Agit Kabayel is again Germany’s “Boxer of the Year”. The heavyweight prevailed in the traditional and prestigious choice of the specialist magazine “Boxport” for 2024 with a huge head start in front of Simon Zachenhuber (super middleweight) and Abbas Baraou (semi-medium weight).
It is not surprising that Agit Kabayel landed in 1st place as in the previous year. The 32 -year -old only played a fight in 2024 – but on the greatest possible stage.
In the supporting program of Superstars Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury, Kabayel in Riyadh beat the high-level Cuban Franz Sanchez in Runde Sieben in a WBC World Cup.
On February 22, the “Leber-King” from the pot in Riyadh meets the Chinese colossus Zhang Zhoei, with the “interim” title of the WBC at the game. The winner is a compulsory challenger of heavyweight king Usyk.
“They are exciting times. Time to write German boxing history. I want Max Schmeling to finally have his peace of mind, that one finally follows him,” emphasized Kabayel sport.de His goal of becoming the first German heavyweight champion since the legendary Schmeling (1930!).
Boxing: Kabayel is targeting Zhang’s liver, but …
In an interview with the “boxing”, the Bochumer commented on his upcoming fight against legal interpreters Zhang.
“In the training camp, he will now be careful to keep his liver nicely covered,” he said on his paradise. He has to be against the 1.98 -meter -tall and almost 130 -kilo chunks from the Middle Kingdom, of course, “of course be careful that Zhang does not try to set a counter when I target his liver.”
For the boxers of the year, readers of the magazine and an expert jury Nina Meinke, who had crowned the world champion in feather weight in 2024. Nina Rupprecht, who combined the World Cup Guards, united three world associations in the nuclear weight and wrote German boxing history in the nuclear weight.
Nelvie Tiafak (bronze winner from Paris) and Maxi Klätzer won the amateurs.