Enzo Maccarinelli

(Picture: Team Sauerland) By Scott Gilfoid: WBA World light heavyweight champion Juergen Braehmer (42-2, 31 KO’s) will be coming into his title defense against Enzo Maccarinelli (38-6, 30 KO’s) tonight with an 11-fight winning streak in their fight at the Stadthalle, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Braehmer, a natural light heavyweight, has looked good since his loss to Hugo Hernan Garay in 2008.

Braehmer never bothered to avenge the loss, but he really didn’t need to because Garay’s career immediately imploded with losses to Gabriel Campillo and Chris Henry. Braehmer doesn’t see the 6’4” ex-cruiserweight champion Maccarinelli as a real light heavyweight, as he sees him as someone who has melted down from 200lbs to fight in the 175lb division. Braehmer thinks the loss of weight will hurt Maccarinelli even though he’s been fighting at light heavyweight for over a year.

(Photo credit: Team Sauerland) By Scott Gilfoid: Former WBO cruiserweight champion Enzo Maccarinelli (38-6, 30 KO’s) towered over the shorter WBA World light heavyweight champion Juergen Braehmer (42-2, 31 KO’s) in their final press conference today before their clash this Saturday night, April 5th at the Stadthalle, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Maccarinelli, 33, sees this as a fight that will end in a knockout, and I totally agree with him in that belief.

I’m just not so sure that it’s going to go in Enzo’s favor, though. I hope for his sake that his trainer Gary Lockett has been working on improving his defense, because he’s going to need it on Saturday if he’s to last long enough to test his own power on Braehmer’s chin.

By Scott Gilfoid: Gary Lockett, the trainer for Enzo Maccarinelli (38-6, 30 KO’s), thinks he could knock WBA World light heavyweight champion Juergen Braehmer (42-2, 31 KO’s) out this Saturday night as soon as he lands a big shot at the Stadthalle, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.

Maccarinelli has a 3-fight winning streak against Courtney Fry, Ovill McKenzie and Carl Wild. Those guys aren’t anywhere near being in the same class as Braehmer. What this means is that Maccarinelli’s empty wins are no indication that he’s going to be competitive with Braehmer, or that he’s going to have a chance of beating him if he lands something big.

By Scott Gilfoid:< WBA World light heavyweight champion Juergen Braehmer (42-2, 31 KO’s) will be defending his title this Saturday night against a fighter who could be at the last chance saloon in 33-year-old Enzo Maccarinelli (38-6, 30 KO’s) at the Stadthalle, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Maccarinelli, #7 WBA, seems to have picked out based on him having previously held the WBO cruiserweight strap from 2006-2008 until losing it to David Haye by a 2nd round knockout in March of 2008. Not long ago, Maccarinelli was losing his fights left and right, but he’s finally turned things around with three straight wins over little known domestic level competition. It’s good that Enzo has turned his career around, because he’s going to need to be at 100 percent this Saturday night if he’s to beat Braehmer to take his WBA title. To be sure, Braehmer’s not in the class of guys like Adonis Stevenson and Sergey Kovalev, but he’s plenty tough for a fighter like Maccarinelli.

By Scott Gilfoid: After a six-year dry spell former WBO cruiserweight champion Enzo Maccarinelli (38-6, 30 KO’s) will finally get another crack at a world title against WBA light heavyweight champion Juergen Braehmer (42-2, 31 KO’s) on April 5th at the Stadthalle, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Maccarinelli, 33, has been relegated to the Euro level for the past 6 years since losing his WBO cruiserweight title to David Haye by a 2nd round TKO in 2008.

Maccarinelli has looked pretty horrible in knockout loses to Ola Afolabi, Denis Lebedev, Alexander Frenkel, and Ovill McKenzie. But after all those defeats, Maccarinelli has clawed his way into a title shot against Braehmer on April 5th, and this is his big chance to win a strap, albeit against a fighter who many boxing fans see as a paper champion.

By Scott Gilfoid: WBA World light heavyweight champion Juergen Braehmer (42-2, 31 KO’s) will be making his first title defense of his WBA 175 lb title on April 5th against 33-year-old former WBO cruiserweight champion Enzo Maccarinelli (38-6, 30 KO’s) at the Stadthalle, Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Brahmer, 35, recently captured the vacant WBA title in beating little known fighter Marcus Oliveira by a dull 12 round unanimous decision last December. Oliveira, 34, had gotten ranked high enough to fight for the title based on a resume filled with less than stellar opposition.

I really don’t rate Maccarinelli. I still see him as a fighter who is pretty much past it. He still has good power, but he’s someone that is a knockout waiting to happen anytime he’s in with someone halfway good. Maccarinelli might actually win this fight if he can put his punches together, and throw enough shots to get a decision or maybe a stoppage.