Rybacki rides to Hennessy's rescue by Ian McNeilly May 8th 2008

Hennessy Sports today announced a change of opponent for Carl Froch on Saturday night at the Trent FM Arena Nottingham, live on ITV1. Carl's first replacement opponent Rubin Williams was unable to leave the US in time to challenge Carl in the scheduled twelve round International super-middleweight contest due to personal problems.  Hennessy Sports can confirm that Unbeaten Polish fighter Albert Rybacki (15 wins, 8 KO) has agreed to fight Froch on Saturday night. Rybacki who was already preparing for a fight jumped at the opportunity and will be flying into the UK later today. Rybacki has already signed contracts. Carl Froch said: “It's always difficult to fight an unbeaten fighter as he doesn't know how to lose and obviously he will put everything on line as he could gatecrash the world title but I am in prime condition and looking forward to fighting on Saturday night.” Most boxing fans will understand the difficult position the promoters have been put in in this instance and Rybacki's record looks decent on paper - especially as it includes a ninth-round stoppage of Tony Dodson back in 2002.  But he's only had three fights in the intervening five and a half years, none of which were against world class opposition.  But, beggars can't be choosers and the old chestnut 'That's boxing' has been heard several times this week. As revealed first on BBN, Hennessy Sports was yesterday informed that John Fewkes will be unable to fight John Murray for the English lightweight title due to suffering from gastroenteritis. We are in negotiations with new opponents and further information will be released shortly. Weigh in Featuring Junior Witter, Timothy Bradley Carl Froch, Albert Rybacki  John Murray  Adnan Amar, Mark Lloyd Paul David & Tyrone Wright To be held at the Alea Casino Nottingham on Friday 9th May @4pm 108 Upper Parliament Street, Nottingham, NG1 6LF Please Note: No under 18's will be allowed entrance, anyone who feels they look under 21 please bring Photo ID WBC Light Welterweight Championship of the World 12 x3 Champion  Mandatory Challenger Junior Witter (Bradford, England) vs Timothy Bradley (USA) Super Middleweight International Contest 12 x 3 Carl Froch (Nottingham, England) vs Albert Rybacki (Katowice, Poland) English Light Weight Championship 10 x 3 John Murray (Manchester) vs TBA English Welterweight Championship 10 x 3 Adnan Amar (Nottingham) vs Mark Lloyd (Telford) Midlands Area Light Heavy Weight Championship 10 x 3 Paul David (Sheffield) vs Tyrone Wright (Nottingham) Welterweight 6 x 3 John O'Donnell (Shepherd's Bush) Billy Smith (Worcester) Light Welterweight 6 x 3 Naddem Siddique (Bradford) vs Alex Brew (Ghana) Light Welterweight 4 x 3 Jack Perry (Derby) vs Tom Glover (Maldon) Light Welterweight 4 x 3 Nathan McIntosh (Nottingham) vs Martin Gordon (Dudley) Light Welterweight 4 x3 Dave Ryan (Derby) vs Carl Allen (W'Hampton) Middleweight 4 x 3 Keiron Gray (Telford) vs Lee Duncan (Sheffield) Tickets can be purchased from Trent FM Arena Nottingham 24hr Ticket Hotline on 08444 124 624 or via www.nottingham-arena.com

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