Sanders bombs out Vara...

Former WBO heavyweight champion corrie Sanders made a successful return to the ring in Freizeitarena Sölden, Austria on Tuesday night with a second round stoppage win over outclassed Russian Alexei Varakin. The 38 year-old South African floored Varakin four times before the referee stopped the bout after 1.59 of the second round.


In the co main event the 1000 plus crowd witnessed Taras Bidenko scored a seventh round technical win against stablemate Konstantin Onofrei. The 24 year-old Bidenko won the WBO Intercontinental and German International titles for his efforts.

Other results from the Universum promoted card

Super Middleweight: Karoly Balzsay w pts 6 Ronnie Daniels
Super Middleweight: Lukas Wilaschek rsf 3 Dariusz Guzek
Light Heavyweight: Gerry Ahmedov w rsf 5 Radek Seman
Heavyweight: Denis Boytsov w rsf 2 Oleg Tsukanov
Super Lightweight: Willy Blain w pts 4 Piotr Niesporek
Super Welterweight: Sebastian Zbik w rsf 3 Cenk Uluk
Heavyweight: Ruslan Chagaev w rsf 2 Tommy Connelly

December 14, 2004