8.1.07: 12rounds, the marketing company of former three-time WBC supermiddleweight champion Markus Beyer, has now published a portfolio of ringside pictures of heavyweight Richel Hersisia’s smashing knockout of Brazilian Adenilson Rodrigues last year on their client’s website www.hersisia.com. The photos are courtesy of Marianne Mueller, probably the most prolific boxing action photographer in Germany, where the Universum-promoted contest of the Dutch KO artist took place.

After taking a deserved rest over Christmas and New Year, the 32-year-old ‘Dutch Sonny Liston’ is now eager to return to his German trainer Torsten Schmitz. “Whatever happens, I will go to Berlin later this month to continue working with Torsten. (Manager) Olaf (Schroeder of Fight Production) told me he will soon have a date from Universum and I plan on making 2007 a big year,” said Hersisia from his home in The Hague.

In the meantime it emerged that Universum Box-Promotion had offered Hersisia a shot at European heavyweight king Vladimir Virchis for December 2, but Schroeder confirmed that he declined: “For Rodrigues, Richel prepared seven weeks, so obviously wanted to see his home for at least a week afterwards. That would have left him with just four weeks to get ready for the most important fight of his career. I don’t want to put Richel into such fights just for the money, because I know he has a real shot when fully prepared. But I must state that Universum has been absolutely great, they accepted our position, and we have actually had talks already about prolonging our cooperation with Richel. I think they slowly start to realize that Richel is for real, but of course he ultimately has to prove this in the ring.”