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| Nasir Dominates Pojonisevs! | ||||
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25.6.2009:
Danish super middleweight Fawaz Nasir made a successful
return to the ring on Friday June 19, after almost a year out with
injuries, when he dominated Latvian Ruslans Pojonisevs in
Horsens, Denmark.
The fight, on the undercard of Kim Poulsen vs. Obote Ameme, was aired live on TV2 Sport in Denmark, and promoted by Henrik Risum who handles Nasir in cooperation with Fight Production.
Nasir came out strong and controlled the aggressive Pojonisevs
with his jab, and mixing it up nicely with hard body-shots and straight
right hands... |
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| Knesevic Back With (Too) Easy Win! | ||||
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22.6.2009:
Fight Production’s International Austrian & Serbian superwelterweight
champion Gojko ‚Gogi’ Knezevic got back to winning ways last
Saturday (June 20), but when all was said and done – and that was the
case in less than three minutes – it was all rather too easy.
The 29-year-old from Vienna was involved in a punishing battle last
April when trying to win the WBC Mediterranean title, which ended with a
spectacular 11th round knockout defeat, and now had his first
outing since when he appeared on a promotion in Belgrade, Serbia in a
scheduled 6-rounder against Hungarian Zoltan Borovics...
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| Willi Fischer Speaks! | ||||
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12.6.2009:
Ring success makes people listen up – and it smoothes the boxer to the
point that he likes to give interviews again. With that in mind, Fight
Production’s heavyweight star Willi Fischer, fresh of another win
on the past weekend, happily sat down with German writer Frank
Bleydorn and answered his questions. Fischer, 37-6-1 (24 KO’s),
started a serious comeback in 2007 after teaming up with manager Olaf
Schroeder and – true to his past – battled through a multitude of
problems, namely cuts, injuries and cancellations. But he never lost
sight of his goal and now stands on the threshold of his first title
fight since five years. Read on what the fighter called ‘De Ox’ has to
say...
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8.6.2009:
Putting the potentially career-threatning injury problems, which
forced the cancellation of a March challenge to German champion
Sebastian Köber, firmly behind him, Fight Production’s heavyweight star
Willi ‘De Ox’ Fischer dazzled the 1.400-strong audience last
night (June 6) at Neuwied’s Ice Hall, taking apart countryman Werner
Kreiskott in four one-sided rounds. The official result went down as
a TKO 5, when a dispirited Kreiskott elected to not come out for the
fifth round. With the win, Fischer raised his record to 37-6-1 (24 KO’s)
and in fact has not lost in almost five years now. The clash headlined a
nine-fight bill presented by Punchup Boxing, the company of semi-retired
heavyweight Turhan Altunkaya... |
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| Nasir Comes Back Tough! | ||||
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26.5.2009:
Danish super middleweight Fawaz Nasir (13-3, 8 KOs) will
face Latvian puncher Ruslans “Rugby” Pojonisevs (5-3-1, 4 KOs) on
June 19 in Horsens, Denmark. The fight will be promoted by Risum Boxing
in cooperation with Brian Mathiasen Boxing, and is headlined by Kim
Poulsen vs. Obote Ameme for the UBO Intercontinental lightweight title.
Pojonisevs is a European and two-time world kickboxing champion, and is
coming off a first-round knockout victory in his latest conventional
boxing bout. One of his three losses as a professional boxer was on an
injury, and one was against Swedish amateur standout Cliff Souka, so the
26-year-old from Riga is not used to loosing much... |
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| The Ox Attacks Anew! | ||||
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20.5.2009:
“Willi has been responding much better than expected to the physio
therapy – we are ready to go again!”, announced Tom Leidenheimer,
trainer of Fight Production’s Frankfurt heavyweight Willi ‘De Ox’
Fischer, 36-6-1 (23 KO’s), much to the relief of everyone in the
team of the former WBO title challenger.
Fischer was forced to cancel a challenge to undefeated German champion
Sebastian Köber last March due to a shoulder injury suffered in his
Polish training camp. Now manager Olaf Schroeder has arranged for the
36-year-old to have a testing-water outing on Saturday, June 6 as the
feature attraction on a show at the Ice Hall in Neuwied, Germany over 6
rounds... |
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| Nasir To Return In June! | ||||
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11.5.2009:
Danish super middleweight Fawaz Nasir (13-3, 8 KOs) will
return to the ring on June 19 in Horsens, Denmark, after a long injury
lay-off. He has since undergone rehabilitation training, and is now fit
to resume his career.
