By Elisinio Castillo

The highest world ranked middleweight contender under the World Boxing Council will finally return to action on September 19th in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Jorge Sebastian Heiland (25-4-2, 13 KOs), 28-years-old, will snap a ten month inactivity streak when he faces Claudio Abalos (29-13-3) in a stay-busy fight.

Heiland was last seen in the ring last November, when he knocked out Matthew Macklin in the tenth round of their battle for the WBC International title in Dublin, Ireland.

After that fight, Heiland was a frontrunner to face WBC middleweight king Miguel Cotto in June, but the Puerto Rican boxer instead selected Australian contender and former champion Daniel Geale. He was also mentioned as a possible opponent for Gennady Golovkin, David Lemieux and Tureano Johnson - but none of those bouts ever happened.

Heiland has now won five in a row since losing a controversial majority decision to Mateo Damian Veron in June 2013 (and who Heiland knocked out in a 2014 rematch).

He now wants to get another shot at a world title. Heiland challenged Sebastian Zbik for the interim-WBC crown in 2010 and lost a twelve round decision in Hamburg, Germany.