By Allan Fox: #7 WBC Manuel Charr (25-1, 15 KO’s) will be facing Kevin Johnson (29-5-1, 14 KO’s) next month in a scheduled 12 round bout at the elekom Dome, in Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Charr will be defending a number of his minor level heavyweight title straps in the fight. This is a fight between two of the former WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko’s previous title challengers. Both Charr and Johnson were easily beaten by Vitali in the past, and both of them have seen their careers stuck in quicksand since then.
Charr has won his last four fights since his 4th round TKO loss to Vitali in 2012, but he also also hasn’t been fighting quality opposition and you’ll still be able to say this after April 12th. In his last four fights, Charr has beaten Konstantin Airich, Yakup Saglam, Oleksiy Maksim and Denis Baktov. Those are weak opponents.