Nasir last boxed in July of last year, when he was retired by
his corner due to a torn shoulder ligament in round five of a fight
against current WBC International champion and world-ranked Robert
Stieglitz...
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| Fischer's Future Still Uncertain! | ||||
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21.4.2009:
The future of German heavyweight comebacker Willi ‘De Ox’
Fischer is still up in the air after injury forced him to pull out
of a match against German (interim) champion Sebastian Köber, which
should have happened five weeks ago.
“We
have just started training again and Willi is tremendously motivated to
still get at Köber, but there is still pain in his neck, shoulder and
arm and we must simply take it step-by-step, day-by-day,” reports
trainer Tom Leidenheimer from their Frankfurt gym...
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| Lion-Hearted Gogi Keeps Head (And Hopes) High! | ||||
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6.4.2009:
He fought like a lion, but still came up short.
That is the summary of Gojko Knezevic’ challenge for the WBC
Mediterranean superwelterweight championship last Saturday (Apr. 4) in
the French city of Rosny Sur Seine, Yvelines, near Paris.
The International Austrian & Serbian superwelterweight champion had to
conceed the vacant title to local hero Cedric Vitu when Dutch referee
Robert Verwijs stopped the fight in the penultimate round after Knezevic
was knocked down for the second time...
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| Knezevic Vies For WBC Honours! | ||||
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2.4.2009:
Huge opportunity for Fight Production’s 29-year-old Gojko Knezevic:
Austria’s number one superwelterweight contests the vacant WBC
Mediterranean title on April 4 in the French city of Yvelines against
local favourite Cedric Vitu.
The
Johann Senfter-trained Knezevic, who left the ring victorious 13 times
in 15 starts (one draw), won the International
Austrian championship at superwelter last year and views himself more
than just an underdog. “The training went fine and we
are absolutely prepared to win this 12-rounder,” Senfter reported...
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| Slugfest As Khurtsidze Retains Title Against Kovacs! | ||||
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1.4.2009:
On
Saturday, March 28, in the Ukrainian city of Cherkassy, K2 East
Promotions, the promotional company of the Klitschko brothers, carried
out a big professional boxing tournament which got the name “Tornado 2“.
In the
main event WBA Intercontinental middleweight champion Avtandil
Khurtsidze, 18-1-2 (11 KO’s), a Ukraine-based Georgian, faced very
strong opposition, fighting Fight Production’s Hungarian Attila ‘Viper’
Kovacs, 25-3 (17 КО’s)...
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| Fight Production Terminates Hersisia Contract! | ||||
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19.3.2009:
Olaf Schroeder of German management agency Fight Production
today informed that his company has timely terminated its managerial
contract with Dutch heavyweight champion Richel Hersisia, which
now runs out in October this year. With this ends a relationship that lasted almost a decade, starting with Hersisia’s pro debut in 2001. Thus far, the fighter compiled an impressive record of 30 wins (24 KO’s) from 33 fights with just three losses.
In the
course of his career, the now 34 year old fighter from Den Haag won a
slew of professional titles... |
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| Title Shots For Kovacs And Knezevic! | ||||
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17.3.2009:
There are big chances looming on the horizon in the form of
title shots over the next few weeks for Fight Production’s Attila
‘The Viper’ Kovacs and Gojko ‘Gogi’ Knezevic, although both
the Hungarian and the Austria have to travel abroad for the opportunity.
First,
the 34-year-old former IBO ‘world’ superwelterweight champion Kovacs
(Pictured!) from Györ clashes with Georgia’s Avtandil Khurtsidze for
the WBA Intercontinental middleweight championship on March 28 in
Cherkasy, Ukraine. Khurtsidze, 10 years Kovacs’ junior, has a record of
17-1-2 (11 KO’s) and holds a WBA # 8 world rating, which makes him a
rewarding target... |
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| Fischer Drama: Injury Forces Pull-Out Against Köber! | ||||
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10.3.2009:
Heavyweight Willi “De Ox” Fischer’s German heavyweight
title challenge against Sebastian Köber, set for Friday next week (Mar.
20) in Hamburg, is off! That was the shocking news the Frankfurt boxer’s
manager Olaf Schroeder had to submit to promoters Spotlight today, after
Fischer was left in pains at the end of a sparring session by a
squeezed-in nerv in the right shoulder yesterday.
The former WBO heavyweight title challenger was in camp in
Warsaw, Poland, working towards his fight with undefeated Köber, which
should have been a major step in Fischer’s so far successful comeback...
