LATEST EURO NEWS
by Per Ake Persson

Hot Boxing News
August 15, 2008

Hungarian Karoly Balzsay and Russian Denis Inkin square off for the
WBO interim supermiddle title September 27 at the Color Line Arena
in Hamburg. It´s an interesting matchup between stablemates with
the slick boxing of Balzsay against Inkin´s power. It´s the fourth
titlefight to an already big show topped by the WBC eliminator at
heavyweight between Vladimir Virchis and Juan Carlos Gomez and WBA
cruiser champ Firat Arslan´s defence against Guillermo Jones as well
as Julia Sahin´s defence of the WIBF jr flytitle.

It might be on: Bild Zeitung writes today that heavies Luan Krasniqi
and Aleksander Dimitrenko could go ahead in Stuttgart during the
fall. The fight was on for last fall when Dimitrenko pulled out over
a financial dispute.

Union Boxing Team in Donetsk, Ukraine, have cancelled their planned
August 23 show. UBT have a big show in the works with Oleg Yefimovich
defending the EBU featherweight title as headliner.

Aleksander Abraham, based in Germany but of Armenian origin, and Nikola
Stefanovic from Serbia, clash for the vacant EE-EU middleweight title
October 25 in Duesseldorf in a supporting bout to Kessler vs Haussler.

World Sporting Promotions stage a show with local partners in Minsk,
Belorus, October 9 that will be televised by EuroSport. Lightweight
Yuri Romanov is featured in a non-title ten rounder with other fights
to be announced.

Colosseum Box Promotions and Tundra vs Barcelo promote a show in St
Petersburg September 27 with cruiser Ali Ismailov on top in a fight
for the WBO Latino title against Brazilian Pedro Otas.

Cuban heavy Odlanier Solis return to action after September 12 in
Palma de Mallorca, Spain, along with Turkish welter Selcuk Aydin,
who will defend the WBC Int´l title. Lightweight Hoang Sang Nguyen,
by way of Vietnam and Phila, PA, and now residing in Palma, headlines
the show. Arena also bring in Erislandy Lara and Steffen Kretschmann

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