The "Dancing Destroyer" once more did what he does best. In Halle (Saale) Herbie Hide "destroyed" Rüdiger May from Cologne (Germany) to defend his WBC International cruiserweight championship. Hide had May down once in the first round. After 1:47 minute in round 2 referee Massimo Barrovecchio (Italy) stopped the fight because May was not able to defend himself against Herbie's overwhelming attacks.

Herbie: "I am a warrior. Warriors go to war to kill - and that's what I did! Now I got a message for David Haye: Don't go up to heavyweight! I've been there and done that! Come and fight me! Wherever whenever - I'm ready for you! I'll beat you up like you've never been beaten up before!"

Local hero Steffen Kretschmann won his first pro-title capturing the German international championship by stopping Latvia's Aleksejs Kosobokovs in the 7th. Kosobokovs suffered a bad cut early in the fight which keeped on opening up. In 19 pro-fights the Latvian was stopped for the first time. For Kretsche it was the 11th win in his 11th fight including 10 stoppages.

ARENA-CEO Ahmet Öner: "It's always hard to fight in front of your home crowd because the expectations are extremely high. Steffen started slowly but finished the fight in a good way. To me he is the best German heavyweight and he could already fight and beat anybody in the world except the reigning world champions. I'd like to see him against Luan Krasniqi soon. That would be a good test and help him on his way to the top."

In the third title fight of the night "Super" Sergej Sorokin won the WBC international super lightweight championship by stopping Kanat Kartenbaev in 6.

German cruiserweight prospect Tino Groß scored his 4th win in his 4th pro-fight by knocking out Dariusz Balla from Poland in the 1st. Turkish Olympic silver medallist Atagün Yalcinkaya won his pro-debut against Sergey Tasimov by t.k.o. in the 3rd.

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA

Arena Box Promotions from Hamburg, Germany in association with DeCubas Presents, LLC are proud to announce an all star boxing card to be held on Friday February 22nd.

Doors open 6PM, first fight at 7PM featuring 2004 Olympic Gold Medal Winner from Guantanamo, Cuba and Undefeated Featherweight Yuriorkis  “El Ciclon” Gamboa (8-0, 7 k.o.s, No. 8 WBC) vs. Johnnie Edwards (13-1-1, 7 k.o.s, No. 12 WBA). 

Also on the card is 2004 Gold Medal Winner from Cuba and Undefeated Flyweight Yan Barthelemy (4-0). The other televised fight will be Richard Gutierrez (21-1, No. 10 IBF) from Columbia vs. Miguel Angel Vasquez (20-1, 9 k.o.s). The undercard will feature local fighters Dyah Davis (11-1, Light heavyweight), Kasim Howard (6-0, Heavyweight), and Erik Leander (1-0, Heavyweight).

The fights will be held at Xtreme Indoor Karting in Ft. Lauderdale 5300 Powerline Road, off of I-95 and Commercial Blvd., Phone number for tickets 954-491-6265. Ticket Prices $200/$150/$100/$50/$25

Press Conference: The Official “NIGHT OF THE OLMPIANS” Press Conference will be open to the Public and to the Press on Monday, February 11, 2007, at 12 PM, at the Xtreme Indoor Karting Facility, 5300 Powerline Road.

For more information visit www.nightoftheolympians.com

Radio-Spot for the "NIGHT OF THE OLYMPIANS"

Halle (Saale), Maritim Hotel

"The Dancing Destroyer" is back on the top. Tonight Herbie Hide knocked out unbeaten Russian prospect Mikhail Nasyrov (19-0-0) in round 6 at Maritim Hotel in Halle/Saale. Nasyrov recovered from three knock-downs in the 2nd but was brought down and stopped by one of Herbie?s fast combinations in the 6th.

Right after the victory Herbie called his wife Helen in Las Vegas: "Tell the kids that daddy is the champion again!" To the press he stated "This 25-year-old boy had the chance to become a champion and fought for his life but ?The Dancing Destroyer? stopped him cold. Now I will go on to become World Cruiserweight Champion. Tell Marco Huck and David Haye that I will knock them out the same night if they want!"

Solis defeats 7-foot-1-giant Long

Cuban Olympic gold medallist Odlanier Solis won his first professional title by beating 7-foot-1-giant Julius Long for the WBC Latino Championship. It was hard work for Solis who suffered a cut on the right eyebrow in the 1st but clearly outscored his opponent. The judges scored the 8 rounds 80-72, 80-71, 80-71 in favour of Solis.

Manager Ahmet Öner: "You must not forget that Solis had less than two weeks to prepare for this opponent. All his sparring partners were about 1 foot smaller than Long to prepare him for Frans Botha. Nonetheless he showed a good fight. Those fights help him a lot on his way to the top."

Konstantin Airich new German Interim Heavyweight Champion

Konstantin Airich scored his 8th ko-win in his 8th pro-fight to capture the German Interim Heavyweight Championship. After one knock-down in the 2nd his opponent Turhan Altunkaya quit in the round break due to a hand injury.

More results from Halle:

8 Rounds, Welterweight:
Selcuk Aydin (now 12-0-0) two-winner after 1:03 in the 2nd over Jurijs Boreiko.

10 Rounds, International German Championship, Light Middleweight:
Turgay Uzun (now 24-10-2) decisions Pietro d?Alessio. 

8 Rounds, Heavyweight:
Yakup Saglam (now 8-0-0) tko-winner after 1:10 in the 4th over Romans Dabolins; Dabolins gave up after being knocked down in the 4th. 

4 Rounds, Cruiserweight:
Tino Groß (now 3-0-0) tko-winner over Yuri Lunev after 0:50 in the 2nd and two knock-downs in the first two rounds. 

4 Rounds, Heavyweight:
Edmund Gerber (now 3-0-0) decisions Aleh Dubiaha. 

6 Rounds, Heavyweight:
Denis Bakhtov (now 26-5-0) decisions Corey Sanders; Sanders had Bakhtov down in the 5th. 

4 Rounds, Super Middleweight:
Sebastian Sonntag (now 3-0-0) decisions Alexander Lykov.