By Per Ake Persson
WIBF super middleweight champ Natascha Ragosina has suffered a hand injury and will not be able to defend the title on September 9 in Magdeburg. The show is headlined by WIBF flyweight queen Regina Halmich. Hungarian super middleweight Karoly Balczay takes on American Etienne Whittaker and Russian heavyweight Dennis Boytsov squares off against Czech Ondrey Pala.
Berlin-based Irishman Paddy Fitzpatrick leaves for Japan on Monday to train Yosuke Nishijima, who turned to K 1 and has a big fight coming up on September 10. Fitzpatrick is then headed back to Buddy McGirt´s gym in Florida to work with fighters like Lamon Brewster, Tomasz Adamek, Cedric Boswell, Jimmy Lange and William Guthrie. Paddy is also the advisor and trainer for Swedes Vatche Wartanian and Tonton Semakala.
Norwegian jr. middleweight Nikita Dubinin fights tough Berlin clubfighter Mazen Gierke, who is much better than his record, on August 26 in Oldenburg on the Abraham vs Miranda undercard. Stablemate Andreas Evensen is in against Belgian Milou Saadi. Dubinin and Evensen are trained and managed by Helge Waeroy. Polish jr. middleweight Damien Jonak, from the HammerKnockout stable, takes on Latvian Sandris Tomson.
