Traktor is now also heavily involved with the professionals

The conclusion was brief, but quite accurate: “We can also do professional boxing,” said Jens Hadler in a calm voice, “and, in my opinion, pretty well.” The last of a total of 16 pugilists had just left the boxing ring, where Hadler, who is chairman of the BC Traktor Schwerin advisory board, gave his satisfied summary.

For the first time, Traktor organized a professional boxing evening, with a total of eight fights taking place in which four boxers celebrated their debut as professionals. Each one was successful, as the fight evening should show. For some of the boxers it was the farewell to amateur existence and the first big step as professional fighters.

However, others remain loyal to Olympic boxing as amateurs, even as professionals; the rules at least allow that. And that’s exactly why BC Traktor came up with the idea of ​​expanding the successful work with and among amateurs that the club has been doing for decades with the addition of professional boxing. After completing the first few steps, you can undoubtedly say that it has worked extremely well so far.

Radovan is hoping for a title fight

So with the BC tractor you have arrived at professional boxing. Denis Radovan, who fought the main fight of the evening (against Kasim Gashi), arrived there for several years. The Cologne-based team fought 18 professional fights before the fight in Schwerin’s Palmberg Arena, he had won 17 by then and one ended in a draw. Fight number 19 was a pretty short one – the 32-year-old decided the fight in his favor at the beginning of the second round. And was visibly relieved: “I’m happy and happy to have won here.”

After all, Radovan had had a year and a half break from wrestling and, after his successful return to the rope square, was now dreaming of bigger tasks. “I hope to be able to box for a title soon. And maybe this title fight can be held in Schwerin. That would have been okay,” said Radovan, who received plenty of applause after these words.

Kevin Boakye-Schumann also received plenty of applause, like many other amateur boxers from the Traktor Bundesliga squad that evening. The 27-year-old recently made his (victorious) professional debut in Hamburg, also won fight number two early in Schwerin and now sees his future exclusively with the professionals. “It is with a heavy heart that I have to announce that I will no longer fight as an amateur,” said Boakye-Schumann, who is no longer a Bundesliga fighter for Schwerin. Nevertheless, his heart still beats for the state capital: “Once a tractor driver, always a tractor driver,” says the new boxing hope among the professionals.

Just as Boakye-Schumann, Melvin Kahrimanovic, Vladislav Hitlin and David Gkevorgkian (all Traktor Bundesliga boxers) emerged from the ring early as winners, Daniel Meyer and Alen Rahimic demonstrated their class with deserved point victories. They have all tasted blood in the professional camp, just like BC Traktor Schwerin, which was already thinking out loud about a repeat on the professional premiere evening.