(Photo Credit: Sebastian Heger) By Scott Gilfoid: WBA “regular” light heavyweight champion Juergen Braehmer (47-2, 35 KOs) will be making a voluntary defense of his title in two months from now against #9 WBA Thomas Oosthuizen (25-0-1, 14 KOs) on March 12 at the Jahnsportforum in Neubrandenburg, Germany.
The 37-year-old Braehmer isn’t the WBA’s top champion. He’s a junior champion or paper champion in the minds of some boxing fans. Unfortunately, Braehmer has been matched like a paper champions since he won the vacant WBA World 175lb title in December 2013 in beating Marcus Oliveira by a 12 round unanimous decision.