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| Knezevic Roams Rowards Title Fight! | ||||
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9.3.2009:
Making his debut for new management Fight Production,
Gojko Knezevic last
night left no doubt about his intentions and motivation, ruthlessly
brushing aside Hungarian journeyman Gabor Balogh inside just two rounds
in Vienna, Austria.
"Sure, Balogh wasn't much, but he's experienced and more often than not goes the rounds," said a happy manager Olaf Schroeder, and confirmed that the plan is for Knezevic to go straight for a title next.
Suitably for Balogh, the match - promoted by Knezevic' trainer Johann
Senfter as the headliner of an otherwise amateur show - was made at
middleweight... |
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| No Distractions: Fischer Trains In Poland! | ||||
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2.3.2009:
Ex-WBO heavyweight title challenger Willi “De Ox” Fischer
has today left hometown Frankfurt to finalize preparations for his most
important fight for years in Poland’s capital Warsaw. On March 20,
Fischer is set to challenge undefeated German champion Sebastian Köber
in Hamburg in a classic youngs vs old confrontation.
“Willi has mentally stabilized beyond words and to train in Warsaw means
to avoid all other distractions during the crucial last three weeks
before the fight,” explains manager Olaf Schroeder. In Poland, Fischer
will work with Andrzej Wawrzyk, Tomasz Bonin and former IBF
cruiserweight champion Krzysztof Wlodarczyk, amongst others... |
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| An Odd Team For Sure: Knezevic Signs For F.P.! | ||||
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3.2.2009:
It probably constitutes the most odd signing made by Fight Production,
but that doesn’t automatically mean it can’t work. In fact,
International Austrian and Serbian superwelterweight champion Gojko
‘Gogi’ Knezevic has high hopes that him, trainer Johann Senfter and
German manager Olaf Schroeder can be a successful team.The pair of
Knezevic and Schroeder became acquainted under rather hostile
circumstances two and a half years ago, when the now 29-year-old
challenged another Fight Production boxer, the semi-retired veteran
Gotthard Hinteregger, for the Austrian title. After a pre-fight battle
of threats and worse, Hinteregger kept his title via fourth round TKO
after Knezevic retired – but the poisonous arrows kept flying in both
directions. A rematch was discussed, but never happened... |
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| Fischer To Challenge Köber! | ||||
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30.1.2009:
Spotlight Boxing today announced that fans can look forward to another
interesting duel on Friday, March 20, when unbeaten Spotlight
heavyweight Sebastian Koeber defends his German (interim) title against
Fight Production's experience
Willi "De Ox" Fischer of Frankfurt.
Köber recently won the championship in a Spotlight internal box-off
against Dieter Roth in Halle/Saale with a knockout in the dying seconds
of the fight. Fischer is a professional since 1995 and scored 36 wins
(23 KO's) in 43 fights with one draw. In his only 'world' title shot so
far, Fischer lost against the british WBO heavyweight champion Herbie
Hide in 1998 in England... |
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| Surprise Win For "Viper" Kovacs! | ||||
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13.1.2009:
Hungarian superwelterweight Attila Kovacs leisurely
strolled into Budapest’s Gilda Max Gym last night (Jan. 12), looking for
a light workout to keep in shape for bigger things. He ended up in a
real ring and picked up a real, albeit easy, win when promoter Zoltan
Petranyi asked him to fill in and face career-trialhorse Gabor Balogh!
Petranyi, of Profibox Promotion, had planned for one of his upcoming
fighters to make his debut, only for the boxer to come down sick just
two hours before his scheduled fight!
“Attila is always in shape, plus we needed a win soon anyway,”
reasoned German manager Olaf Schroeder, whose company Fight Production
manages the classy Kovacs... |
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| Fischer Bangs His Way Back Into Contention! | ||||
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14.12.2008:
Frankfurt heavyweight Willi Fischer made a clear statement to all
heavyweights in Germany, banging out Latvian champion Edgar Kalnars in
the fourth round with a big right hand on the big Klitschko vs Rahman
show in Mannheim, Germany on Saturday (Dec. 13). The 36-year-old’s
comeback now seems to take up speed, as Fischer succeeded where unbeaten
prospects Sebastian Köber (now the new interim German champion), Dieter
Roth (who lost for that title against Köber) and Manuel Charr all
failed: Stopping the 31-year-old Kalnars from Riga in Latvia.
