Carefully guided Sefer Seferi (Pictured) will have quite a fight on his hands, when he squares off with Adnan Buharalija at the Vienna Prater on June 26 for the vacant WBFed Intercontinental cruiserweight title.
The Swiss-born 31-year-old, now a professional for just over 3 years, may have won his last 8 fights inside, to raise his record to 10 straight wins (9 inside), but unlike Buharalija, he’s not really tested.
Critics may refer to the 9 losses of the Bosnian fighter, but although losing to the likes of Asmir Vojnovic (then with 27 wins and 7 losses) and Sweden’s Atilla Levin (a heavyweight with 31 wins and only 3 losses), Salvatore Eritta (the Italian Champion, unbeaten in 18 fights), all in the “other guys backyard”, he covered himself with glory and in the meantime picked up some valuable lessons in ring generalship.
In July 2005 the pro career of the 29-year-old Buharalija got off to a rocky start, with only 1 win and 1 draw and 5 losses, but slowly he got into the right grove and after 31 fights, he has 21 wins (14 coming by way of knockout) and 2 draws. Add to that the southpaw stance of Buharalija and that illustrates in a nutshell the uphill task for the co-challenger from Burgdorf, Switzerland. However, Seferi is in with more than a punchers chance and that’s what makes it very intriguing. Counting the pro’s and con’s of each fighter for this equally matched title fight, the fans might conclude that it’s not likely go the scheduled distance of 12 rounds.
In the second WBFed Intercontinental championship bout, this one at middleweight, hometown favourite Gogi Knezevic is set to battle it out with German Omar Siala. Watching from ringside will be World Boxing Federation president Howard Goldberg, who makes the trip from Cape Town, South Africa to witness this event personally.
