On Saturday, April 24th, Universum Box-Promotion and Salita Promotions will co-host the inaugural event of their new partnership, a mammoth 14-fight show at the Universum Gym in Hamburg, Germany, streamed live on BILD +. In the twelve-round main event, 2016 Olympic bronze medalist Artem “The Original” Harutyunyan (16-3 including the World Series of Boxing) will face Nicaragua's Oliver “Trombita” Flores (30-3-2, 19 KOs) in a 140-pound bout. In the ten-round co-feature, Timo Schwarzkopf (20-4, 12 KOs) will face Vage Sarukhanyan (20-2-2, 4 KOs) at welterweight..
Also appearing on the livestream will be an intriguing eight-round showdown between undefeated German light heavyweights, as Rostam Ibrahim (6-0-1, 3 KOs) takes on Stuttgart’s Altin Zogaj (7-0, 5 KOs)...
In an eight-round women’s bout, 20 year-old Phannarai Netisri (7-0, 4 KOs), originally from Thailand, will take on 23 year-old Cheyenne “Pepper” Hanson (8-1, 6 KOs) at 122 pounds...
A six-round heavyweight battle is also scheduled for broadcast between southpaw Senad “GachineGun” Gashi (20- 3, 20 KOs) and Germany's Dominic Vial (6-0, 5 KOs)...
In a six-round super middleweight bout, Rafael “Karibik Tiger” Bejaran (26-5-1, 12 KOs), originally from the Dominican Republic will take on Germany’s Florian Wildenhof (30-6-1, 11 KOs)...
And to open the broadcast, Cuban lightweight Frank Zaldivar will face an opponent that is TBA in a six-rounder.
“We are very happy to be able to present a very international fight card worldwide on April 24th,” said Ismail Özen-Otto, CEO of Universum. “In the main fight we have two elite athletes, Artem Harutyunyan the Olympic bronze winner of the Olympic Games in Rio 2016 against Oliver Flores from Nicaragua. The winner of this fight could soon be a world championship challenger.”
“I am excited about working with Universum CEO Ismail Özen- Otto and matchmaker Flavio Oleaga Mirabal and all their world-class fighters,” added Dmitriy Salita, President of Salita Promotions. “On April 24th, boxing fans will get a chance to see some of the best international talent on the planet in competitive, match-ups.”
Oleaga Mirabal, who put the card together, says he’s happy about the exposure the Universum fighters will receive from the partnership with Salita. “The fight card is very exciting. We will stream it in Germany with our media partner Bild + and thanks to our US partner Salita Promotions, we will also broadcast it internationally with other media partners,” he said. “This is a great start to our collaboration.”
A further seven fights will be held on the untelevised portion of the undercard, featuring several of Germany’s next wave of boxing talent in career-building challenges.
The April 24th broadcast will begin at 7:30 German time (1:30 pm ET in the US).
