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28/10/2014 - 22:16:05

 

 

EURO NEWS

By Per-Ake Persson

Slovakian Tamas Kovac, who fought Beibut Shumenov for the WBA title super title in December of last year and was stopped in three, take on Ugandan Hamza Wandera Oct 31 in Trnava (Slovakia) with the WBFed Int’l cruiserweight title at stake. The two fought in 2011 for the WBO European lightheavyweight title and Kovac (24-1) won a close, split decision.
 
Also on the bill is Robert Kanales vs Benjamin Major for the vacant WBFed Int’l flyweight crown and Zita Zatyko and Szilvia Szabados clash for the WBFed female supermiddleweight belt.
 
ProfiBox Promotion, headed by Hungarian heavyweight champ Zoltan Petranyi, promotes this event that was first set for Bielefeld (Germany) October 27 but moved to Trnava at short notice.
 
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EBU superwelter champ "Golden" Jack Culcay (18-1) makes a voluntary defence of the title December 6 in Oldenburg (Germany) against Spanish veteran Ruben Varon (42-8).
 
Culcay vs Varon is the third title fight to Sauerland Event’s final show with ARD as network partner. Already announced is Juergen Braehmer defending the WBA regular lightheavy title against Pawel Glazewski and IBF cruiser king Yoan Pablo Hernandez taking on Ola Afolabi.
 
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German supermiddle Juergen "Dobermann" Doberstein (16-1-1) take on Frenchman Hugo Kasperski (23-5-1) for the vacant IBF Mediterranean title November 22 in Saarbruecken. Doberstein was previously promoted by DOG Boxing & Event but is now self promoted and this is Doberstein Promotion´s first show. Training Juergen is Manfred Wolke, the man behind Henry Maske and Axel Schulz and formerly with Sauerland Event.
 
On the undercard heavyweight Yakub Saglam (32-3) take on Hungarian Andres Csomor (10-3-1) and cruiserweight Dennis Ronert (21-0) face Laszlo Hubert (39-14).
 
Per-Åke Persson