By Per Ake Persson
Former cruiserweight champ Jean Marc Mormeck returns as a heavyweight November 20 in Paris. Opponent will be either Brian Minto or Vinne Maddalone. Mormeck have been inactive since losing the WBA and WBC titles to David Haye 2007.
WBF middleweight champ Kreshnik Quato will now face Fabio Liggieri on Saturday in Dessau, Germany. Quato was to have defended the title against Austrian Gogi Knezevic. In the headliner Francois Botha defends the WBF heavyweight title against Pedro Carrion, who have stepped in for Willi Fischer. In the third featured bout Slovakian Tamas Kovacs defends the WBF Int´l crown against Hungarian Istvan Varga. The undercard feature heavyweight Juergen Lutz, who at 2,17 m / 7ft2 is claimed to be the tallest active boxer worldwide.
The EBU have given promoter Hans Henrik Palm until January 16 to promote the fight for the vacant EBU super middleweight title between Dimitri Sartison and Mads Larsen. The deadline was in November but Larsen needed more time to prepare.
Dominick Britsch, 16-0, will make another defence of the IBF Youth title December 5 in Ludwigsburg. In the headliner WBO cruiserweight king Marco Huck face Ola Afolabi.
German jr lightweight Vitali Tajbert faces Mexican Humberto Gutierrez for the WBC interim title on November 21 in Kiel in the co-headliner to Fragomeni vs Erdei for the WBC cruiserweight crown. Gutierrez beat Sergey Gulyakevich on a close call in August and Gulyekevich was a relatively clear winner over Tajbert in December of last year so the German, an exellent boxer who lacks a punch, is up against it.
Danish veterans Allan Vester and Christian Bladt will come back when promoter Anders Vester, also coming back, promotes a show in Kjellerup March 26 of next year. If all goes well Bladt and Vester will then clash on the next Vester show. Headlining March 26 is Anita Christensen.