The night began with a minor nightmare, as no gloves could be found
fitting to the huge hands of the popular Fischer, who once fought for
the WBO ‘world’ heavyweight title... |
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| Arena-Free Fischer Ready To Be "The Ox" Again! | ||||
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4.12.2008:
The decision by Hamburg-based Arena Box-Promotion to pull out of
a promotional agreement for a fight against Steffen Kretzschmann has
done nothing but spur on a positive-minded Willi ‘The Ox’ Fischer
as he prepares to continue his comeback on the Klitschko vs Rahman
undercard, Dec. 13 in Mannheim, Germany. The 36-year-old Fischer, 35-6-1
(22 KO’s), will face off with Latvian champion Edgar Kalnars, 18-15 (9
KO’s), over eight scheduled rounds and seems primed for a TV slot on
televising channel RTL, depending on how the ‘world’ heavyweight title
fight is going.
Earlier, Arena Box-Promotion had informed Fischer’s manager Olaf
Schroeder of Fight Production that it wishes to pull out of a contract
which guaranteed the Frankfurt heavyweight a... |
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| Fischer Spars Bowe, Fights On Klitschko Undercard! | ||||
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13.11.2008:
Manager Olaf Schroeder today officially confirmed reports by HR
television that Fight Production’s only current German boxer,
comebacking heavyweight Willi ‘De Ox’ Fischer, will finally take
the next step with an appearance on the Klitschko vs Rahman ‘world’
heavyweight title undercard on December 13. Fischer, 35-6-1 (22 KO’s)
and from Frankfurt, will bring many of his fans to near-by Mannheim,
where K2 (the Klitschko brothers promotional company) stage the show at
the SAP-Arena.
While the opponent, whom Fight Production expects to announce
later this week, should be a test (“We can only keep Willi interested
when he feels the opponent poses some threat,” says trainer Tom
Leidenheimer)... |
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| Williams Disaster Shocks All Of Egypt! | ||||
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10.11.2008:
As is the case more often than not with fighters, Danny
Williams has little explanation for what happened to him on
Saturday night at Bethnal Green’s (London) York Hall. In what he
regarded as a warm-up fight, the British heavyweight boss
inexplicable got floored and stopped in eight rounds by Poland’s
Albert Sosnowski – and down the drain went a fight that Williams
“was so exited about”, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fight
right next to the Gizeh pyramids in Egypt on November 30 against
Francois Botha for the WBF ‘world’ heavyweight crown. Fight
Production, who were to stage the Egypt extravaganza in
cooperation with Louaa Boxing Promotions, disappointingly called
the whole event off today... |
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| Age No Barrier To Crazyness From Hinteregger! | ||||
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22.10.2008:
His voice sounded like that of some early-40ies gentleman returning home
from a late-summer stroll in the park, just that the words in use made
the difference.
“Oh, it was just marvellous to step into that ring and smell the odor of a prizefight again,” sighted seemingly ageless Austrian superwelterweight champion Gotthard ‘The Cougar’ Hinteregger after winning a clear 6-round decision over Hungarian Gabor Balogh on a mixed show in Voesendorf, Austria last Sunday (October 19).
It was the 41-year-old Hinteregger’s first outing since a win last
December and lifted his professional record to 31-14-1 (15 KO’s)... |
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| Francois Botha: "I Come To Fight!" | ||||
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14.10.2008:
Its hardly a boxing hotbed but on November 30 Egypt hosts its very own
‘world’ title fight when Fight Production and Louaa Boxing stage Danny
Williams clash with South Africa’s ‘White Buffalo’ Francois Botha for
the vacant WBF heavyweight championship.
The fight takes place in a specially erected arena next to the ‘Great Pyramids’ and a specially designed high-tech lighting display will illuminate the Egyptian monuments to provide a magical backdrop for the ‘Duel in the Desert’.
British writer Graham Pearman caught up with one of the
co-challengers, Frans Botha, who gave his thoughts on the fight and also
how he sees the state of the current heavyweight division which he
describes as a “shambles”. |
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| Kovacs, Hinteregger, Ibramov, Hersisia... | ||||
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13.10.2008:
Hungary’s former IBO ‘world’ champion Attila Kovacs took a huge gamble
by venturing to Russia to face Gennady Martirosyan in a 10-round
middleweight clash on Oct. 4 – and was forced to pay the price for his
audacity when he lost on points. It was only Kovacs’ second career loss
and the first in almost six years, but it did nothing to dispirit the
34-year-old:
“I’m not sad or anything, I still know what I can do and I’m ready to go back into the ring anytime!”.
