Klaus-Peter Kohl, promoter of WBA mandatory challenger Ruslan Chagaev, says a lawsuit against the WBA is a possibility. «Ruslan is still the WBA mandatory challenger for world champion David Haye,» Kohl told abendblatt.de. "I’m curious to see how the WBA justifies allowing Haye to take a title unification against Wladimir Klitschko. We will not simply accept this...the WBA sanctioned an eliminator, which Ruslan boxed in and I paid the fees. We demand this to be respected and not circumvented read more ...

WBA middleweight champion Felix Sturm (35-2-1, 15 KOs) scored an impressive seventh round TKO over Ronald Hearns (26-2, 20 KOs) on Saturday night at the Porsche Arena in Stuttgart, Germany. Sturm was in command the first two rounds, but Hearns, the son of ring legend Thomas “The Hitman” Hearns, picked up the pace in round three read more ...

Universum is planning to move to a new training facility in the summer, closing down the famous Universum Gym on Walddörferstraße in Hamburg where many world champions have trained. Lately there have been too many defeats for our boxers, said promoter Klaus-Peter Kohl. We must create more professional training facilities for our athletes so that they can do up-to-date training. Our heart bleeds read more ...

Middleweights Gennadyi Golovkin, WBA # 2, and Milton Nunez, WBA # 15, will clash for the WBA title sometime in July or August in Mexico or USA. Behind this is a long story beginning when Golovkin was named mandatory challenger for Felix Sturm read more ...

Gennady Golovkin (18-0, 15KOs) of Kazakhstan, but living in Germany, is finally getting close to his title shot. The WBA ordered Golovkin to fight former super middleweight champion Anthony Mundine (38-3, 23KOs) of Australia for the vacant WBA middleweight title read more ...

2008 Olympic heavyweight gold medalist and amateur standout Rakhim Chakhkiev has inked a promotional contract with Universum Box-Promotion. Chakhkiev will join the training group of famed Universum trainer Michael Timm at the Universum Gym in Hamburg, and will campaign as a pro in the cruiserweight division read more ...