By Per Ake Persson

WBA "regular" champ Gennadyi Golovkin met today with his estranged promoter Universum in a German court. The parties couldn´t come to terms. The court is likely to hand out its ruling sometime in January on this contractual dispute. With this, Golovkin´s planned defense of the title December 10 in Berlin against Nilson Julio Tapia is off. Instead, the plan is now to stage Golovkin vs Tapia December 16 in Astana, Kazakhstan.
 
The undercard to Froch vs Abraham and Helenius vs Levin on Saturday in Helsinki features mainly the up and coming talent from P 3 Boxing. Sauerland does have light heavyweight Artur Hein on the bill though and he takes on Sam Couzens over eight. Lightweight Edis Tatli faces Bulgarian Asan Yuseinov while super middleweight Niko Jokinen is in against Jorge Silva.
 
Hungarian heavyweight Zoltan Petranyi takes on Laszlo Toth on December 2 in Budapest with the national title at stake. Petranyi is today one of the main suppliers of "opponents" to the undercards and sometimes main events in Europe but continues his boxing career. Toth is one of the fighters that appear regularly on the shows promoted by Zoltan and his Profibox Promotion outfit, and yes, Zoltan is the matchmaker as well.
 
The EBU have set December 6 at noon as deadline for a deal to get struck for Karoly Balzsay vs Amin Asikainen for the vacant EBU super middleweight title.
 
Swedish female jr middleweight Maria Lindberg won another minor title this past weekend with a clear win over 45-year old Diane Schwachober. Unfortunately Lindberg´s continued career underlines a major weakness in professional boxing at of the end of 2010:

Unified rules and unified suspensions. Lindberg suffered during her brief amateur career, serious head injuries, and after an amateur fight in 99 she was even in coma for a few days, lost eyesight and suffered from loss of memory. She recovered though and wanted to make a comeback but under the amateur rules (AIBA) she was suspended indefinitly.

Lindberg then wanted to turn pro but it took her until 2004 before she was able to make her debut in the United States. When the Swedish Federation found out about this they notified the ABC and Maria got a red flag next to her name that is still there. Then in 2008 Lindberg was given a license by the BDB; the German Federation that holds EBU membership. The BDB have just like SBF, the Swedish Federation, signed the EBU safety agreement where the members, among other things, promise to honor each other's suspensions. Not so in this case, despite what seems to be overwhelming medical evidence - the BDB insists that Lindberg is fit and able to fight - luckily they seem to be pretty alone in their thinking but this case still underlines a major weakness in pro boxing.