26 September 2009

On October 24th in Dessau, Germany, the ‘White Buffalo’ Francois Botha (47-4-2, 28 KOs) wants to hunt down his next German prey, Willi ‘The Ox’ Fischer (37-6-1, 24 KOs), after already upsetting Timo Hoffmann last May. The last time Dessau hosted professional boxing in 2007, Natascha Ragosina delighted a sold-out audience in the Anhalt-Arena in a world title fight. “It’s about time the city plays host again to a big boxing event,” said Dessau’s sports director Ralf Hirsch, after vehemently lobbying his city with promoter SES Boxing. DSF television will broadcast the heavyweight clash between the ‘Buffalo’ and the ‘Ox’ live in Germany. The appearance of Francois Botha in Dessau is the most large-scale boxing event ever in the city.
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Marseille, France
16 September 2009

On October 9th, 2009 in Marseille, France former world champions Myriam Lamare (34) and Ann Saccurato (30) will clash. Both women will be fighting over a distance of 10 rounds for the vacant title of the World Boxing Foundation (WBF). The agreed weight for this championship is 140 lbs (light welterweight).

There couldn’t be a more balanced championship. New York based Saccurato (14-3-2) and the French local hero Lamare (16-3-0) are about the same size (5′ 6½″ , 5′ 6″), both turned professional beginning of 2000 (2002,2003) and both lost unanimously vs. world champion Holly Holm in 2007 and 2009. When it comes to the weight Saccurato can benefit from scaling up to the next light welterweight as she is currently 135 lbs. Lamare, however, needs to drop some pounds.
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Nathan Dole
Bendigo Advertiser
Bendigo, Australia
16 September 2009

NOW at number four in the Australian rankings, Kangaroo Flat-based heavyweight champion Justin Whitehead is focused on next month’s boxing contest with a yet-to-be named opponent.

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Melbourne, Australia
15 September 2009

On Sunday 4 October 2009 Brian Amatruda and Barry Michael Sports present the next installment of Box on the Docks 7 at Melbourne’s prestigious Shed 14 at Central Pier, Docklands.

The main event features Sam Soliman and Les Piper for the interim WBF Middleweight Title. Other big names in Australian boxing featured on the undercard include Lance Gostelow, Daniel Lovett, Sam Colomban and Pat Rullo.

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Pete Moscardi
East London, South Africa
28 August 2009

In one of the better ‘world’ title fights seen in this country this year, Lubabalo Msuthu overcame inexperience and a tightly closed right eye from the sixth round to produce an outstanding performance in pounding out a unanimous points victory over the very capable Kenyan, Nick Otieno over 12 all-action rounds to retain his WBF bantamweight title at the Orient Theatre.

Msuthu at 10-2 (9) going in, was way short of the experience of Otieno who was 18-2 (7) going in and the holder of the WBC International and ABU titles. The Kenyan was certainly a formidable opponent who has seen action at the highest levels. Although his record has many unknown names on it, it shows a majority decision loss to Eduardo Garcia for the IBF title in their fight in Russia in February 2008, and a points loss to the world class Filipino, Z Gores in their fight in the Philippines in May last year. Otieno returned to the Philippines in October last year to score an eighth round KO over Rexon Flores. Msuthu, who was making his first defence, won the WBF title in a superb display of power and aggression with a seventh round KO over Jose Cabrero in November last year.
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