"We know the weight problems from Arthur Abraham, who vacated his IBF Middleweight Title to join the Super Six World Boxing Classic," coach Ulli Wegner said. "All the diets really affect your performance in a negative way. I spoke to Karo about it. Since we have a very strong line-up at super-middleweight, we decided that he will challenge at light heavyweight in the future, " fightnews.com quotes Ulli Wegner.

Europe Champion in super medium weight Armenian boxer Karo Mura left the title vacant EBU to move up to light heavyweight (79.3 kg).