Euro News: Cecilia Braekhus planning star-studded send-off in Norway

The newly crowned WBC interim super-welterweight champion Cecilia Braekhus is reportedly planning a final fight to close out her long career.

According to Norwegian publication NRK, Braekhus (38-2-1)  will fight on March 8, 2025 at the Unity Arena in Fornebu, Norway.

The guest list, reports the same publication, will include her gym-mate and good friend Halle Berry, Mike Tyson, and Oscar De La Hoya. 

Braekhus, 42, turned professional in 2007 and won her first major title in 2009 when she beat Dane Vinni Skovgaard in what proved to be one of the toughest fights of her career. She dominated the female welterweight division for over ten years before losing to Jessica McCaskill.

She has been based in the US for the most recent chapter of her career, and if her farewell fight is finalised it will prove her first fight in Norway since 2017.

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The Australian-Swedish super flyweight Linn Sandstrom (8-3-3) will not fight Daniela Asenjo, as previously announced by Armand Boxing Promotion. Asenjo, who lost to Gabriela Fundora in a fight for the IBF flyweight title, is sidelined with an injury. Replacing Asenjo is the little-known Bolivian Carla Camila Campos (5-2).

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The Italian great Primo Zamparini has died at the age of 85. Zamparini won a silver medal at bantamweight at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, and the same year also won gold in the military world championships. In 1961 Zamaprini won a bronze medal in the European championships.

He turned professional in 1961 and went 16-6-6 fighting in Italy and Australia before retiring in 1966.