By Per Ake Persson

The White Buffalo, Francois Botha, retained the WBF heavyweight title with a split decision over twelve hard fought, messy, mauling and exciting rounds of boxing against Timo Hoffmann on this SES show at Boerdeland Hall in Magdeburg.

It was scored 117-110 and 114-113 for Botha and 114-113 for Hoffmann. After ten, Hoffmann was a champion on two cards but the so called "German Oak" fell in the eleventh and could well have been stopped in the last round as he, totally spent, hung on to Botha with a friendly referee in Dutchman Robert Verwijs giving him a lot of breaks. More...

The European Super Featherweight title was fought over on Friday at Sporthalle Brandberge at Halle an der Saal in Germany and reigning champion Sergey Gulyakevich, 26-1 (12), retained the belt with a hard earned victory over previously unbeaten European Union Champ Vitali Tajbert, 17-1 (6).

Women's flyweight superstar Susi Kentikian, 23-0 (16), kept on track with a defense of her WBA and WIBF titles with a ten round points win over GBU Champ Anastasia Toktaulova, 13-10 (2).

Two undefeated heavyweights clashed on the bill and Sebastian Koeber, 17-0 (12), came out on top with a dramatic tenth and final round KO of Dieter Roth, 19-1 (12), for the Interim German title.

Oliver Guettel, 15-1 (8), retained his WBC Youth Welter title with a ten round UD over previously undefeated Muhsen Nasser, 17-1-1 (2) and WBO Intercontinental Middleweight beltholder Sebastian Zbik, 25-0 (9), won a non-title eight rounder against Christophe Karagoz, 17-14-4 (4).

Saturday saw Jeremy Parodi, 23-0-1 (7), win the French Super Bantam title against former European title challenger Salem Bouaita, 19-14 (6), on points in Toulon, France. More...

By Per Ake Persson

The Lotto Arena in Antwerp, Belgium, is booked for November 11 with former European Welter Champ Jackson Osei Bonsu scheduled to take on Argentinian Carlos Baldomir. Some sources say this is a WBC eliminator but if a fighter can come off a loss into an eliminator is doubtful. But the fight itself appears to be on. More...