29.03.06 – By Per Ake Persson: Mike Tyson will be the referee in a K 1 showdown between South African Francois Botha and Jorgen Holm, a K 1 star, who´s 1-0 as a proboxer, May 20 in Stockholm, writes Aftonbladet. K 1 didn´t exist by the time professional boxing was prohibited in 1970 and thus wasn´t included in the law – but K 1 will be included in the new martial arts law that is likely to come into effect this fall.. The new version won´t ban anything it seems – it´s only that they have to be as safe as amateur boxing, which in effect will stop K 1, Thaiboxing and professional boxing they way it looks today..
Lightheavy Attilio Trane makes his prodebut March 30 in Rome on the undercard to the fight for the Italian 160 lb title between Domenico Spada and Luciano Lombardi. Attilio is the son of Guido Trane, who gave George Foreman a tough fight back in the mid-80´s.
Team Palle writes in a press release that if comebacking ex-WBA bantam champ Johnny Bredahl beats Alexander Fedorov tomorrow (March 30) in Copenhagen they will attempt to move him directly into a WBA eliminator against Panamanian Ricardo Cordoba, who just drew with current WBA king, Wladimir Sidorenko. Supermiddle Rudy Markussen, who was to have fought Sergey Tatevosyan on the bill, is sidelined with the flu.
Hungarians Andres Meszaros and Zsolt Nagy, both unbeaten, clash for the vacant WBO I/C featherweight title sometime in April.
Check out sportinglife.com for an interesting article about Nikolai Valuev.
Pound4lbPound Events promotes a small show in Aachen, Germany, April 8. Sauerland Event have heavyweight Manuel Charr and cruiser Yoan Pablo Hernandez on the bill that was to have featured a WBF female titlefight with Damaris Muthoni but following a financial dispute between Mario Guedes, who was to train and promote Muthoni and ill-reputed agent Olaf Schroeder, who manages Muthoni, she was pulled off the show.