By Per Ake Persson
EBU jr. lightweight champ Sergey Gulyakevich defends the title against slick German Vitaly Tajbert on a Spotlight Boxing promotion in Hamburg December 5.
The planned WBC eliminator between Jackson Osei Bonsu and Carlos Baldomir set for November 11 in Antwerp is off as the WBC didn´t approve it following Bonsu´s loss to Rafael Jackiewiewz, a much lower rated boxer. Jackson´s team are trying to keep the date though and are looking for another opponent.
Bernard Inom has vacated the EBU flyweight title and in a surprising move and announced his retirement. Inom told l´Equipe that he had been boxing for too long and wanted to see his kids grow up.
French featherweight Cyril Thomas defends the IBF Int´l title November 20 in St Quentin against Spaniard Ivan Ruiz Morote. EuroSport televise the mainbouts from the show.
EBU cruiserweight champ Marco Huck got a tough mandatory challenger in Russian Valery Brudov.
Hungarian super middleweight Karoly Balzsay is back from his eye injury, returning December 9 in Solden, Austria. Balzsay was all set to take on Denis Inkin this Saturday for the WBO interim title but was cut in sparring.
Gianluca Branco defends the EBU jr. welterweight title on November 14 somewhere in Italy against an opponent to be announced. On the same show Giuseppe Lauri and Giorgio Marinelli clash for the EU jr welter crown.
WBO I/C welter champ Christian Bladt defends the title against Italian Sven Paris in Frosinone November 28. Paris tunes up October 30 in Savigliano on the undercard to a show headlined by superfeathers Antonio De Vitis and Zsolt Nagy in a WBA I/C titlefight.
WIBF jr flyweight champ Julia Sahin is off Saturday´s show in Hamburg and out of her contract with Universum. Sahin hase according to a press release from Universum wanted out of her contract to fight for another promoter - and she got out to what seems to be a very uncertain future at least boxing wise.
Sauerland Event have three fighters on a show in Erfurt September 27: Jr middles Alex Abraham and Koko Murat as well as cruiser Jimmy Kapanov are all featured against carefully selected opponents. EBU champ Karo Murat will be ringside.
The internal SES "eliminator" between middles Marco Schulze and Enrico Wolf set for October 10 in Barleben is as Wolf has withdrawn with an injury. Schulz will still fight on the show headlined by Oliver Guettel and Timo Hoffmann but against another opponent.