Tickets are now on sale for ‘Next Generation’, Team Sauerland’s special anniversary event to celebrate 35 years since ‘Hall of Fame’ promoter Wilfried Sauerland staged his first show in Germany.
On September 26, exactly 35 years after Sauerland promoted the light heavyweight contest between Chisanda Mutti and Uwe Meinicke at the Cologne Sartory Hall, rising German stars Jack Culcay (20-1, 10 KOs) and Tyron Zeuge (17-0, 10 KOs) will headline an anniversary event at Berlin’s famous Max Schmeling Hall.
Culcay makes a first defence of his interim WBA World Light Middleweight title against Dennis ‘Hurricane’ Hogan (22-0-1, 7 KOs), while Zeuge faces former European champion Eduard Gutknecht (28-3-1, 11 KOs) for the WBO Intercontinental Super Middleweight title.
They will be joined by top German prospects Enrico Koelling (18-1, 6 KOs), Stefan Haertel (6-0) and Burak Sahin (7-0, 6 KOs), plus Bulgarian heavyweight sensation Kubrat Pulev (20-1, 11 KOs), who returns following his courageous world championship challenge against Wladimir Klitschko.
Tickets are on sale now and available by calling (+49) 030-44304430 or online via www.tickethall.de and www.eventim.de.
As in September, I once again ran out of gas in the 10th & 11th championship rounds of October & November with this column, but I recovered to complete them and will unleash a few more flurries to close out the 12th and final round.
In the first week of October, Hassan N’Dam won a UD over Curtis Stevens in an eliminator for the right to challenge Jermaine Taylor who defeated aging Sam Soliman to regain the IBF Middleweight title. How Taylor even earned this title shot is another story altogether, but it is all irrelevant as he is now the champion. However he will not have too much time to savor his victory as he has assault and battery charges pending against him and an upcoming court fight that may turn out to be the toughest fight of his life, just when things started to look up for him in boxing, we wish him luck.
