By Per Ake Persson
Dane Martin Kristjansen, WBO I/C ruler at lightweight, moves up to jr. welter and takes on unbeaten Norwegian Geir Inge Jorgensen for the vacant Nordic title on the undercard to the Beyer vs Kessler WBC/BA unification bout at super middleweight. Team Palle have already another Denmark vs Norway clash on show with Johny Jensen vs Thomas Hansvoll at cruiserweight. A Sweden vs Denmark fight could be happening at heavyweight if Mikael Lindblade squares off against Claus Bertino. One Swede who won´t appear October 14 is former WBO middleweight champ Armand Krajnc but the comeback could be on for a later date.
Check out hersisia.com for an update on Dutch heavyweight Richel Hersisia. It´s operated by Markus Beyer´s marketing company 12rounds. Hersisia may fight on Universum´s show in Stuttgart on October 28.
There were 3600 tickets sold as of Monday for Amin Asikainen´s defense of the EBU middleweight title against German Alexander Sipos on October 6 at the Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, Finland.
IBO jr. middleweight champ Attila Kovacs have been forced to postpone his planned October 14 defense due to what is described as "technical reasons". The whole show, put on by Felix-Promotion, is thus moved to another date.
Ex-WBO I/C super middleweight champ Lolenga Mock is the official co-challenger along with Frenchman Jean Paul Mendy for the vacant EU title. Deadline for purse offers or agreement is October 24 at noon.
