KUZIEMSKI BEFORE A SERIOUS TRIAL

A would-be WBO champion, Aleksy Kuziemski (18-1, 4 KO) will have to prove his importance in Universum Box-Promotion group, facing Igor Mikhalkin (11-0, 7 KO) on May 22 in Rostock. It will be a twentieth professional performance for the 32-year-old Pole, highly rated in light heavweight rankings (WBA #8, IBF #8, WBO#14) and the second one after the lost fight for the WBO belt against Juergen Braehmer. The main event of the evening in Rostock is the WBA official eliminator between Ruslan Chagaev and Kali Meehan.

Kuziemski, the bronze medallist of the 2003 World Amateur Championships, will come face-to-face  against 24-year-old Mikhalkin who seems to be a really demanding rival. The powerfully punching left-hander from Russia was the European junior champion in 2003. As far as the professional career, the Russian can pride himself on the impressive TKO in 2009 on DeAndrey Abron who was previously merely decisioned by a long-standing WBO champion, Zsolt Erdei.

- He's a hard rival but I only look for hard contests – that's a short comment of the Polish light heavyweight. The fight has not been oficially confirmed by Universum yet but it has to be announced within two next weeks.