By Per Ake Persson: Sauerland Event have lodged an official protest to the WBA about the planned Mikkel Kessler vs Dmitri Sartison fight June 21 in Brondby, Denmark. Sauerland´s point is that Kessler´s opponent should have been # 3 rated Danilo Haussler and not # 4 Sartison. Mogens Palle insist that Kessler vs Sartison is on and will go ahead. His point is that Haussler does not deserve to be # 3 in the first place with only one fight in two years and losses to Kessler´s ex-stablemates Mads Larsen and Rudy Markussen.. Chris Meyer, CEO for Sauerland, argues that Haussler is # 3 and should thus have his chance. The only opening he leaves for Kessler vs Sartison to happen is that Haussler is paid a stepaside fee. The WBA isn´t expected to make any decisions until Mundine vs Soliman has taken place. Should Soliman, at one time a very respected sparring for both the Team Palle and Sauerland stars, pull off an upset and beat Mundine we will have a new situation.
Slovenian welter Jan Zaveck headlines a SES promotion in Maribor June 15 and take on German Marco Cattikas for the vacant IBF I/C title. Cattikas was stopped by Michel Trabant in 06 and took almost two years to return. Zaveck is the mandatory challenger for EBU ruler Jackson Osei Bonsu
German cruiser Marco Huck is on the mend after suffering a broken jaw in his winning fight against Frantisek Kasanic Saturday night in Bayreuth.
Arena´s Cuban sensation Yuriorkis Gamboa will now be trained by Orlando Cuellar. Arena have fired Osimir Fernandez, who trained Gamboa for the Jiminez fight this weekend. Yuriorkis trained in the Cuban parts of Miami for that fight and there were rumors of lot of out-of-camp disturbances even though Gamboa is said to be very disciplined. Next up is Venezuelan Jose Rojas June 27.
IBF # 1 cruiser challenger Tomasz Adamek will fight Gary Gomez in Chicago July 11 before taking on IBF champ “USS” Steve Cunningham.
Cruisers Karim Bennama and Nadjib Mohammedi headline the next Grand Tornoi show at the Cirque d´Hiver in Paris June 5 in a fight for the vacant French title. Also on the bill are heavies Carlos Takam and Steve Herelius. In the tournament Robert Roselia square off against Sylvain Gomis while Mohammed Nedjadi face Woilid Guarras.
Highly ranked Ukrainian heavy Taras Bidenko takes on British veteran Michael Sprott May 31 in Duesseldorf on the undercard to Menzer vs Reile and Sidorenko vs Anselmo doubleheader. Another heavyweight fight have prospect Manuel Charr fighting Adnan Serin.
The Sergey Sorokin vs Randall Bailey fight that was set for Bilbao May 30 is now on for Istanbul July 4 as Bailey had problems with traveling documents.
French jr middle Christophe Canclaux pulled out of Sauerland´s show in Bayreuth Saturday night due to a handinjury but is expected to be back in July.
Ukrainian supermiddle prospect Stas Kashtanov face Belorus Konstantyn Makhankov for the vacant EE-EU title July 5 in Donetsk on Union Boxing Team´s big show.