Styles make fights, they say, and this precept could apply in Saturday’s featherweight title fight on the big Universum show in Germany when Mexico’s Humberto Gutierrez defends his WBC 130-pound title against Vitali Tajbert, the German former amateur star.

Sometimes when a fight is made it takes one by surprise. That’s how I feel about the WBC cruiserweight title fight in Germany on Saturday between Giacobbe Fragomeni and Zsolt Erdei. My first thought was to wonder what on earth Erdei is doing boxing at 200 pounds. He was Olympic bronze medallist in the middleweight division, and it’s not as if he was a big light-heavyweight when he turned professional. Indeed, looking at Erdei’s undefined physique, the thought crossed my mind that with a big enough effort he could have got down to the 168-pound limit. Yet Erdei has given up his WBO light-heavy title to move up in weight and “seek new challenges” as his promoter, Universum, puts it.

Dimitri Sartison, overmatched against Mikkel Kessler 17 months ago in Denmark, has come back with three routine wins and on Saturday’s big Universum show in Germany he makes a second world title attempt, this time in a winnable fight against Stjepan Bozic, a 35-year-old Croatian who has won his last five fights. They meet for the vacant WBA super middle title.

Filipino rising star Marvin Sonsona returns to Canada for a 12-round main event at Casino Rama in Ontario on Saturday when he defends his WBO junior bantam title against Mexico’s Alejandro Hernandez, with TV coverage on TSN.