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“Pannonia Fight Storm”: Top-class boxing comes to Eisenstadt

With the “Pannonia Fight Storm” brings real professional boxing to Burgenland on September 14th. Boxing gala presents eleven fights, with champions of tomorrow and international professionals. It's all happening in one go in the ice rink in Eisenstadt, which will be transformed into a fighting arena.

EISENSTADT. As the first of its kind, the boxing event promisesPannonia Battle StormTop-class boxing in the state capital. The venue is the Sports center at Bad Kissingen-Platz, whose ice rink will become a boxing arena for the fight night. A ring measuring almost seven by seven metres will be placed in the middle of the ice rink. “The best conditions for hosting professional fights,” says Werner LederhasChairman of the non-profit association Boxteam Vienna Eisenstadt and organizer.

Boxing elite as guests

When the gong rings promptly at 7pm to open the first fight, things happen in quick succession: 22 athletes There will be eight newcomer and three professional fights in front of an audience, from junior to professional level, from featherweight to heavyweight and from junior to general class. The six professional boxers will fight for clubs from five nations under the supervision of the Austrian Fist Fighting Association. Among them is Austria's youngest professional boxer.

The previously unbeaten Denise Stonaev will be boxing her first fight with a professional license in the only women's fight of the evening – against number 29 in the European rankings. The ring announcer will be none other than the director of the World Kickboxing Federation, Fritz Exenberger.

The organizing team meets to present the program. | Photo: Boxteam Wien Eisenstadt

Young talent from Eisenstadt

The talented player is counting on home advantage at the “Pannonia Fight Storm” New signing Fabio RabelThe 14-year-old Eisenstadt resident will fight his first boxing match in Eisenstadt to collect his first points on his way to a professional license. Coach Werner Lederhas relies on professionalism and Youth work: “Sport has a high social value, especially in relation to young people. Boxing teaches values ​​such as fairness and discipline. That is why we pay particular attention to the young talent.”

Burgenland with potential

The pilot project “Pannonia Fight Storm” is intended to whet the appetite for more in the future. “There are already concrete ideas to also hold fights in Kickboxing “Next autumn, an international or intercontinental title fight could also be held in Eisenstadt,” says Peter Pospichalfrom the Boxteam Vienna, with over 40 years of experience.

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