World champion Zsolt Erdei seeks a new challenge – he now faces the Italian WBC cruiserweight world champion Giacobbe Fragomeni (Live on ZDF from 11.15 pm) The long-term and unbeaten WBO light heavyweight world champion Zsolt Erdei will now, in a special highlight of his boxing career, step up a weight division and challenge the reigning WBC cruiserweight world champion Giacobbe Fragomeni of Italy. After eleven successful title defences in nearly six years the Hungarian world champion Zsolt „Firebird“ Erdei (30-0, 17 KOs) seeks a new challenge at the peak of his career. In his last title bout in Magdeburg in January 2009 when he defeated the Ukranian Yuri Barashian over twelve rounds..
The Italian WBC cruiserweight world champion Giacobbe Fragomeni (26-1-1, 10 KOs) has only one defeat in his career when he was beaten by the British David Haye. The Milan based fighter claimed the vacant title in October 2008 when he defeated the up to that point unbeaten spotlight boxing contender Rudolf Kraj.
Due to a fact that the unification bouts against the WBA and respectively IBF world champion Gabriel Campillo and Tavoris Cloud (he cancelled the fight last minute) were called of by the titleholders, the popular Zsolt Erdei will now display his world class skills in the next higher weight divison. His predecessor, WBO world champion Dariusz „Tiger“ Michalczewski, also took this path in 1994 when he was the light heavyweight champion and challenge the WBO cruiserweight champion Nestor Giovanni. He won that fight.
Universum chief Klaus-Peter Kohl: „Everyone who knows Zsolt Erdei can confirm that he seeks the ultimate challenge. As a long-time WBO light heavyweight world champion we had planned a unification bout against the WBA champion Gabriel Campillo. After his cancellation we were in completing talks with the IBF world champion Tavoris Cloud but than he surprisingly called it off. Now we are looking forward that Zsolt Erdei has stepped up a weight class like his predecessor Dariusz Michalczewski and that he will now challenge the world champion. It will be a special fight and we are thrilled to return to Kiel with such an event as it has been three years to find a suitable date in the Sparkassen-Arena to stage this fantastic night!“
World title fight for Vitali Tajbert – WBC Interim Super featherweight championship against the Mexican Humberto Gutierrez
The second headlining bout will feature the spotlight fighter Vitali Tajbert of Stuttgart, who will be facing WBC interim super featherweight champion Humberto Mauro Gutierrez (26-1-1, 19 KOs) of Mexico. In this Super Featherweight collusion the winner will be most likely crowned the full WBC champion as the defending titlist Humberto Soto (Mexiko) is considering of moving up a weight division. This will be the first world title chance for #3 WBC rated Tajbert, who is a former youth world champion and won the bronze medal in the Olympics in Athens in 2004 and only beaten on in his 18 pro fights. Humberto Gutierrez won the WBC Interim title in August 2009 against the Belarusian Sergy Gulyakevich by a marginal decision. The 27 year old Vitali Tajbert has vowed to take the belt: „I will show everyone in this fight and get that title. At age 20, the Mexican is still very young, but he already has 24 fights and won 19 times by KO. His victory over Gulyakevich shows his dangerousness. This is the biggest challenge of my career and I’m going to fulfill my dream of becoming the first German world champion in the super featherweight division.“
The fight for the vacant WBA super middleweight title of spotlight boxing super middleweight contender Dimitri Sartison and the Croatian Stjepan Bozic will be the third world title bout of the „Universum Champions Night“ on November 21 at the Sparkassen-Arena in Kiel. Due to the cancellation of the event in Oberhausen both fighters will step now into the ring a week before their scheduled battle. With this fight another high class boxing battle can be expected. The WBA #2 rated Sartison will meet Bozic for the vacant WBA super middleweight championship as Mikkel Kessler has been elevated to super champion.
Dimitri Sartison (25-1, 16 KOs) will now have his second shot at the WBA world title after being defeated in his first try in June 2008 by Mikkel Kessler after bravely fighting over the twelve rounds. The 35 year old Croatian Stjepan Bozic (23-3, 14 KOs), who lives an trains in Zagreb is the WBA Intercontinental super middleweight titlist since August 2007 and currently WBA #3 rated, just one position behind Dimitri Sartison. “With the experience from my first world championship fight, and my three victories since, I am prepared very well for this big title shot,” said a highly motivated Sartison. “With my coach Magomed Schaburow, whom I’ve been with for 13 years, we will approach this difficult task against Bozic calmly and with the usual precision. I will get this belt for Germany. I owe it to my loyal fans here!”
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Juergen Braehmer is the WBO World Champion
Jürgen Brähmer is now the full WBO light heavyweight world champion. Long-standing WBO 175lb world champion Zsolt Erdei has relinquished the belt to move up to cruiserweight to challenge WBC world champion Giaccobe Fragomeni on November 21st in Kiel, Germany. Brähmer is Universum Box-Promotion’s 33rd pro world champion.
Also, an opponent has been named for Brähmer’s first defense on December 19 in his hometown of Schwerin. The “Hundred Year Talent” will face unbeaten Russian Dmitry Sukhotsky (14-0, 9 KOs), the WBO-Europa titleholder and #10 in the WBO ratings.
“I am very glad that I’ve have finally reached my big goal to be a professional world champion,” stated Brähmer. “Of course, now I have to win on December 19th against Sukhotsky as an obligation to Zsolt. But with the title I am still far from the end. I would like to win convincingly in many good world championship fights and show that I deserve to carry this belt.“
Erdei commented, “I wish Jürgen a lot of fun and a lot of luck with the belt. He shouldn’t merely just lose it. Now I’m going to get the WBC belt of Mr. Fragomeni and become the first Hungarian boxer to win world titles in in two weight classes.“
Co-Promoter Dietmar Poszwa added, “After nearly six years as a WBO world champion, Zsolt Erdei very much wanted his next fight to be another big highlight in his career. We worked on two title unifications, but unfortunately in each case the negotiations failed shortly before the end. Then the possibility came up for us to box for the WBC belt at cruiserweight. We sat down to a table with all involved parties and put together this great fight for Zsolt. In boxing history, not too many boxers have succeeded in becoming world champion in two weight classes!“