25.01.06: Kenyan featherweight Damaris Muthoni looks forward to returning to Germany next month to continue training with Mario Guedes, the former International German heavyweight champion, in Aachen. “I’m overjoyed,” said Muthoni, who scored two wins back home towards the end of ’05 and now wants to go for a title with a total pro record of 8-3-2 (4 KO’s). Manager Olaf Schroeder hinted at the possibility of a championship bout for Fight Production’s only female boxer in April.

Gotthard Hinteregger, the soon-to-be 39-year-old former IBF & WBO Intercontinental champion from Austria, plays with the idea to return to boxing after loosing his last two fights both in round eleven. Last October, Marco Schulze took Hinteregger’s IBF Intercontinental superwelterweight title and in December, old nemesis Jozsef Matolcsi repeated the trick with the same result for the vacant WBF ‘world’ superwelterweight crown. 

Immediately afterwards, ‘The Cougar’ said “Retirement will be my only option if I come to the conclusion that I can’t improve anymore”, but now manager Olaf Schroeder reports that Hinteregger, now 25-9-1 (13 KO’s), who became Austria’s most successful boxer in more than a decade, called him to talk about getting back in the ring. Schroeder made no secrect that he wants his charge to call it a day and now said “I still believe coming back is not a good idea. We will have to have a good talk about all that soon.”

“Via my managements website, I would like to wish my new PR agent all the best on Saturday – and the knockout victory that I failed to achieve in my last fight!”. In case you wonder, that’s the message from Dutch heavyweight puncher Richel Hersisia, 27-1 (21 KO’s), to WBC ‘world’ supermiddleweight champion Markus Beyer, who risks his title in Berlin against Italian challenger Alberto Colajanni. Beyer owes the marketing company ‘12Rounds’, who have Hersisia as a client since the start of this year.

German cruiserweight Marco Heinichen, 8-12-2 (5 KO’s), who was stopped in his last fight by Enzo Maccarinelli already in the opening round in November of last year, has decided against corrective elbow surgery and vows to be back in the ring soon. After consultations with his doctor and training tests with coach Detlef Kumm, the southpaw journeyman from Berlin declared: “I have no real pain in the arm and I will begin serious training now. Hopefully, I can fight already in February.”

WBF ‘world’ middleweight champion Arsen Khachatrian, 27-1 (12 KO’s), who has a promotional agreement with Fight Production for defences of that title, appears in a 6-rounder against an opponent not yet announced on January 31 in Brescia, Italy. Khachatrian’s French manager Pietro Pozza has agreed a warm-up for a possible up-coming WBF title defence with Italian promoters OPI 2000.