| Fischer Win Draws
A Full House! |
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17.2.2008:
Fight Production,
the company of German manager Olaf Schroeder, seems to play
unexpected cards these days with its heavyweight stars. While
the ‘Dutch Sonny Liston’ Richel Hersisia from The Hague has not
been in a home-country ring since 2005 and has shifted his
training base to Germany, German heavyweight
Willi Fischer
headlined last night a small pro/am show in Nieuwegein, The
Netherlands – and it worked! Schroeder, who co-promoted with Wim
Koelewijn of Coolgym and welcomed another former Fight
Production heavyweight, Dutchman Fred Westgeest, happily
acknowledged a 300-sold-out crowd. |
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In the main event, Fischer – one of five Germans to fight for
(versions of) the world heavyweight title (the others being Max
Schmeling, Karl Mildenberger, Axel Schulz and Luan Krasniqi) –
won an entertaining 6-round shut-out decision over Czech Tomas
Mrazek. While Fischer dominated and showed a marked improvement
from his first two comeback fights last year, Mrazek never gave
up and had ‘The Ox’ always on his toes. In the second round, the
German from Frankfurt got cut over the right eye and the injury
clearly seemed to bother Fischer. However, once the former
two-time International German champion had regained his
composure, he boxed his way home to the verdict. The sole
scoring referee was Hennie De Rijk. |
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Fischer is now 35-6-1 (22 KO’s), but due to the cut is now
unable to challenge current German (interim) heavyweight
champion Konstantin Airich on March 14, as was planned by Arena
Box-Promotion. Trainer Tom Leidenheimer said: “We are really
disappointed, because everything was planned in connection with
the Airich fight, but Mrazek headbutted our plans. It simply
makes no sense, because Willi can’t spar for at least two weeks
now and we hope Olaf and Arena can find a solution. Willi
definitely wants to fight Airich!”.
Another matter, meanwhile, was taken off Fischer’s back the week
prior to his win in Holland. His court case dealing with a 2003
accusation was closed without a verdict after the boxer agreed
thru his attorney to pay the court costs and the supposed victim
some damages. |
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