Euro News 3-9-08

Per [perake.persson@comhem.se]

French jr middle Christophe Canclaux is still waiting for his shot at the WBA title held by Joachim Alcine, who´s now sidelined with an injury. Canclaux will stay busy with a fight lined up for either March 22 in France or will be on Sauerland´s show in Neubrandenburg April 12.

Talented Russian jr welter Sergey Sorokin goes for the vacant (Italian Giuseppe Lauri relinquished it) WBC Int´l title March 11 in Halle/Saale. Opponent is Kanat Kartenbaev from Kazachstan.

EBU fly champ Andrea Sarritzu defends against Frenchman Bernard Inom April 26 in Sassari with OPI 2000 promoting.

Official challenger for newly crowned EBU lightheavy ruler Yuri Barashian is former WBA king Stipe Drews.

Adrian Diaconu vs Chris Henry for the WBC interim lightheavy title will now go ahead April 19 with site remaining Bucharest. The show was originally scheduled for March 29.

Team Palle´s response - in Danish only at teampalle.dk - to Warrior´s agressive press release where they claimed that Mikkel Kessler was afraid of facing Edison Miranda is bascially a calm "there are ongoing talks". There´s nothing decided yet on Kessler´s next fight but Team Palle don´t rule out that Miranda could be a future opponent this fall. Stylewise these two shape up well with Miranda´s agression against Kessler´s fine jab and good boxing.

German heavy Luan Krasniqi is at the crossroads in his career. First he pulled out of the position as mandatory challenger for the vacant EBU title as there were plans made for a show with WBA champ and stablemate Ruslan Chagaev. As that fight fell through when the WBA didn´t grant Chagaev permission for another voluntary defence Krasniqi must probably stay busy in order to remain in the title picture and perhaps face the winner of Chagev vs Valuev. Luan have been inactive since losing a WBO eliminator against Tony Thompson in July of last year.

French veteran Alain Simon´s career came to an end this weekend after a stoppage loss to Croatian Drazen Ordulj, a guy Alain stopped back in 2001. Simon was as brave as they come and while not good enough to beat the likes of Aleksander Petkovic, Vincenzo Cantatore or Krzysztof Wlodarczyk he always gave his all.

Spotlight Boxing promotes in Magdeburg April 19 with middleweight Sebastian Zbik and heavyweight Sebastian Koeber headlining. Slovenian welter Jan Zaveck, mandatory challenger for the EBU title, is also on the bill.

In Metz, France, Ann Sophie Mathis stopped Anna Pascal while cruiser Jean Marc Monrose took out German Marco Heinichen in the first round of a final tuneup before challenging EBU champ Johny Jensen.

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