On the 11th of May, Firat Arslan is going to celebrate his comeback against the reigning European cruiserweight champion Alexander Alekseev at the EMS arena in Göppingen. The two promoters from Hamburg, Universum Box Promotion and EC agreed on a joint event in the hometown of Arslan. In his second fight for Universum, Arslan is going for the first shot at the title after his comeback. “I am happy that everything has worked out. Even more so I am looking forward to a fight in my hometown. With the support of my fans I will get the title for sure,” says Arslan. Both Arslan and Alekseev have performed well in their last match, thus we can expect a good night of boxing when these excellent fighters will face each other.
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.
