After a one-year lay-off WBA middleweight super champion Felix Sturm returns to the ring on September 4th to defend his title against Giovanni Lorenzo from the Dominican Republic at Cologne's Lanxess Arena in Germany. It will be Sturm's first fight since splitting up with former promoter Universum. SAT.1 will broadcast the show live in Germany and as online live stream on ran.de.

ARENA Sports-Promotion and promoter Ahmet Öner will present some of their young and hungry German prospects on the undercard. IBF intercontinental middleweight champion Benjamin Simon (18-1, 17 kos) steps into the ring against durable Colombian Juan Camilo Novoa. "I have been working hard for this chance", says Simon. "I want to prove that I am worthy international champion and ready for a shot at a world title."

"Benjamin has improved a lot in the last year" adds promoter and manager Robert Rolle. "We have been working hard to get a title shot. I hope that one of the world champions will accept 'IronBen' as challenger. Maybe we even get a chance to face Sturm in his next fight."

Besides Simon Ahmer Öner will present cruiserweight Patrick Dobroschi and super middleweight Mike Keta at the show in Cologne. In another super middleweight clash Ronny Slomke and Dennis Ronert face off in an all German encounter.

"We are looking for young and hungry German fighters who have championship potential", says promoter Ahmet Öner. "I am convinced that some of the guys we will send into the ring on September 4th got what it takes to become main event fighters one day."

On June 5th 2010 ARENA and Ahmet Öner will present the first professional boxing world championship in Turkey when Selcuk Aydin fights for the vacant WBC silver title.

Aydin, the "Thunderstorm from the Black Sea" ("Karadeniz Firtinasi") will have the chance to become the second ARENA world champion after Cuban featherweight phenomenon Yuriorkis Gamboa. And, of course, Selcuk is thrilled to fight for the world title in front of his Turkish home crowd.

"I am very happy and extremely proud to have this once in a lifetime opportunity", states Aydin. "I promise all my fans that I will be in the shape of my lifetime and make sure that the world title belt remains in Turkey for a long time."

Aydin is preparing for the fight in Miami with Ismael Salas who coached Gamboa to his world title in April 2009.

Former world champion Juan Carlos Gomez wants to go back to the top

German hard-hitters Konstantin Airich and Robert Woge on the card as well

Eurosport to broadcast the show live from 9.00pm

On April 9th ARENA will present its international stars in Schwerin for the first time. Former WBC cruiserweight champion Juan Carlos Gomez wants to fight his way back to another title shot in the heavyweight division one year after losing to Vitali Klitschko in Stuttgart.

"I still have the goal to become the first Cuban world heavyweight champion in the history", states Gomez. "Lots of people said that I was finished after losing to Vitali but I feel that there's still a lot left in me. The Black Panther is back - It's Showtime!"

Besides Gomez the fans in Schwerin will get to see some of the hardest hitting guys in Germany. Heavyweight contender "Sandman" Konstantin Airich faces Russian veteran Alexey Varakin and light heavyweight prospect Robert Woge will have his second fight in only two weeks after knocking out Valery Gubins from Latvia in his pro-debut last Saturday in Hamburg.

There will be 10 fights in total. Eurosport will broadcast the show from Schwerin live starting at 9.00pm German time.