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OSIE TO INHERIT ROY JONES’ WBF THRONE

02.09 - Slowly but surely, the multiple title vacancies at lightheavyweight that superstar Roy Jones left behind after jumping to heavyweight are being filled up one by one. The crown of the World Boxing Foundation (WBF) will accordingly find a new owner on September 6 at the IFCO gym in Berlin when Afro-Spaniard Lee Manuel Osie, the current European Union champion, does battle with Yugoslavian hardcase Zdravko Kostic over 12 rounds to determine Jones’ successor in the WBF.

Both are no spring chickens anymore and have already had long and successful careers, but should be ambitous enough to realize that a win here could lift their respective careers once more. Osie has been out since loosing a decision to current European champion Stipe Drews in November of last year. He suffered eye damage and had to undergo an operation and is now said to be fully recovered. He better be, because Kostic, despite having had an even longer layoff, is a very solid puncher and has lost only three times in a 26-fight career with 17 of his wins coming via the short route.

The fight will be promoted by Eva Rolle’s International Fight Club Organisation (IFCO) and once again be held at their luxurious but cosily small gym with very limited admission.

The undercard presents an international flavour with Austrian middleweight champion Gotthard Hinteregger and Polish cruiserweight prospect Wlodek Kopec featured. Lightheavyweight Robert Rolle, son of IFCO boss Eva, is having his second professional outing after a successful ring debut in the summer and the amazing Riccardo Grassmann continues his quest of turning around his career. The local man has lost nine of his first 11 starts, but won his last four on the trot now.

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