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Kohl and Sauerland agreed. Fight will be shown on ZDF.

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007 wrote:Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

haha, sleep on and wait for the next British guy to fight for that title. 2006?

you guys just cannot help taking the piss out of each other can you????

Hoffman should be too slow for Krasniqi who should roll to a 12 round points victory......

Hoffman of course was beaten by then British fighter Henry Akinwande

Not taking the piss I just think this will be a dull fight. Hoffman is awful to watch this has a 12 round snoozefest written all over it.

Dont you think Krasniqi v Skelton would be more of a spectacle? I do.

007 wrote:Not taking the piss I just think this will be a dull fight. Hoffman is awful to watch this has a 12 round snoozefest written all over it.

it will you are right!!! But you know how sensitive our friend BuBi is!!! :)

and regarding Skelton I dont reckon Warren would/could get him that fight

knockout wrote:

007 wrote:Not taking the piss I just think this will be a dull fight. Hoffman is awful to watch this has a 12 round snoozefest written all over it.

it will you are right!!! But you know how sensitive our friend BuBi is!!! :)

and regarding Skelton I dont reckon Warren would/could get him that fight

Unless he can manoeuvre Skelton into the #1 spot. Mind you he seems to steer clear of the Euro title these days in favour of the shitty world titles.

Krasniqi's last defence is showing on Eurosport tonight.

Hoffmann is definetely awful to watch but hard to fight. he never got koed, not even by Vitali Klitschko. he has an iron head and a good fitness like any german boxer. you have to outbox him in 12 rounds. Skelton is #4 in the EBU. he must beat beat Wladi Klitschko, Samil Sam or Danny Williams to get a better ranking. A fight vs. Sam would be nice. the winner would be #1 contender. If Luan would win it would be his last EBU-fight. his aim for 2005 is to win a world title. this is not impossible.

007 wrote:

knockout wrote:

007 wrote:Not taking the piss I just think this will be a dull fight. Hoffman is awful to watch this has a 12 round snoozefest written all over it.

it will you are right!!! But you know how sensitive our friend BuBi is!!! :)

and regarding Skelton I dont reckon Warren would/could get him that fight

Unless he can manoeuvre Skelton into the #1 spot. Mind you he seems to steer clear of the Euro title these days in favour of the shitty world titles.

nowadays it seems it is harder to get a EBU-title-fight than a WBC- or WBO-title-fight

BubiScholz wrote:Hoffmann is definetely awful to watch but hard to fight. he never got koed, not even by Vitali Klitschko. he has an iron head and a good fitness like any german boxer. you have to outbox him in 12 rounds. Skelton is #4 in the EBU. he must beat beat Wladi Klitschko, Samil Sam or Danny Williams to get a better ranking. A fight vs. Sam would be nice. the winner would be #1 contender. If Luan would win it would be his last EBU-fight. his aim for 2005 is to win a world title. this is not impossible.

Blah blah, Rene Monse knocked him down in their first fight. This fight has taken ages to set up, this is Luans mandatory and it has been longer than 6months. Its between Samil Samm and Skelton as to who gets the next mandatory IMO. As was pointed out, Hoffman has lost to the might of Henry Akiwande. Will be intersting to see who is chosen to fight for the vacant title if Luan does vacate it.

Hoffman doesn't deserve the shot (not saying he up there in European terms but given the way Akinwande outclassed him recently). Laun should win this comfortably, might even force a late stoppage.

Krasniqi is on euro now. higlight was cing julius francis

stujones wrote:Hoffman doesn't deserve the shot (not saying he up there in European terms but given the way Akinwande outclassed him recently). Laun should win this comfortably, might even force a late stoppage.

Akinwande fights for Nigeria. So it was a non-EBU-fight. it had no influence on his EBU-ranking. he is only the mandatory because both Klitschkos won´t fight for the EBU-title.

BubiScholz wrote:

stujones wrote:Hoffman doesn't deserve the shot (not saying he up there in European terms but given the way Akinwande outclassed him recently). Laun should win this comfortably, might even force a late stoppage.

Akinwande fights for Nigeria. So it was a non-EBU-fight. it had no influence on his EBU-ranking. he is only the mandatory because both Klitschkos won´t fight for the EBU-title.

Not saying that, what I am saying is that he done very little before Akinwande and lost badly to him. He deserves to be in Europes top ten, but a mandatory? I would argue that Skelton with victories over Sprott, Francis and Holden is more deserving.

stujones wrote:

BubiScholz wrote:

stujones wrote:Hoffman doesn't deserve the shot (not saying he up there in European terms but given the way Akinwande outclassed him recently). Laun should win this comfortably, might even force a late stoppage.

Akinwande fights for Nigeria. So it was a non-EBU-fight. it had no influence on his EBU-ranking. he is only the mandatory because both Klitschkos won´t fight for the EBU-title.

Not saying that, what I am saying is that he done very little before Akinwande and lost badly to him. He deserves to be in Europes top ten, but a mandatory? I would argue that Skelton with victories over Sprott, Francis and Holden is more deserving.

Agreed sometimes you have to think is boxing 100% fair

stujones wrote:

BubiScholz wrote:

stujones wrote:Hoffman doesn't deserve the shot (not saying he up there in European terms but given the way Akinwande outclassed him recently). Laun should win this comfortably, might even force a late stoppage.

Akinwande fights for Nigeria. So it was a non-EBU-fight. it had no influence on his EBU-ranking. he is only the mandatory because both Klitschkos won´t fight for the EBU-title.

Not saying that, what I am saying is that he done very little before Akinwande and lost badly to him. He deserves to be in Europes top ten, but a mandatory? I would argue that Skelton with victories over Sprott, Francis and Holden is more deserving.

you´re right. i always wondered why Hoffmann is that high ranked in Europe. But this has been so since the Klitschko-fight. since then he hardly lost positions.......