Zoltan
Petranyi, the Hungarian heavyweight champion who also promotes and
manages, accompanied Team Kovacs to Vyborg, Russia as representative for
Fight Production and reports of the fight... |
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| Williams vs. Botha: Walk Like An Egyptian! | ||||
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20.9.2008:
The
ancient Egyptian town of Giza and the Great Pyramids will be the setting
for the vacant World Boxing Foundation (WBF) heavyweight title clash
between Britain’s Danny Williams and South Africa’s former IBF
champion Francois Botha on November 30.
Details of the fight were announced confirmed by Fight Production boss
Olaf Schroeder who along with Richard Nwoba and Louaa Boxing Promotions
will stage the bout in a specially erected open-air
amphitheatre right
at the foot of the pyramids and the Great Sphinx. It will provide a
magical backdrop for the heavyweight clash which will go down in history
as the first prizefight ever to take place at the Middle Eastern site... |
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| Kovacs Sets Out To Prove He Is World Class! | ||||
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18.9.2008:
Shunned by the European Boxing Union (EBU) (READ
HERE),
despite being considered a top-ranked superwelterweight by all
independent computer ratings, Hungarian class-act
Attila ‘The Viper’ Kovacs,
24-1 (17 KO’s),
has now set out to prove he’s world class when he dares to face
Armenian Gennady Martirosyan,
13-1 (4 KO’s), in the unfriendly confines of Vyborg, Russia on October
4.
Martirosyan lives in near-by St. Petersburg and just like with Kovacs,
his sole professional loss came so early in his career, that it can be
considered meaningless by now. Kovacs, in fact, is unbeaten in six
years... |
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| Mercer W6 Hersisia - What The Media Wrote! | ||||
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Ray Mercer pulled off an upset
8.9.2008:
Ray
Mercer shouldn’t be fighting at the age of 47. It should be over, and it
is, there aren’t any skills left at that age. We could clearly see it in
Karlstad but how Richel Hersisia from Holland, 13 years younger, with a
glossy record 30-3, 24 KO’s, could manage to get himself into the wrong
fight with the former champ, and sink down to the lowest of low to lose
on points after six rounds to this former great was a bit of a mystery.
Not to take anything away from Ray, he did what he could but Hersisia
should have been able to handle Mercer at this stage of his career, but
clearly he couldn’t, where does he go from here I wonder?
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| Richel Back To Rocky II For Fine-Tuning! | ||||
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25.8.2008:
Since
the last week, Dutch heavyweight banger
Richel Hersisia has
started the fine tuning for his main event clash with ex-WBO champ
“Merciless” Ray Mercer,
35-7-1 (26 KO’s),
on Pugnus Promotion’s big Karlstad, Sweden bill on September 5
by re-joining trainer Ralf Rocchigiani (himself a former WBO champ, but
at cruiser) in Berlin.
Hersisia, 30-2 (24 KO’s), had started out camp in Duisburg, Germany with
Ralf’s younger brother, and fellow ex-‘world’ champion, Graciano
Rocchigiani, but wanted to spend the last three weeks with Ralf – called
Rocky II in the German media, because he won his ‘world’ title after
Graciano – in Berlin...
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| Kovacs Takes It Out On Poor Glofak! | ||||
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20.8.2008:
Undisturbed by the recent
discussions about the EBU’s unfair exclusion of superwelterweight
Attila Kovacs,
the Hungarian scored an easy marking-time win last night, halting
hometown journeyman Anton Glofak in three rounds on a LP Promotion show
in Sturovo, Slovakia. Kovacs, in improving his record to 24-1 (17 KO’s),
took it easy in the first round and was maybe a bit too playful, but put
the foot on the gas and duely floored Glofak twice in round two.
After the third knockdown in the next round, Hungarian referee Miklos
Döry terminated what essentially was a mismatch. “Yeah, I could’ve
possibly finish it earlier,” the 34-year-old Kovacs confessed
afterwards, “but I wanted to try a few things in there and was actually
enjoying myself.”
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| "Augustin And His EBU Can Kiss My Backside!" | ||||
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12.8.2008:
After the release of the latest set of ratings by the European Boxing
Union (EBU), manager Olaf Schroeder severely hit out against the
treatment of his Fight Production’s boxers by EBU Ratings Chairman
Pertti Augustin of Finland and said that he does not wish any of his
boxers to be rated by the EBU in the future.
“If a boxer can’t accept that, then I am sorry I can not manage him, but
the scandalous policy that a corrupt person like Mr. Augustin practises
and the way he misuses the EBU as a tool to battle his personal
frustrations against me is something I simply want to rid myself of,”
said Schroeder, “I had hoped that (EBU president) Bob Logist would clean
up his house, but he seems to be happy to have... |
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