On Tuesday, January 28, there was a launch press conference as Harlem Eubank is set to face Tyrone McKenna in March. Boxing Promoter Kalle Sauerland spoke to Henry Bryant about the Sussex Boxers tough year and this bout.
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00:002024 we know for Haarlem was a difficult year, will he fight, won't he fight, what's going on?
00:06First of all how do you deal with that as a promoter and also how did Haarlem deal with
00:10that? As a promoter you try and stabilise things pretty quick, as fast as you can.
00:16The issue is often when a fighter believes that something's going to happen and you've seen it
00:21before and not saying the fighter doesn't listen but it's a team of advisors around him as well,
00:26you sort of have to let it play out and we let the situation play out and then eventually we
00:35realised it's not happening but because of the time we lost and if you look at his record before
00:42it's very very consistent fights and he had to take a back to business fight
00:50um at the end of last year which you know showed as well that it was required, it was rusty,
00:56wasn't great um at the same time I think our matchmaking wasn't great either, I'll hold
01:02our hand up to that, I think the opponent didn't really look like the opponent we saw on the tapes
01:07but that can happen um but we're back and that's the I think the statement is then what you do next
01:15and you're up at a level and you're up at a level with uh with a live live fight and you know but
01:20this is by far uh the biggest name on his cv so far it's and and the the boring thing for us as
01:28team Eubank is we're not the biggest name on his cv you know he's got Regis Progres, Katchel,
01:34he's coming off a crazy amazing win um and this guy wants a tear up you know he's not coming here
01:43for some payday the fact we've got the IBF uh title on the line now as well for a top 10 position
01:51make McKenna's morning runs that little bit easier. In terms of this fight in Brighton as well
01:56how much would that mean to Harlem to have that victory on his belt in front of the fans here in
02:02Brighton? Fighters have always had fortresses over the years, places where they can come to for big
02:07fights and I think the success of the first event this is very different this is a bigger event
02:14tougher opponents there's there's there's stuff at stake now as well physical stuff as they like
02:19the place in the top 10 in the world rankings leads to a world title shot down the road so it's
02:25but it's at the end of your career when you look back it's like where where were where were where
02:30were my big fights and I think we've identified Brighton as a place that you know Harlem
02:37you know you ask Harlem where you're from he's Brighton born and bred so he's a proper boy
02:45yeah and that makes it authentic and that makes it much easier to to develop um to develop a fortress
02:54I remember when we promoted David A he was from London but we made sort of the MEN the fortress
03:00you know yeah um strange I don't know why London it was never it was we always liked to go to
03:06Manchester um great city to promote in as well but Brighton hasn't been on the map despite having
03:12that obvious link to boxing with uh with the Eubank family so I think that you know that's
03:18something that we've identified it's worked and I hope we can keep growing.