Newly crowned EBU heavyweight champ Aleksander Dimitrenko has Audley Harrison as mandatory challenger and the EBU have set September 3 as deadline for purse offers and agreements. The winner of Dimitrenko vs Harrison has to fight Russian Denis Bakhtov read more ...

In a clash for the vacant European heavyweight championship, IBF #6/WBA #8/WBO #8 rated Alexander Dimitrenko (30-1, 20 KOs) won when the corner of overmatched Yaroslav Zavorotnyi (14-5, 12 KOs) threw in the towel in round five after Dimitrenko floored Zavorotnyi then battered him in a corner read more ...

According to reports in the Russian press, heavyweights Alexander Dimitrenko (29-1, 19KOs) and Denis Bakhtov (33-5, 22KOs) will fight on July 30 in Yekaterinburg for the vacant EBU title, previously vacated by champion Audley Harrison read more ...

It hardly gets any closer than this. At today’s purse bid for the European heavyweight championship between Alexander Dimitrenko and Denis Bakhtov in Rome, ARENA outbid Universum by only 200,- Euros. ARENA’s offer of 157,000.- Euro were slightly enough to make sure that Universum (156,800.- Euro) cannot stage the fight as planned on their last show with TV partner ZDF on July 31st. Russian promoter German Titov won the purse bid by offering 260,000.- Euros read more ...

You’re busy training for your next fight. How are things going? “I still hope that Audley Harrison will box me in the summer. I’m standing in the starting blocks. Since January I’ve been the mandatory challenger. I’m ready to go. Harrison recently underwent surgery as you have probably heard. “This was obviously not great news. I wish him a very speedy recovery read more ...

The official challenger to the European heavyweight title, Alexander Dimitrenko, is already calling for his shot at the new champion, Audley Harrison. Dimitrenko (29-1, 19KOs) watched on the internet as Harrison (27-4, 20 KOs) knocked out Michael Sprott (32-15, 17 KOs) in the twelfth round to win the vacant Euro title at Alexandra Palace in London. "I followed the fight live on the internet and I have to say that it was a very good fight. Both of them gave it their all read more ...

ALBERT SOSNOWSKI has pulled the plug on his European title showdown with Audley Harrison — in favour of a crack at Vitali Klitschko. Sosnowski was due to defend his crown against Harrison at London's Alexandra Palace on April 9 read more ...

In the next week or so, trainer Emanuel Steward will start camp with WBO/IBF/IBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko for the March 20 title defense against Eddie Chambers. Steward doesn't usually need a very long Klitschko. He tells BoxingScene.com "Wladimir trains all the time and keeps himself in shape. We will probably start in another week read more ...

Ukrainian heavyweight prospect Alexander Dimitrenko was scheduled to have a rematch against Luan Krasniqi on November 28, but the bout was cancelled because of the injury of his opponent. Now Alexander doesn't know when this fight will take place and hopes read more ...

Famous Ukrainian light heavyweight Vitaliy Rusal (24-1-0, 17 КО) who box under banners of «K2 East Promotions» not long ago returned from Germany where he spent a fortnight sparring with leading boxers of German promotional company «Universum Box Promotion». After he came back Vitaliy spoke with our website journalist about his impression of the German fight club and its leading boxers – Alexander Alexeev, Ruslan Chagaev, and Zsolt Erdei and about his plans for the nearest future as well read more ...