Ahmet Öner

One year after his title challenge to Vitali Klischko was hastily abridged by a knee injury, Odlanier Solis is back in training and purportedly ready to make good on his ambition of world domination. Caution is best advised when discussing the imminent reappearance of the elusive Solis, who has already seen two provisional comeback dates come and go, amid some rumours he may be lost to the sport read more ...

Promoter Ahmet Oner of Arena Box recently explained his view on why German promotional company Universum suffered such a serious decline in the last couple of years. In the opinion of Oner, there were miscalculations in their strategy for televised events and they led to ZDF walking away at the end of the deal. Universum has since restructured their stable of fighters and the company has new ownership read more ...

German promoter Ahmet Oner, head of ARENA Boxing Promotions, has declared that «boxing in Germany is officially dead» and that he plans to pull out of promoting in Germany. Now recognized as an international promoter, Oner currently lives in Miami and Istanbul, Turkey. "I have worked with [Yuriorkis] Gamboa, one of the best and most spectacular boxers in the world, who had a super reception in the U.S. read more ...

When Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye Stepp into the ring for their long estimated heavyweight championship unification bout, promoter Ahmet Oner keeps his fingers crossed for the British enfant terrible. "I hope that Haye delivers the beating he has been talking about for the past weeks, months and years. I just can’t stand the Klitschkos, their arrogance and their disgusting manager Bernd Bönte read more ...

Four days after the WBC world heavyweight championship fight between Vitali Klitschko and Odlanier Solis, Solis promoter Ahmet Oner has apologized for his profanity-laced outburst at the press conference after the fight. «I simply overreacted and I’m sorry for that», says Oner. "I lost control because of all the provocations and I shouldn’t have done it. Period. I already apologized to Vitali at the press conference read more ...

Promoter Ahmet Oner of Arena Box is very confident that his boxer Odlanier Solis (17-0, 12KOs) will unseat WBC champion Vitali Klitschko (41-2, 38KOs) on Saturday in Cologne, Germany. He says Klitschko was avoiding the fight for nearly two years. The opportunity has finally come and he expects Solis to come through with a title win read more ...

In a battle of undefeated fighters Jo Jo Dan (26-0, 14 KOs) will be meeting Selcuk Aydin (19-0, 15 KOs) in Turkey June 5th for the WBC Silver (Interim) welterweight belt. “It’s a done deal,” Dan’s Romanian promoter Chris Ganescu of Gankor Promotions told Fightnews read more ...

German promoter Ahmet Öner has been shot down in Hamburg at 10.15pm local time on Tuesday night. The CEO of ARENA Box-Promotion was leaving the office of a business partner in Hamburg when two men fired at him three times. The assassins had waited for Öner behind his car when a security light exposed them in the dark and they started the fire. One bullet hit Öner in his left leg before he and his two companions could read more ...

Two-time Olympic gold medalist Guillermo Rigondeaux (2000, 2004) has escaped from Cuba and resurfaced in Miami. No details of his escape are available. The 27-year-old southpaw bantamweight will rejoin former Cuban Olympic teammates Yuriorkis Gamboa, Odlanier Solis and Erislandy Lara under the Arena Box-Promotion banner. read more ...