Hennessy Sports won today’s purse bids for the vacant EBU superbantam title between Kid Galahad, 15-0, and Sergio Prado, 9-3-1. Hennessy bid 51 201,00 Euro while Rimer Boxe bid 45 113,00 Euro. Date and site for the fight is to be announced.

 

Prado lost three straight fights in 2010 and 2011 but is unbeaten since then winning both the Spanish and EU titles but Galahad must be regarded as a big favorite in this one.

 

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Italian OPI 2000 beat Hatton Promotions in the purse bids today in Rome and won the right to stage EBU superwelter champ Sergey Rabchenko’s mandatory defence of the title against Italian Emanuele Della Rosa. OPI 2000 bid 71 317,00 Euro while Hatton bid 48 878,00 Euro. Date and site is to be announced.

 

Rabchenko (25-0 and WBC # 1) vs Della Rosa (33-1, WBC # 5) is effectively also an eliminator for a fight for a WBC world title but if the winner gets a chance to take on Floyd Mayweather is a different story though.

 

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EU flyweight king Xavier Urpi from Spain will make his mandatory defence against Frenchman Vincent Legrand away from after French promotional company Complexe Des Tombelles won today’s purse bids in Rome with a bid for 6 670,00 Euro. Rimer Boxe finished second with a bid for 3500,00 Euro. Date and site is to be announced.

 

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The Viking Warrior, Mikkel Kessler (pictured) became a father for the first time around Christmas. A private matter it may seem but Kessler is on record telling reporters that he would never enter the ring as a parent. Interviewed in BT today Kessler leaves the door open for a continued career but nothing is decided yet.

 

Kessler have been out of the ring and the limelight since losing to Carl Froch in May of last year.

 

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Europrom, headed by Gerard Teysseron, will stage Karim Guerfi´s defence of the EBU bantam title against Zhanat Zhakiyanov April 18 in Marrakech (Morocco).

 

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EU welter champ Ceferino Rodriguez will defend the title against former WBA champ Ismael El Massoudi May 9 at home in Las Palmas (Spain).

 

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Sauerland Event reports that there are over 10 000 tickets sold for Marco Huck´s defence of the WBO cruiser title against Firat Arslan at the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer Hall in Stuttgart on Saturday. Kalle Sauerland compares Huck vs Arslan II with Henry Maske vs Graciano Rocchigiani II (a clear win for Maske). Huck vs Arslan II will be televised in 60 countries.

 

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WBO Youth cruiser champ Dennis Ronert, 19-0, defends the title against Albanian Shefat Isufi, 12-0-2, March 1 at the Getec Arena in Magdeburg in a supporting bout to Stieglitz vs Abraham III.

Jan 19, Montreal, CAN:

Mike Perez, 104,9, Cub/Ire D10-M Carlos Takam, 116,2, Cam/Fra

96-94, 95-95 twice. Takam did better than expected and overcame a slow start to shake Perez in the ninth for a strong finish that salvaged a draw.

lh: Arthur Beterbiev, TKO 4 Gabriel Lecrosnier, Fra

 

Jan 18, Belgrade, SER, Serbian Fighter Gym

6x3: Bogdan Mitic, 68,0, Ser TKO 4 George Balan,

Jean Francois Traore Dubourg, 100,5, Fra/? W 4 (40-36) Constantin Marian Armenga, 96,0,

Mugurel Sebe, 72,5, Rom/ ? D 4 (38-38) Ali Khavari, 71,3, debut

Dzemil Cosovic, 60,0, Ser W 4 (40-36) Goran Savic, 59,0, Ser

Bojan Veljkovic, 61,0, Ser D 4 (38-38) Milan Savic, 59,5, Ser

 

Jan 17, Pont-Saint-Maxence, FRA:

l: Yvan Mendy, Fra W10-U Sylvain Chapelle, Fra

Mendy retained the French lightweight title on scores of 97-93 twice and 98-92.

 

Jan 17, Riga, LAT, Club Rigas Ring, GENS (Vitalis Maslennikovs)

4x3: Janis Ginters, 113,8, Lat TKO 1 (1.34) Elmars Lankovskis, 121,6, Lat

Stopped after Lankovskis was floored.

4x3: Ivans Levickis, 63,5, Daugavpils, Lat TKO 1 (2.17) Zans Barsukovs, 65,0, Lat

Barsukovs was hurt by a bodyshot and was unable to continue.

4x3: Jurijs Ivanovs, 69,0, Turkums, Lat TKO 1 (2.17) Olegs Vilcans, 67,4, Lat

Vilcans was floored and then refused to continue the fight.

4x3: Vitalis Zakirko, 98,0, Riga, Lat TKO 3 (1.37) Vitalis Zakirko, 98,0, Lat

Kirins was floored and then refused to continue to fight. 20-20 after two.

4x3: Grigorijs Dunecs, 68,4, Riga, Lat TKO 2 (1.37) Maksims Volkovs, 69,7, Lat

Volkovs was floored and it was stopped. 10-9 for Dunecs after the first.

4x3: Raimonds Sniedze, 74,8, Riga, Lat TKO 1 (2.06) Andrejs Liepins, 72,7, Lat

4x3: Sergejs Logins, 57,8, Riga, Lat TKO 3 (0.32) Arturs Prone, 58,2, Lat

20-18 Logins after two.

4x3: Edgars Kalnars, 100,0, Elgava, Lat TKO 1 (0.56) Albert Mutulis, 110,0, Lat

Mihails Sakara, 69,8, Olaine, Lat D 4 (39-39) Konstantins Sakara, 67,9, Olaine, Lat

Tournament:

4x3, 1/2: Kirils Boiko, 79,8, Riga, Lat TKO 2 (0.38) Reinis Stutans, 80,6, Lat

Stutans floored and stopped. 10-9 for Boiko.

4x3, 1/2: Olegs Lopajevs, 87,4, Riga, Lat KO 1 (2.10) Konstantins Jurkovs, 82,0, Lat

6x3, 1/1: Olegs Lopajevs, TKO 4 (2.35) Kirils Boiko

30-37 for Lopajevs, after three. Boiko floored three times in the fourth and it was stopped.

 

Jan 16, Panama City, PAN:

sf: Zapir Rasulov, Ger TKO 1 Ever Garcia,