By Per Ake Persson
Chilean welterweight Joel Mayo has been forced to pull out of his IBF I/C challenge against Ukrainian Viacheslav Senchenko. Mayo suffered a knee injury during yesterday´s (Aug 31) training. The fight was originally scheduled for September 2 in Donetsk, but had been moved to September 10 in Moscow.
Hungarian based Felix-Promotion, headed by Felix Racz, has the main bouts for their 11-fight show in Debrecen on September 10 set. In the main fight, Janos Nagy defends the IBC 130 lb title against Tontcho Tontchev, Joszef Nagy makes his debut at supermiddle against Maneno Oswald and Bettina Csabi takes on Zarriko Fatuma in a WIBF-GBU bantam fight. Jr middle Laszlo Buranyi, the IBF Int´l champ at 154, is featured on the undercard.
IBF I/C super middleweight champ Robert Stieglitz, based in Germany and signed to SES, will fight Colombian Alejandro Berrio in an IBF eliminator. Date and site to be announced.
Czech based OK KO Promotions appear to be pretty sure that Danish cruiser Lasse Johansen will defend the IBF Int´l title on December 3 in Prague against the winner of Roman Kracik vs Lubos Suda on September 10 also in Prague. Johansen fights Pavol Polakovic on the undercard. Meanwhile Kracik is pencilled in to fight September 20 on Spotlight Boxing´s show in Prague - which may be a bit optimistic considering he has a twelve rounder on hand Sep 10.
Corrado Battaglia and Giuseppe Truono clash for the vacant Italian 135 lb title October 7 in Siracusa.
Asa Sandell, the female super middleweight from Malmoe, Sweden, takes on Vashon Living on October 8 in Laughlin, NV. Rock & Sock Promotions also has Elena Reid on the bill in a tuneup before a possible rematch against Regina Halmich on December 10.
Swedish heavyweight Aldo Colliander is back in Hamburg sparring with the big boys at the Universum gym.
Vatche Wartanian is back home in Stockholm after five and a half years in America. Wartanian, a jr welter with a 7-2-2 ledger, hopes to be back in the ring during
