By Per Ake Persson
AMI Production have canceled the July 26 show that would have featured WBA light flyweight champ Brahim Asloum defending the title against Giovanni Segura. Asloum dropped out of training after taking a hefty paycut from televising network Canal+. Promoter Michel Acaries tried to salvage the show with WBA female jr. welterweight queen Ann Sophie Mathis and EBU cruiserweight champ Jean Marc Monrose topping the bill, but decided yesterday to cancel the event as a whole. While Asloum did suffer a big cut in his purse he still walks out on a 500,000 EUR (and a 100 000 EUR in victory bonus) payday.
German heavyweight Timo Hoffmann is set return on October 4 in Bauitzen in a ten-rounder. Hoffmann tested positive for an illegal substance after losing to Aleksander Dimitrenko in November of last year and was given a one-year suspension by the Bund Deutsh Berufsboxer, the BDB. Hoffmann will for his comeback fight with a GBA, German Boxing Association, license.
IBF Youth jr. welterweight champ Decha Bankluagym from Thailand defends the title on October 11 in Chateauneuf-sur-Loire against Frenchman Jean Nicolas Weigel. Weigel lost a EBU title fight last year to Spaniard Juan Carlos Diaz Melero.
Luca Tassi and Mouhamed Ali Ndiaye clash for the Italian super middleweight title on August 1 in Rome.
Heavyweight veteran Luan Krasniqi is looking to return this fall. Krasniqi have been out since July of last year when he lost a WBO eliminator to Tony Thompson after a poor performance but was all set to fight stablemate Aleksander Dimitrenko this spring when the Ukrainian, unhappy with the payment, pulled out. Luan remains a big name in Germany but needs activity to get into the picture of bigger fights.
