European superbantamweight title

by Per-Ake Persson

Maravilla Box Management of Spain, headed by Maravilla Martinez himself, won the purse bids today in Rome for [Kiko Martinez]’ mandatory defence of the EBU superbantam title against challenger [Carl Frampton]. MBM bid 62,000 EUR, Matchroom finished second best with an offer for 30,0001 EUR while Pat Magee bid 26,000 EUR.

Date and site is to be announced.

Frampton, 15-0, stopped [Steve Molitor] in his last fight and as it was Molitor actually stepped in for Martinez, 27-3, who had suffered an injury, Mandatory challenger for Kiko was then [Alexander Bakhtin] but he have since won a world title and Frampton was named official challenger.