By Per Ake Persson
IBF middleweight champ Arthur Abraham is sidelined with an infection and is not able to go through with his defense against Edison Miranda on Saturday (Aug 26) in Oldenburg. Sauerland Event has cancelled the whole show but hopes to be able to reschedule it in
September.
French jr welter Willy Blain scaled 139 lbs / 63,1 kg for tomorrow´s WBO I/C titlefight against Panamanian Juan Mosquera, 140 lbs / 63,5 kg at the Universum gym in Hamburg. Alex Mazikin weighed in at 236 lbs / 107 kg for his showdown with Taras Bidenko 224,75 lbs / 102 kg for the Int´l German title. Seven of the nine fights can be seen on boxing.de with the mainbouts televised by EuroSport. Spotlight Boxing promotes.
Danish promoter Bettina Palle on yesterday´s reports that Reda Zam Zam will defend the title against Italian Tobia Loriga. "We tried to get Loriga for Reda´s last defence as well but at the moment I can´t say if he´s coming or not.
Neither Thomas Hansvoll vs Johny Jensen is according to the promoter on but adds that it is indeed planned that Jensen fights on the bill.
So who will EBU middle champ Amin Asikainen defend against October 6 in Helsinki? The official announcement will come August 28 but it could be German Alexander Sipos. This is not confirmed anywhere - and no-one "leaked". I got the name by pure accident after a language misunderstanding.
