23.04.06 – By Per Ake Persson: Danish media reports the tragic death of 33-year old ex-IBC supercruiser and Danish heavy champ Tue Bjorn Thomsen. Apparently Thomsen got into a brawl at a nightclub and someone used a knife and stabbed him to death. Thomsen´s last fight was in the fall of 2002 but he never really retired, just sort of faded away, and told this reporter last year he didn´t rule out a comeback.. He was 22-1-0-1 as a pro and as an amateur won a bronze in the 97 World championships. Before his fight against Rob Calloway (W 12) in 2001 he was trained by current WBA cruiser champ Virgil Hill and Al Larsien. Tue had done time for his part in bar-room brawls but was very well liked in the Danish boxing community. He was at the last Palle show in Copenhagen working the corner of his good friend Christian Bladt. Tue was a good fighter with a big heart but had the misfortune of being stuck between cruiser (the old limit of 190) and heavyweight.
German lightheavy Mathias Kempe takes on Slovakian Richard Remen April 28 in Potsdam. Latvian heavy Edgar Kalnars face Eduard Klimko and Swedish welter Vatche Wartanian fight Vladimir Tazik. Topping the bill is comebacking middleweight Tonton Semakala, who squares off against Jurijs Boreiko. There are all in all nine fights scheduled for this the second Friday Night Fights promotion at the Blue Box put on by Elite Boxing.
Italian cruiser Giacobbe Fragomeni have relinquished the WBC Int´l cruiserweight title to concentrate on a world title shot. Russian Grigory Drozd was lined up to fight for the vacant title against an opponent to be announced May 9 in Prague on a Spotlight Boxing show but is sidelined with an injury. The fight will now go ahead in July in Germany.