By Per Ake Persson

Russian heavyweight Dennis Boytsov takes on Israel "King Kong" Garcia for the apparently vacant WBA I/C title on the undercard to Chagaev vs Drumond on February 7 in Rostock. Exactly what happened to the previus champ, Taras Bidenko, isn´t known. Also on the Rostock bill is super middleweight Eduard Gutknecht who faces American Rubin Williams in what will be a good test for 15-0 German champ. Featherweight Marcel Meyerdicks, from nearby Wismar, is also on the bill.
 
Arena Box Promotion return to Germany and Cuxhaven with a big show on March 6 in Cuxhaven. Headlining are cruisers Herbie Hide and Matt Godfrey in a WBC eliminator. The show also feature two Arena "eliminators" as cruiser Tino Gross face Ivica Bacurin while middleweight Mustapha Karagol is in against Alexander Sipos.
 
EBU heavyweight king Matt Skelton has big Ukrainian Aleksander Dimitrenko as mandatory challenger. The parties involved have until March 19 for agreement.
 
Sauerland have moved the EU title fight between champ Francesco Pianeta and challenger Michael Sprott from the February 28 show in Neubrandenburg to March 14 in Kiel. On the Neubrandeburg event middleweight Sebastian Sylvester faces Gaetano Nespro for the WBA Int´l title along with EBU super middleweight ruler Karo Murat again facing Cristian Sanavia. Murat beat the Italian veteran on a very close call in this town almost a year ago.
 
IBF I/C l cruiserweight champ Enad Licina, 15-1, defends the title on January 24 in Riesa on the Huck-Batello show against Colombian Juan Jose Herrera.
 
Danish paper BT writes that Sauerland Event have offered WBA super middleweight champ Mikkel Kessler seven million Danish kronas for a fight against Mads Larsen - in Denmark and with Sauerland promoting.