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It was today announced at a big
press conference in Ljubljana
that Slovenia’s former IBF World
Welterweight champion Jan
Zaveck, AKA Dejan Zavec, will
attempt to become a two-weight
world titlist when he challenges
reigning WBF World Super
Welterweight ruler Sasha
Yengoyan on April 11 at Tabor
Hall in Maribor.
Zaveck, 34-3 (19), who spend
much of his professional career
in Germany where he made his
debut in 2003, won the IBF crown
in 2009 in South Africa, beating
Isaac Hlatshwayo, and made three
successful defenses before
losing it to Andre Berto in
America in 2011.
Now, three and a half years
later, he gets a chance to win a
second world championship in his
home-country, and, while he is
already working out at the Dejan
Zavec Gym in Ptuj, he plans to
leave no stone unturned in his
preparations, and travels to
Germany this coming Monday to
start full training camp with
coach Dirk Dzemski.
“This
is a very hard fight for me”,
said Zavec at the press
conference. “But it is a massive
opportunity, and I am very
pleased that I can now hopefully
become world champion again by
defeating one of the best in the
world.”
“I
don’t see any weaknesses in
Yengoyan, and he is very
unpredictable and aggressive. I
am prepared for the fact that he
is taller than me, and I will
have to be at my best and fight
smart to beat him.”
Armenian-born Belgian Sasha
Yengoyan, 31-1-1 (21), will be
making his first defense of the
WBF world title he won last
October in his hometown Ghent,
dethroning then title-holder
Anderson Clayton, and is proving
to be a true world champion by
agreeing to fight in Zaveck´s
back-yard.
The fight will be televised by
TVSLO Sport, and promoter Tomaz
Barada revealed that around 4500
tickets, priced 20, 25, 35 and
50 Euros, will go on sale Monday
March 2nd, and that a sell-out
crowd is realistic:
“We
have been very lucky to attract
a quality world champion such as
Yengoyan to Slovenia”, said
Barada. “This is a great
success, but also a very
demanding task for Dejan. Also,
its a very expensive event to
put together, but if Dejan wins
it will all be worth it.”
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