Oliver Zaren, still unbeaten, rolls by Joseph Maigwisya in Copenhagen

COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Super middleweight Oliver Zaren headlined here Saturday at the Hotel Crown Plaza in his first 10-rounder, winning a wide unanimous decision over Joseph Maigwisya.

Scores were 100-88, 99-90 and 100-89.

“The Great Dane” Zaren, from nearby Roskilde, was cut by his right eye after a clash of heads in the ninth. No longer trained by Mikkel Kessler, Zaren, now 17-0 (7 KOs), is starting to put it together and is looking better and better with each fight.

Tanzania’s Maigwisya, who was down in the seventh and hurt in the 10th, fell to 14-4 (10 KOs).

Elsewhere on the card, heavyweight Gustav Thorsen, 6-0 (4 KOs) outscored Poland’s Jakub Sosinski, 8-11-1 (3 KOs) in a six-rounder. Sosinski was hurt in the second by a right hand and suffered a busted nose, but he battled it out to the end and appeared to stun the Dane with a left hook in the fifth. Scores were 60-53 (twice) and 60-51.

Melissa Mortensen, 6-0 (3 KOs) dropped Tanzania’s Halima Vujnabel, 16-14-1 (10 KOs), twice in the second round but had to settle for a wide points win after eight two-minute rounds. Judges scored it 80-70 on all cards.

Danish junior lightweight Ahmad El Ahmad, 9-0 (2 KOs), overcame a bad start and cuts around both eyes to outscore Italy’s Leonardo Faretina, 8-7-1 (3 KOs) over six. Scores were 59-55 (twice) and 60-54.

The cut around Ahmad’s right eye was pretty nasty and could well have led to the fight being stopped.

Norwegian junior welterweight Sayed Kazemi, 4-1 (2 KOs) lost a close majority decision to Danish debutant Maher Khatib in a hard-fought six-rounder that was scored 59-55 and 58-56 for Khatib and 57-57. The fight went back and forth, with both having their moments. Kazemi landed with the cleaner punches, but Khatib kept coming and got the win.

Danish junior lightweight Elias Faour, 3-0 (1 KO) outclassed Moldova’s Ilie Munteanu, 1-6-1 (1 KO) in a fast-paced and wild four-rounder. Faour was never able to hurt his opponent, but he won easily on scores of 40-35 (twice) and 40-36.

In the show opener, Swedish welterweight Mohammed Al Maliki, 4-2 (0 KOs), outscored Bazargur Jugder, 16-43-4 (7 KOs) – a native of Mongolia now based in the Czech Republic – in a one-sided six-rounder that was scored 60-53 (twice) and 60-54.

Jugder, who turned 46 today, knew how to survive.