European Boxing News: Balzsay, Inkin, Krasniqi, Yefimovich, Abraham, Solis

By Per Ake Persson

Hungarian Karoly Balzsay and Russian Denis Inkin square off for the WBO interim super middle title on 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 title fight 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 Junior Fly title.

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 European Featherweight title as headliner.

Aleksander Abraham, based in Germany but of Armenian origin, and Nikola Stefanovic from Serbia, clash for the vacant EE-EU=2 0Middleweight title on October 25 in Duesseldorf in a supporting bout to Kessler vs Haussler.

World Sporting Promotions stage a show with local partners in Minsk, Belorus, on 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 returns to action after September 12 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, along with Turkish welter Selcuk Aydin, who will defend the WBC International title.

Lightweight Hoang Sang Nguyen, by way of Vietnam and Philadelphia PA, and now residing in Palma, headlines the show. Arena also brings in Erislandy Lara and Steffen Kretschmann.