By Per Ake Persson

WBA super welterweight interim champion Brian Carlos Castano will return to France in March, writes netboxe.com, and defend the title against former EBU titleholder Cedric Vitu. Vitu won an IBF eliminator in May and has been waiting since then for his chance.

"I will be fighting in March with the Frenchman Cedric Vitu. I want to put on a couple of nice fights for the year coming up and the first should be with Cedric Vitu," Castano said to Telam.

Back in July, Castano got his biggest win to date when he defeated Michel Soro in Evian, France.

"As for the best moment of this year, it was the fight with Soro. That was until now the most epic moment of my career, a hard fight where I then had to fight with the judges over the issue of the scorecards. They wanted to turn them over in favor of the opponent, the local boxer, but thank God I won and I could retain the belt."

WBO I/C heavyweight champ Tom Schwarz (19-0) returns to action after a brief layoff due to injuries February 3 in Halle / Saale and defends the title against fellow German Samir Nebo (10-1-1) on a SES promotion.

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Petko´s Box Promotion will promote an IBO final eliminator between Howik Bebraham and Fedor Papazov. The fight will go ahead in March 2018 and the winner will take on IBO titleholder Emmanuel Tagoe later in 2018.

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Bulgarian cruiser Tervel Pulev, Kubrat´s younger brother, moved to 7-0 December 23 in Berlin with a second round TKO win over Artsiom Charniakevich. On the same bill middleweight Patrick Wojcicki, now 10-0-1, drew with Anatoli Hunanyan, 7-3-1, over eight.

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WBA Continental super bantamweight champ Oleksandr Yegorov (19-1-1) defends the title against Spain´s Cristian Rodriguez (10-1) January 20 in Kiev, Ukraina, reports espabox.com.

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Spanish super welterweight Sergio "El Nino" Garcia (25-0) tunes up for what could be a big year February 3 in Bilbao with a fight against Panamanian Jeffrey Rosales (8-6-2). Garcia holds the WBC Silver title and a fight against newly crowned EBU champ Zakaria Attou could also be around the corner.