By Per Ake Persson
EBU super middleweight champ Mger Mkrtchian will now defend the title against Spaniard Gabriel Campillo at the Konti Kasino in St Petersburg. The date is likely to be October 5. Mkrtchian was originally set to defend the title against Russian Devi Gogiya on September 28, but it was then moved to Kiev and scheduled for September 23.
Spotlight Boxing feature a solid matchup on October 10 in Prague when Czech cruiserweight Rudolf Kraj takes on Pavel Melkomian for the vacant WBC Int´l title. WBO I/C jr middleweight champ Lukas Konecny co-headlines and super middleweights Robert Stieglitz and Michal Bilak are also on the bill.
Sauerland Event promotes in Muhlheim an der Ruhr on November 4 and features several fights that were scheduled for the postponed Oldenburg show on August 26 and the original September 23 event that was set for Muhlheim. At cruiserweight Marco Huck will take on Pietro Aurino for the vacant EU title, heavyweights Timo Hoffmann and Cengiz Koc clash in an internal eliminator and Henry Akinwande takes on Belgian Oleg Platov in a defense of the IBF I/C crown.
Ukrainian heavyweight Alexander Dimitrenko is in against Argentinian Gonzalo Omar Basile on "Universum Champions Night" on October 28 in Stuttgart. Taras Bidenko, Int´l German heavyweight champ, fights German ruler Andreas Sidon and cruisers Grigory Drozd and Firat Arslan square off in a Universum/Spotlight Boxing "eliminator". All ten fights on the show will be at cruiser or heavyweight.
German paper Bild Zeitung reports that heavyweight boxer Luan Krasniqi and manager Klaus Peter Kohl have buried the hatchet after a contractual dispute. Krasniqi was to have been featured as headliner for a planned Universum show on September 16. The goal is now to get the former EBU champ and WBO challenger a world title shot next year.
Dutch heavyweight Richel Hersisia will be trained by Torsten Schmitz when he returns to the ring during the fall. Hersisia have been out with a shoulder injury since January.
