Arena Box-Promotion held the first professional boxing show in Turkey in almost 30 years on October 19,2007.
The historic event featured fighters like Turkish welterweight prospect Selcuk Aydin and Turkish hero Sinan Samil Sam and Oliver McCall, who headlined the main event for the WBC International Championship.
The sold-out show in Ankara caught the public’s interest so Caner Doganeli, president of the Turkish amateur boxing board, decided to found a professional boxing federation supported by promoter Arena Box promoter Ahmet Öner.
Now Öner and Doganeli can reap the fruit of their hard labour. Tonight (Feb 15, 2008) the Turkish professional boxing commission will be officially founded with a big gala in Istanbul. Besides celebration, music and good food there will, of course, be boxing bouts at the opening ceremony featuring ARENA’s Turkish stars in the following bouts:
Heavyweight:
Sinan Samil Sam (28-4-0) vs. Mazur Ali (5-0-0)
Light Heavyweight:
Firat Karagöllü (6-0-0) vs. Andrey Tylilyuk (2-27-2)
Middleweight:
Mustafa Karagöllü (10-1-0) vs. Ihar Filonau (7-8-0)
Welterweight:
„Mini-Tyson“ Selcuk Aydin (12-0-0) vs. Leonti Vorontsuk (16-29-1)
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