarian Attila Koros (7-2-1). In the chief support Arijan Sherifi (8-0) square off against Andras Toth (4-3). The undercard features Belgian martial arts stat Marc De Bonte (6-1) and comebacking lightheavy Dustin Dirks (27-2-1).
Adviser for the team is no other than German alltime great Henry Maske and TK have their events supervised by the Luxembourg Federation, a non EBU member.
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Sauerland Event have just announced in a German press release that Tyron Zeuge suffers from a bad case of the flu and his fight on Saturday against Eduard Gutknecht is off.
Zeuge (17-0) vs Gutknecht (28-3-1) was scheduled for 12 with the IBF Int'l and WBO I/C supermiddle titles at stake.
The show goes ahead with Arthur Abraham defending the WBO supermiddle title against Martin Murray in the mainevent.
Zeuge pulled out of a fight against Gutknecht in September as well – that time due to a minor injury after a traffic accident.
Arman Torosyan steps in as a very late substitute.
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Following the terrible terrorist attacks in Paris last weekend promoter Malamine Koné has cancelled the big show set for November 21 billed as "Apocalypse 2" at the Palais des Sports Marcel Cerdan in Levallois Perret. It was easily the biggest professional boxing event in France in 2015 and featured in the main events former WBO middleweight champ Hassan N'Dam vs Avantandil Khurtside in an eliminator for IBF # 2 spot, Cedric Vitu defending the EBU superwelter title against Roberto Santos and Mehdi Amar vs Hakim Zoulikha for the EU title as well as several interesting fights at national level.
Per-Åke Persson
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