Panamanian light heavyweight Tito Mendoza has been in full training to face WBA ruler Stipe Drews in Germany this fall but Drews reportedly is injured. laprensa.com writes that Tito will now be the opponent for WBO champion Zsolt Erdei, who defends the title November 24 in Dresden. Mendoza is not rated by the WBO but that is a problem that is normally easily solved.

Sauerland Event has signed up Swiss heavyweight Nikola Vujasinovic, a four-time national champ at super heavyweight. Nikola lost to Alexander Povetkin in the European championships in 2004. Vujasinovic makes his pro-debut December 8 on a Sauerland show that according to swissboxing.ch will go ahead in either Basle or Berlin with IBF middle champ Arthur Abraham headlining.

Russian Timur Shaylezov, who recently lost the NABA bantam title, moves down to super flyweight and faces Panamanian Ricardo Molina October 25 in Ekaterinburg.

Serbian jr middle Nikola Stevanovic won the IBF Youth title October 5 in Belgrade with a ten round unanimous points win over Frenchman Cedric Charlier.

Swedish Shadow Pro Box will stage a dinner show at the Garden nightclub in Gothenburg, headlined by heavyweight Johan Thorbjornsson.

In Madrid light heavy Alejandro Lakatus, who gave then WBO king Dariusz Michalczewski a very tough fight back in 2001, and also fought Hugo Garay and Zsolt Erdei, returned after two years out and stopped Romanian Pavel Virgil in the first round.

Frantisek Kasanic won the IBC I/C cruiser title with a seventh round knockout over Hungarian Ruben Oliver on a show in Nove Zamky, Slovakia, October 5.

Unbeaten Swiss welter Riad Menasria will return to action after a brief layoff. Menasria was earlier this year offered a chance at current EBU welter champ Jackson Osei Bonsu but fell out due to a dispute over money and dropped out for awhile.