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14.7.2008:
Fight Production manager Olaf Schroeder today confirmed reports
coming out of Sweden that Dutch heavyweight
Richel Hersisia,
30-2 (24 KO’s), will indeed clash with veteran former WBO
‘world’ champion
‘Merciless’ Ray Mercer, 35-7-1 (26 KO’s), in
Karlstad, Sweden on September 5 in a bout scheduled for 6 x 2
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“From our side, it’s on,” said Schroeder, “we just wait for
promoter Anders Homberg of Pugnus Boxing Promotion to sign the
contract, but negotiations with Anders went smooth and easy, so
I don’t expect any problems. I am very happy that Anders is
giving us this great opportunity!”.
On his last visit to Swedish shores in September ’07, Mercer
knocked Mikael Lindblad out cold in the first round. For that
fight, Lindblad sparred with Hersisia at the gym of ex-‘world’
champion Graciano Rocchigiani in Germany, so the ‘Dutch Sonny
Liston’ will surely be warned. Mercer may be 47 years of age,
but he proved that his punch is still up there with the best of
them. However, in fact Hersisia has an even higher knockout
ratio than Mercer – although at a lower level – so a spectacular
punch-out looks to be looming. |
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“This is the biggest fight to be held in Sweden in the last 40
years, or since Floyd Patterson lost to Jimmy Ellis for the WBA
‘world’ heavyweight crown in Stockholm in 1968,” proclaimed an
exited promoter Anders Holmberg. |
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