IBF female featherweight champ Sarah Mahfoud (9-0) could, according to a press release from promoter Mogens Palle, be facing WBO queen Amanda Serrano (38-1-1) in December.
There’s also been some talk of a an all-Danish fight between Mahfoud and WBO super bantamweight champ Dina Thorslund but Palle is adamant that the fight can only happen without the involvement of Thorslund’s former promoter Team Sauerland.
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German-Ukrainian heavyweight Viktor Faust (3-0) knocked out Spaniard Gabriel Enguema (10-10) in the third last night (Sep 20) in Dnipro. Winning over Enguema is one thing he is a decent fighter, good enough to take a lot prospects the distance so it was a good win for Faust. Also on the bill was Faust’s stablemate at EC Boxing Ali Eren Demirezen (13-1) won a unanimous decision over Kamil Sokolowski (9-19-2).
Danish trainer and former amateur boxer Ricard Olsen passed away this past weekend at the age of 72. Olsen trained fighters at the CIK Gym in Copenhagen and the club was for many years among the best in Scandinavia. One fighter he trained from day one was Mikkel Kessler, who went on to superstardom. Kessler was in later years trained by Jimmy Montoya but it was Ricard Olsen who helped shape the Dane in his younger days.
An Olsen-trained fighter was well schooled, well conditioned and knew what do in the ring using the jab, right hand and a “killing” punch in the left hook to the body. Other fighters trained by Olsen was Rudy Markussen, Mads Larsen, Frank Olsen, Steffen Norskov and Tue Bjorn Thomsen.
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EBU super featherweight champ Samir Ziani (32-3-1) from France now have Spaniard John Carter (13-0-1) as mandatory challenger: Carther have thus vacated the EU title which is now be contested between Haithem Laamouz (15-1) from Malta and Italian Mario Alfano (15-1-1). Deadline for purse bids or agreements for both fights are set for October 12.
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Polish cruiser Mateusz Masternak (42-5) is now back at professional boxing and outscored Taylor Mabika (19-6-2) on Friday night in Tarnow. Masternak tried to make it to the Olympics but when the Games were postponed until next year he decided to return to professional boxing.
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Anita Lindblom has passed away at the age of 82. She was a big star in her own right when she met the by then former EBU light middleweight champion Bo Hogberg but together they reached superstardom in a relationship that had it all and the media just loved it.
For Hogberg it meant he drifted away from boxing and eventually landed in jail while Lindblom faced a lot of problems with the taxman and left Sweden and never really got her career back on track. Her version of ‘You Can Have Her’ from 1961 is a classic with the Swedish lyrics written by Stickan Andersson, who some 15 years later hit the big time as manager for ABBA.