"The Nordic Nightmare", Finnish-Swedish 10-0 heavyweight prospect Robert Helenius is sidelined with a hand injury after his tko in four win over Taras Bidenko Saturday night in Nuremberg. This means his December 5 fight against former WBO champ Lamon Brewster is off. Taking Robert´s place is EU champ Francesco Pianeta read more ...

Matt Skelton didn't just lose the Commonwealth title last Saturday night in Birmingham in his upset loss to Martin Rogan. He was also stripped of the EBU heavyweight title. Mandatory challenger is undefeated Alexander Dimitrenko, who now will fight the highest available challenger for the vacant title. Rogan's promoter Frank Warren is going to push for Rogan to get a crack at the vacant EBU title read more ...

"I have seen tapes of him boxing and regard him as an unpleasant opponent," said Beyer. "I looked bad in the first battle against the then-unknown Danny Green. I will never again allow that to happen to myself again. He will not be able to use his reach advantage (Colajanni is four inches taller than Beyer). Larger opponents are my specialty. They can be hit more easily." read more ...

Heavyweight Cengiz Koc challenges European heavyweight champion Paolo Vidoz on Saturday in Berlin. In his fight against Nikolai Valuev, Vidoz suffered a broken lower jaw. Two titanium plates were inserted to hold the jaw and the new combat-name of Vidoz is "Titanium Jaw." Today Valuev, now the WBA heavyweight champion, showed his training colleague and friend Koc how to break a jaw. Koc's hopes Valuev's experience will help him seize the Euro read more ...