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Theo Kerekesch To Train Mihaly Kotai


PHOTO:Teacher and trainer: Kerekesch analyzes videos of Kotai’s recent fights

10.02 - Highly regarded German trainer Theo Kerekesch is poised to take over as trainer for WBC International champion Mihaly Kotai and will prepare him already for his next fight. “We needed some changes and improvements in that department as Mihaly moves up to higher levels,” said the Hungarian superwelterweight’s manager Olaf Schroeder, “and I am exited to have dragged Theo out of a retirement that came way too early for someone with his expertise and vast boxing knowledge.”

The 66-year-old Kerekesch had a successful amateur career himself with some 120 bouts before taking over the training regime of his club in Rottweil, Germany. For 30 years running, Kerekesch astonishingly produced at least one Baden-Württemberg champion per annum with his masterpiece becoming Luan Krasniqi, the former European and German heavyweight champion in the professionals. Under Kerekesch’s guidance, Krasniqi won the European championships in ’96, silver medals in both the world championships and military world championships in ’95 and two German titles in ’94 and ’95 before rounding off his unpaid career with a bronze medal at the Atlanta Olympics. When Krasniqi turned professional in 1997 with Panos Eliades, Frank Maloney and Olaf Schroeder, Kerekesch went with him and remained as trainer of the heavyweight for four years, until Krasniqi bolted to Universum Box-Promotion as an undefeated 15-0 contender. During that time, Kerekesch also coached German cruiserweight contender Firat Arslan and had the chance to work alongside Emanuel Stewart in various camps of world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis. “I was always sceptical of trainers who spend such a long time in the amateur code, but Theo really convinced me like no one before,” Schroeder says today. That is presumably the reason why the head of Fight Production now feels more than comfortable with the new connection between his undefeated 21-0 (11 KO’s) charge and the veteran German trainer.

Kotai, who on the heels of his latest victory in Las Vegas earlier this month moved up to # 9 WBC contender to world champion Oscar De La Hoya, will soon leave for Germany to start preparing with Kerekesch for his first WBC International title defence pencilled in for early April.

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