By Per Ake Persson
Spanish veteran and former IBF super bantamweight champ Kiko Martinez (39-8-2) has relinquished the EBU featherweight title he won last year from Marc Vidal.
As to why, well, word from Maravilla Box is there is quote a "very big fight in the US" waiting. More to come!
Austrian middleweights Marcos Nader (20-1-1) and Gogi Knezevic (34-8-1) clash April 13 in Vienna and it is billed as "the Battle of Vienna".
Nader was formerly with Team Sauerland but returned to the amateurs after a loss to Emanuele Blandamura in 2014. He returned to the pros last year though.
As for the now 39-year veteran Knezevic he turned pro in 2004 and was in fact GBU world champ back in 2012 and have fought for a number of other titles as well.
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French middleweight champ Diego Natchoo (18-1-4) will defend the title against veteran Michel Mothmora (30-28-2) April 19 in Agde. It´s a rematch and Natchoo won the first fight and is 8-1-1 in his last ten while Mothmora who appears to be nearing the end of a long and solid career is 3-5-2.
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Hard-punching and talented French light heavyweight Mathieu Bauderlique (16-1) takes on Moroccan, based in Spain, Mustapha Chadlioui (12-4-2) with the vacant WBA Continental title at stake.
This matchup is one of three headliners on Asloum Event´s show March 28 in Lille. In other action lightweight Yvan Mendy (41-5-1) is in against Belgian Hakim Ben Ali (21-6) in a WBA Intercontinental title fight and female super feather Licia Boudersa (13-2-2) square off against Djemilla Gontaruk (14-5-2) also from Belgium in what for now is a non-title fight (Boudersa lost her last fight but is still WBFed champ)..