News - Luan Krasniqi

French jr. middleweight Christophe Canclaux is still waiting for his shot at the WBA title held by Joachim Alcine, who´s now sidelined with an injury. Canclaux will stay busy with a fight lined up for either March 22 in France or will be on Sauerland´s show in Neubrandenburg on April 12. Talented Russian jr. welterweight Sergey Sorokin goes for the vacant (Italian Giuseppe Lauri relinquished it) WBC Int´l title on March 11 read more ...

The battle between WBO #2 heavyweight contender Alexander Dimitrenko and #12 rated Luan Krasniqi will not take place on March 8 as originally announced. The entire "Universum Champions Night" card scheduled to take place at the Porsche Arena in Stuttgart was cancelled after Dimitrenko surprisingly rejected the fight against his Universum Box-Promotion stablemate. The date and place for a substitute "Universum read more ...

Luan Krasniqi and Aleksander Dimitrenko may clash in an internal Universum heavyweight eliminator on February 23, somewhere in Germany, writes the always well informed Bild Zeitung. -Itґs not a done deal yet but we are talking, said Universum boss Klaus Peter Kohl. If it comes off it will be for the vacant EBU title. read more ...

After an eleven month layoff, heavyweight contender Luan Krasniqi (29-2-1, 14 KOs) will headline the March 17 "Universum Champions Night" card at the Hanns-Martin-Schleyerhalle in Stuttgart, Germany. Also in acton is unbeaten heavyweight Alexander Dimitrenko (24-0, 14 KOs) and WBA bantamweight champion Wladimir Sidorenko (19-0-1, 6 KOs). Opponents will be named for Krasniqi and Dimitrenko, while Sidorenko will face #1 rated Ricardo Cordoba read more ...

Heavyweight contender Luan Krasniqi is expected to return on March 17 in Stuttgart at the Hanns Martin Schleyer Halle. No opponent is set yet, but there is interest in a rematch with former world champ Lamon Brewster. Other possibilities are Tony Thompson and ex-champs Hasim Rahman or Evander Holyfield. read more ...

Just four days after his victory over Samuel Peter, heavyweight Wladmir Klitschko took time out from his busy schedule to sit down with FightNews to talk about the victory and his future plans. The interview took place minutes after WBO heavyweight champ Lamon Brewster stopped Luan Krasniqi in Germany. Brewster stopped Klitschko in the fifth round on April 10th of last year. read more ...

Luan Krasniqi entered the ring to deafening applause from the over 10,000 German boxing fans on hand at the Color Line Arena in Hamburg on Wednesday night on the anniversary of Max Schmeling's 100th birthday. They were assembled to see him challenge World Boxing Organization heavyweight champion "Relentless" Lamon Brewster, from Los Angeles, who was making his third title defense. read more ...

"I don’t want to be compared to Max Schmeling," says Luan Krasniqi (28-1-1, 14 KOs), who will challenge champion Lamon Brewster (32-2, 28 KOs) for the WBO heavyweight title on Wednesday at the Color Line Arena in Hamburg, Germany. "I naturally want to go the way Schmeling went and also become world champion, but I will never step into his footsteps....he is the greatest sportsman Germany has ever had." read more ...

Luan Krasniqi passed his most important test and scored the biggest win of his professional boxing career. In front of 5,000 enthusiastic fans at Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle of Stuttgart the 34-year-old heavyweight top-contender knocked out American Lance Whitaker in round six with a right cross to the head. Whitaker who was knocked down for the first time in his career was unconscious for a while and remained lying on the canvas flat on his back for almost a... read more ...