By Per Ake Persson

Universum´s big show in Oberhausen on April 28, will feature six title fights. On top reinstalled WBA middleweight champ Javier Castillejo defends against Felix Sturm, at light heavyweight - WBA ruler Silvio Branco face Stipe Drews and WIBF featherweight queen Ina Menzer fight Maria Andrea Miranda. Outside of that WBC Int´l cruiser titlist Rudolf Kraj, WBO I/C jr welterweight king Willy Blain, super middleweights Lukas Wilaschek and Mario Veit are also on the bill.
 
Union Box Team in Donetsk, Ukraine, promotes at a big show on April 17. Super middleweight Stas Kashtanov faces unknown Lithuanian Mantas Tarvyadas in a defense of the WBC Youth title. WBO I/C featherweight champ Stas Merdov fight Daniel Kodjo Sassou from Togo but fighting out of France and lightweight Andrei Kudriavtsev take on Andrey Devyataykin in a EE-EU titlefight. Unbeaten welterweight Vyacheslav Senchenko squares off against Vladimir Khodokovsky, also in a EE-EU bout.
 
French bantamweight David Guerault probably reached the end of the line last night in Madrid with an upset stoppage loss to Venezuelan Edinso Torres. Guerault won the EBU flyweight title back in 97 and have belonged to the best in Europe at 112 and 118 since then. Last year he was signed to Sports Network. Against Torres things to be going well going into the sixth when he was hurt and floored and he didn´t really recover and was stopped in the eighth and final round. In the main event Pablo Navascues beat Miguel Angel Pena on a split decision to win the vacant Spanish jr. middleweight title. Welterweight prospect Amaro Dialo beat Domingos Nascimento over eight.
 
Belgian heavyweight Oleg Platov join Michel Trabant on the undercard to Valuev vs. Chagaev on April 14 in Stuttgart.
 
Swedish heavyweight Aldo Colliander will step in for Johan Thorbjornsson and take on German Werner Kreiskott on Saturday in Gothenburg.
 
EuroBoxe put on a big show in Liege, Belgium, on May 5, with super middleweights Michel Henrotin and comebacking Lansana Diallo in separate bouts on top. Also on the bill is newly crowned EBU female lightweight champ Nathalie Toro, Belgian middleweight ruler Jamel Bakhi as well as the likes of Alexandre Polizzi, Rachid Mokhtari and Geoffrey Batello.
 
Florida-based Swede Ismael Koné could be on his way back again and might fight in Stockholm on May 19 on Innuendo´s mixed martial arts / proboxing event.