Fress Roman (born in Kazakhstan) had won the vacant WBC International Cruiserweight title in Magdeburg (Germany) last August 24th in a good boxing event promoted by SES Ulf Steinforth. He outpointed UD10 Yasin Basar (born in Germany). It was a good win for Fress who improved to 21-1, 12 and is now ready to make his first title defence next November 2nd in Chemnitz (Germany) against Stefan Nikolic. This is an interesting rematch as Nikolic had beaten Fress in an International Amateur tournament some years ago.