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Former IBO light heavyweight champ Robin Krasniqi (51-7) and his team have filed an official protest to the IBO in regards to the outcome of his fight against Dominic Boesel (32-2) October 9 in Magdeburg. Boesel won a close, split decision after a close, tough, exciting fight.
Krasniqi feels he was robbed, but unless there is a formal mistake in the scoring the protest isn’t likely to get far.
Former light heavyweight champ Henry Maske was co-commentator for ARD and scored it a draw and I had Boesel up at 115-113. With many rounds difficult to score it could have gone the other way but it was no robbery.
With the score at 1-1 after two fights between these two stablemates a third fight seems likely and promoter Ulf Steinforth told BILD he’s willing to do it but Boesel said his next fight wouldn’t be against Krasniqi.
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Heavyweights Jack Mulowayi (10-2-1) and Evginios Lazaridis are now co-challengers for the vacant EU title. Frenchman Tony Yoka recently relinquished it and the mandatory challenger, Belgian Hervé Hubeaux, withdrew.
The EBU has set October 25 as the deadline for purse bids or agreements.
Mulowayi fights out of Belgium and scored a big upset last time out when he stopped Russian giant Apti Davtaev (20-1-1).
Lazaridis (17-3) is of Greek descent but is based in Frankfurt / Main, Germany.
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Jack Cullen (20-2-1) and Petro Ivanov (14-0-2) have been appointed co-challengers for the vacant EBU title. The deadline for purse bids or agreements is November 2.
Ivanov won the WBC Int’l title in his last fight while Cullen outscored Avni Yildirim.
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Bounce Promotions will promote Marten Arsumanjan’s defiance of the EU super welterweight title against Marcos Nader on December 4 in Vienna, Austria
Arsumanjan (11-1-2) looked lucky to get a draw with Thomas Piccirillo in his last fight while Nader (23-1-1) looked lucky to win this title back in 2013. He lost it the year after and returned to amateur boxing but came back to the pros in 2018 and is now 5-0 on the comeback trail.
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Cesar Nunez (18-3-1) and Eusebio Arias (8-3) clash for the vacant Spanish light heavyweight title November 6 in Pamplona.
The title has been vacant since 2017, reports Espabox.
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Big Cuban heavyweight Jose Larduet (6-0) defends the WBC Latin title against Argentinian Leandro Daniel Robutti (8-4) on November 20 in Hamburg.
Robutti was knocked out in the first by Vladyslav Sirenko on his last visit to Germany and there’s good reason to believe that this fight will end in a similar fashion even if Robutti has since won the national title and scored two wins.
IBF # 1 super lightweight Jeremias Nicolas Ponce (28-0) takes on an opponent to be announced. Ponce stopped favored Lewis Ritson in his last fight.
Turkish middleweight Avni Yildirim (23-4) takes on Yusuf Kanguel (20-4-1) with the vacant International German (BDB version) title at stake.