By Per Ake Persson

Russian super middleweight Denis Inkin will now fight Valentin Ochoa on December 13 in Solden, Austria. Chilean welterweight Joel Mayo squares off against Belorussian Sergey Shnip. Heavyweight hopeful Dennis Boytsov is inagainst Hungarian Zoltan Petranyi. Spotlight Boxing promotes and will also stage a show at the Universum gym in Hamburg, on January 24

Cruisers Pavel Melkomian and Grigory Drozd clash onJanuary 7 in Munich on the Dimitrenko vs Calloway bill. 

Interbox has jr. lightweight Benoit Gaudet on the undercard to Eric Lucas´ challenge against WBA super middleweight champ Mikkel Kessler.

Brit Peter Haymer is co-challenger along with German Kai Kurzawa for the vacant EU 175 lb title.

Wayne Pinder and Jorge Sendra clash on January 27 in Leon, Spain, for the vacant EU 160 lb belt.

Irishman Paddy Fitzpatrick will work Laila Ali´s corner on December 17. Fitzpatrick has arrived in Berlin after a brief stint in Stockholm, Sweden, to work with two fighters who will return in 2006 after lengthy layoffs: Vatche Wartanian and Tonton Semakala. More to come!