On Thursday December 2nd, at the Halle Carpentier Arena in Paris France, former
two-time cruiserweight champion, and now IBF #10 and WBA #12 heavyweight rated
contender, Jean Marc Mormeck (35-4, 22KO’s) will look to take one step closer towards challenging for a heavyweight world title, when he takes on fellow contender Timur Ibragimov (30-2-1, 16KO’s). The bout is scheduled for twelve rounds and is promoted by Mormeck’s J3M Management and Star Boxing.
The fight on the 2nd will mark Mormeck’s third since he started his campaign at
heavyweight in December of 2009. In his last bout he won a ten round unanimous decision
over two-time heavyweight world title challenger Fres Oquendo. A win over Ibragimov,
a 1996 Olympian, could set Mormeck up for a world title shot against current WBA
champion, David Haye, or with one of the Klitschko brothers sometime in 2011.
Ibragimov, currently riding a nine bout win streak, is ranked number seven in the world by
the WBA.
Mormeck-Ibragimov is promoted by J3M Management and Star Boxing, and being distributed live on Orange TV.
As in September, I once again ran out of gas in the 10th & 11th championship rounds of October & November with this column, but I recovered to complete them and will unleash a few more flurries to close out the 12th and final round.
In the first week of October, Hassan N’Dam won a UD over Curtis Stevens in an eliminator for the right to challenge Jermaine Taylor who defeated aging Sam Soliman to regain the IBF Middleweight title. How Taylor even earned this title shot is another story altogether, but it is all irrelevant as he is now the champion. However he will not have too much time to savor his victory as he has assault and battery charges pending against him and an upcoming court fight that may turn out to be the toughest fight of his life, just when things started to look up for him in boxing, we wish him luck.
