Oleg Maskaev, 39, still hopes to win back the champion title. The fight on the Red Square against Robert Hawkins will be the first step en route to it.
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Maskaev to Fight In Front Of Kremlin
The Ring Star Boxing Show on the Red Square is slated for September 6, when Moscow celebrates the City Day. One of the main participants is famous heavyweight Oleg Maskaev, who will fight with U.S. Robert Hawkins.
Maskaev’s participation in the Red Square boxing show was confirmed by Yuri Fedorov, who heads Yuri Fedorov Sports Lab. Promoting Company. The start of that company’s business dates to December of 2006, when it arranged the bout of Oleg Maskaev and Peter Okhello of Uganda in Moscow.
According to Fedorov, the address of Amateur Boxing President, Federal Guards Service Chief Evgeny Murov to Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov was the decisive factor in favor of arranging the Ring Star Boxing Show on the Red Square.
Murov urged Luzhkov to add it to the agenda of the City Day celebrations “to promote boxing in our country and advertise the forthcoming Amateur Boxing World Cup.” Moscow hosts the tournament December 5 through 15 in Megasport complex.
An arena will be built on the Red Square September 6, Fedorov said, specifying that the VIP stands for the guests and participants of Beijing 2008 Olympics will be intstalled around it. The entrance will be free and some 25,000 will watch the show. One of Russia’s central TV channels will broadcast the event, and for the first time, the Internet users will see it in live air.
The junior boxing team of Russia that is to stand for the country during 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore will open the show. Then, the crowd will see the best profession boxers of Russia. Ex-heavyweight champ of WBC, Oleg Maskaev, is expected to fight U.S. Robert Hawkins, and their bout is the obvious highlight of that day.
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