By Alexey Sukachev


You’d think a milestone such as participating in your 50th pro fight would serve as enough motivation to offer an inspiring outing.


Not the case for former cruiserweight master and unsuccessful heavyweight title challenger Juan Carlos Gomez (WBA #12 and WBC #14), who hardly impressed in taking a painfully boring eight-round unanimous decision over Turkish no-hoper Oezcan Cetinkaya (17-7-2, 11 KOs), Friday evening at Karl Eckel Halle in Hattersheim am Main, Hessen, Germany.


Gomez just walked after neglecting Cetinkaya, but failed to land any crisp telling blows. His opponent took a safety-first approach and was too passive to give anybody a note of himself.


The Cuban is now 47-2 with 36 KOs and a single NC. He will be back to the ring on June 26 in Atlanta, Georgia, against Rafael Zumbano (26-4-1, 20 KOs) of Brazil for a vacant IBF Latino heavyweight belt.


Albanian super middleweight fireball Gjetan Keta (5-1, 5 KOs) dropped Czech whipping boy Karel Zdarsa (0-11) thrice before the bout was stopped at 1:05 of the very first round. Zdarsa is yet to hear a final bell.


Coming back after two years of inactivity Cuban cruiserweight Damian Norris (13-5, 7 KOs) clowned more than boxed but yet earned a points victory over Albanian debutant Nysret Sopay (0-1).


Damien Arnet Espinosa, who once defeated such fighters as Michael Simms, Roderick Willis and Jason Gavern, was uninterested in a fight but used his vast experience and superior skills to frustrate ultra brave but limited Sopay all the way. The Albanian was dropped by a short right in the fourthbut came bak to give his all in the last round.


Boxingscene.com saw it 59-54 - for Norris, who was booed by the audience despite the victory.


German heavyweight Konstantin Airich (15-2-2, 12 KOs) stopped his hugely overmatched countryman Alexander Kahl (15-6-1, 13 KOs) in two one-sided rounds at the beginning of Hako Sevecke's Hattersheim am Mein promotion.


Kahl was never in the game and was dropped twice in the opening rounds - first by a right hand to the body and then with a left hook which barely penetrated his guard.


Kahl showed no desire to continue but the bout headed to the second stanza anyway. It didn’t take long for the German journeyman to find the exit. Airich sent his opponent to the canvas for the third time early in the round. Kahl beat the count, but referee Timo Habeghorst rightfully halted the action right after that, 0:53 into the second round.