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by Per Ake Persson
March 16, 2008
(MAR 16) On March 14th, in
Odense, Denmark, Danish cruiser Anders Hugger moved to 10-0 with a
close, unanimous decision over much more experienced
American Louis Azille. It was scored 115- 112 on two
cards and 116-112, which looked a bit generous to the
localite - and many disagreed. Hugger was down in ninth but was overall
scoring with more punches than Azille, who was right in front of his
opponent most of the time and was quite effective at times with brutal
hooks to the head and body of his opponent but couldn't keep it up.
Hugger, cut and marked up, kept landing with his straight left and
fought his way through the rough patches.
Lolenga Mock won the vacant EU super middle belt with
close, controversial split decision over Italian Mohamed Ali Ndiaye. It
was scored 115-113 and 115-113 for Mock while the third card read
116-112 for Ndiaye. Again, it was aggression against cleaner punches and
Mock attacked but looked slow and failed to get off while Ndiaye mixed
good jabs with wild punches that missed their target completely. All in
all it was difficult to score but Ndiyae looked like the winner - and
again many disagreed.
Vinni Skovgaard overcame a bad first round to stop
Belgian Zelda Tekin in the tenth and final round to win the vacant WBC
Intīl female jr welter title. Skovgaard was well ahead on points
going into the last round when she floored her opponent with a
left-right. Telkin got up but was stopped.
Middleweight Thomas Povlsen boxed well in two rounds
and spoiled his way through four for a close decision
over Venezuelan Carlos Donquiz.
Heavyweight Claus Bertino knocked out Romanian Iusan
Zachei Livio with a right 30 seconds into the first.
News:
Reports on a possible Mikkel Kessler vs Edison Miranda
fight May 24 on Showtime could not be confirmed at
ringside in Odense.
It will be Marco Schulze that challenge WBO I/C middle
champ Sebastian Zbik April 19 in Magdeburg.
It could be Ukrainian Viktor Plotnikov that challenge
EBU welter champ Jackson Osei Bonsu May 3 in Antwerp,
Belgium.
P 3 Boxing in Finland have a show in the works for
April in Helsinki headlined by jr welters Juho
Tolppola and Dennis Shafikovs in separate bouts.
Source: This material is provided by Boxing
Press, and Per is the BP European Feature Writer.
