By Per Ake Persson

French heavyweight star Tony Yoka (5-0) returns after a year long suspension on July 13 at the Palais des Sports in Paris.

French paper l´Equipe wrote on May 25 that the opponent would be US-based Dutchman Tyrone Spong, 12-0 in boxing and a veteran in martial arts.

However, promoter Jerome Abiteboul later made it clear in the same paper that he could not confirm that Spong was indeed was the opponent and later the two fighters exchanged "compliments" on Twitter and it appears that there is no deal in place.

Robbie Davies Jr (18-1) will defend the EBU 140 lb title against Sandor Martin (34-2) on July 27 in Barcelona. It will be the second chance to win this title for Martin, who previously lost to Anthony Yigit.

Davis Jr won the title with a close call against Joe Hughes and this is his first defence.

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Cuban heavyweight prospect Leinier Pero made his prod ebut Saturday night in Wittenberge (Germany) and stopped veteran Maksum Pedyura in the first round after scoring two knockdowns. Leno is promoted by Wiking Box Team, who previously had another Cuban heavyweight star in Pedro Carrion in the team.

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Super middleweights Armenak Hovhannisyan and ex-WBA champ Dmitri Chudinov fought to a technical draw May 25 in Salzgitter (Germany). The fight ended with Chudinov badly cut after what was ruled as an accidental clash of heads. This fight headlined a Marco Huck Box Promotion show..