HINTEREGGER KEEPS SHARP

04.09 - While hoping and waiting for one final shot at the big time, International Austrian champion Gotthard Hinteregger, who goes by the nickname of “The Cougar”, intends to keep his claws sharp when he returns to the ring in Berlin, Germany on September 6 as main support to the vacant WBF ‘world’ lightheavyweight title fight between Lee Manuel Osie and Zdravko Kostic.

Hinteregger, 22-6-1 (12), had this fight scrapped at the last minute in July and intends to let his opponent, 21-year-old Slovakian journeyman Robert Andrasik, feel his frustration.

“I may be 36 years old, but have always adherd to a healthy lifestyle,” says the colourful Vienna native whose mother hails from Trinidad, “I have dedicated myself to give boxing all I have for the rest of my career.”

The show is staged by promoter Eva Rolle’s IFCO organization at their spacious gym in the former eastern part of the German capital. It will be Hinteregger’s second fight since Olaf Schroeder’s company Fight Production earlier this year took over the superwelterweights management and with it the admittedly far-from-easy task of finding a rewarding end to the superwelterweight’s career.