By Per Ake Persson
WBO I/C light heavyweight champ Aleksyi Kuziemski will now take on Lithuanian Mantas Tarvydas on November 22 in Rostock and not Ukrainian Yuri Barashian, who reportedly may face WBO king Zsolt Erdei January 10 instead.
EBU jr. welterweight champ Gianluca Branco´s defence against Finn Juho Tolppola is postponed from November 21 until December 19. Site will be either Milan or Rome and OPI 2000 will top the bill with Paolo Vidoz vs. Matt Skelton for the vacant EBU heavyweight crown. Also on the bill is on all Italian matchup for the EU 140 lb title between Giorgio Marinelli and Giuseppe Lauri.
Hassan N´Dam N´Jikam and Affif Belghecham clash in the finals of "the Grand Tornoi" at the Cirque d´Hiver in Paris on December 11. Woilid Guarras finished in the third place with a DQ win over Robert Roselia last week.
French featherweight champ Osman Aktas retained the title on majority decision draw against challenger Samir Kasmi Saturday night in St Nazaire. On the undercard Mamadou Diambang, a very good amateur, made his pro debut but lost a split call to Igor Baldhi from Moldova.
WBO I/C welterweight champ Christian Bladt´s defencse against Sven Paris was first postponed from November 28 until December 19 and is now moved from Frosinone to Grosseto.
Sauerland Event´s "Nordic Nightmare", Swedish-Finn heavyweight Robert Helenius will make his Finnish debut on November 28 in Helsinki on the big Asikainen vss Gevor event. Helenius, 4-0, have previously fought in Sweden and Germany.
German heavyweight Aleksander Jakob didn´t just lose on points to Konstantin Airich last nigh in Cuxhaven; he also suffered a broken leg in the process. In the main event on this Arena promotion Mahir Oral stopped Aleksander Sipos on a eighth round TKOwhen Sipos retired with an injury. Heavyweight Steffen Kretschmann took out Marcel Zeller in two and Herbie Hide outscored Lukasz Rusiewicz over six.
Frenchman Willy Blain, signed to Spotlight Boxing in Hamburg, Germany, is the official challenger for the WBO to the winner of the Kendall Holt-Ricardo Torres rematch December 13 in Atlantic City.
A proposed fight between former world cruiserweight champs Jean Marc Mormeck and Fabrice Tiozzo has apparently been stopped already at the preliminary stages, writes l´Equipe. Tiozzo wants a 600,000 EUR payday and network Canal+ - which at the moment is the sole TV channel in France that is interested in bigtime boxing and capable of financing it - aren´t interested in those numbers. Previously Canal+ forced WBA ligh flyweight champ Brahim Asloum into a big pay cut.
