Gomez-McCall undercard announced

18/10/2007

Gomez-McCall undercard announced

It’s just one more day to go to arena’s “Champion’s Night” in Berlin’s Estrel Convention Center featuring 4 international title fights with the big main event between “Black Panther” Juan Carlos Gomez and “The Atomic Bull” Oliver McCall. Within the last days before the fight there have been some changes on the undercard.

Two unbeaten arena-stars had to pull out of their fights because of injuries suffered in the last week of sparring. “Mini-Tyson” Selcuk Aydin (welterweight) and Konstantin Airich (heavyweight) won’t have a chance to add victories to their “clean slate”-records.

Instead Berlin’s box-fans have the chance to see one of arena’s most exciting athletes when Cuban Olympic gold medallist Yuriorkis Gamboa (5-0-0) faces strong Ethiopian Samuel Kebede (25-1-0).

Öner: “This is another hard test for Gamboa. If he beats Kebede and wins his US-debut in Miami as well he should get ranked in the Top 15 by all sanctioning bodies after only 7 professional fights. I don’t know whether anybody has ever made it to the top that fast. He might get a shot for the World title after 10 or 12 fights. Some people think that we should slow down a little. But you can’t slow down Gamboa. He’s a natural born boxer.“

Ahmet Öner will also send his second Olympic gold medallist into the ring; Heavyweight sensation Odlanier Solis faces experienced Jeremy Bates (USA).

German heavyweight prospect Steffen Kretschmann takes on “T-Rex” Corey Sanders (USA); no easy job for “Kretsche” as Sanders stopped World Champion Oleg Maskaev five years ago in round 8.

Former European heavyweight champion Sinan Samil Sam (Turkey) wants to clear his name from losing to Oliver McCall in his hometown Ankara on June 16th by beating Croatia’s Ivica Perkovic in a WBC Mediterranean championship bout.

After WBC international middleweight champion Mahir “Lion” Oral broke his right hand and had to pull out of his title defence against former champ Domenico Spada, Mahir’s friend Alpaslan Agüzüm will try to keep his vacant title in the arena gym.

Italy’s former World Champion Silvio Branco and No. 4 ranked Brazilian Peter Venancio fight for the vacant WBC international light heavyweight championship.

Also on the card: young Polish prospect Krysztof Cieslak who faces Latvia’s Juris Ivanovs in his second pro-fight and Macedonian heavyweight Goran Gogic (17-3-2) who takes on Özcan Cetinkaya (10-3-0) from Turkey.

The show is almost sold out. Only very few tickets will be available at the ticket counter in Estrel Convention Center.