Although Friday's Heavyweight action was disappointing we've got to admit that Saturday's was thoroughly interesting and truly global.

The highest profile bout, and arguably the one with the strangest ending, was in Britain as former world title challenger Dereck Chisora (19-4, 13) stopped Czech fighter Ondrej Pala (32-4, 22). The fight, which had been interesting in the first 2 rounds, ended in the third as the referee ruled Pala unfit to continue. Unfortunately it appeared that Pala was fine to continue but had made a clumsy mistake and was then tagged by two cheap shots. It seemed likely that Chisora was going to go on to score a stoppage but unfortunately the ending was less than satisfactory.

On the same card as the Chisora/Pala fight there was a victory for Scottish giant Gary Cornish (17-0, 9) who stopped Ivica Perkovic (20-23, 15). Although Perkovic has got a losing record this is still, easily, the best win on Cornish's record and the type of result that tells us that there is real development in Cornish, even if he'll never be a world champion himself.

Staying in Europe, though moving down to France, Ibrahima Mariko (4-1, 2) out pointed David Spilmont (2-2, 1) over 6 rounds.

The busiest European action was in Poland where we had 4 bouts on a show in Czestochowa. This show was headlined by Marcin Siwy (7-0, 4) stopping Istvan Ruzsinszky (12-9-1, 8) in the third round of a scheduled 8. Prior to the main event Marcin Najman (15-4, 11) had stopped the debuting Alex Serbic (0-1), Tomasz Dobosz (1-0, 1) had taken out Oliver Nagy (2-3) inside a round and Jacek Chruslicki (3-0, 1) took a majority decision over Ferenc Zsalek (12-38-3, 1).

In a notable Canadian upset Didier Bence (9-1, 3) was stopped in 2 rounds by fellow Canadian Eric Martel Bahoeli (10-3, 7). The fight saw Bence looking pretty good in the opening round before Martel connected hard early in the second. Bence did recover to his feet though was never able to clear his head and after 2 subsequent knockdowns the referee was forced to stop the fighter under the 3-knockdown rule. This is a major setback for Bence who did look promising through really kick-start Martel's career which seemed all but over 12 month ago when he was stopped by Bogdan Dinu.

Martel's victory over Bence was one of two Heavyweight bouts in Canada with the other seeing Dillon Carman (6-2, 5) stopping Sylvera Louis (5-3, 2) inside a round. This result sees Carman avenging a loss from earlier this year when Louis stopped him in the fifth round.

If we go with the biggest upset happening in Canada then the most obvious result occurred in the US as Travis Kauffman (27-1, 20) made extremely light work of Jason Barnett (14-15, 7), forcing an opening round stoppage. This saw Kauffman claiming the World Boxing Union Intercontinental Heavyweight .

On the same show Randy Easton (1-2-1, 1) scored his first victory as he stopped William Monroe (0-2) in just 43 seconds.

Surprisingly the action actually extended as far as Africa as Kenya played host for Morris Okola (4-0, 2) who defeated James Nyariki (0-9) via a unanimous decision over 4 rounds.

They often say that the Heavyweight division is the sports east predictable division. Whilst no division is totally predictable no other division has such big men wailing away on each other, no other division has the explosiveness of the Heavyweights and no division has the high profile of the Heavyweight division. Sure it's not everyone's favourite division but it is one that is universally interesting when well matched fighters face each other.

The unpredictability of the division was shown up this past Saturday in several contests as we had our share of action in a day that was genuinely massive in the boxing world.

The biggest shock of the day was in Germany where Russia's once promising Denis Boytsov (33-1, 26) was unexpectedly beaten by Australia's hard working but limited Alex Leapai (30-4-3, 24). This contest, which was for the WBO Asia Pacific Heavyweight title, twice saw Boytsov dropped as Leapai dominated an uninspired opponent. Prior to this contest the story was that Boytsov was being lined up to fight Wladimir Klitschko, fan should be relieved that they won't be needing to see that.

On the same show as Leapai's shock victory there was also a decision in favour of the promising Otto Wallin (4-0, 3) who went the distance against Tomas Mrazek (7-44-6, 5). This was the first time Wallin had gone the distance though it's great that the youngster is getting rounds under his belt and he now has 10 rounds of action in the space of just over 5 months,

Although the Boytsov/Leapai bout was the most important of the day it was probably the second most watched thanks to a big fight in Macau between the rotund Andy Ruiz Jr (21-0, 15) and former "Prizefighter" winner Tor Hamer (21-3, 14). Hamer, who started well and fought on an even keel for two rounds, quit after the third round as things began to turn against him. This bout, for the WBO Inter-Continental and NABF Heavyweight titles, may well be the final bout for Hamer who was apparently dropped by his promoter following the loss.

If Hamer has been let go by his promoters then that may be the most shocking boxing incident of the weekend, even more so than the awful stoppage in the Froch/Groves fight in the UK.

Hamer wasn't the only American in action as there was several bouts stateside. Of those the most notable was that of Alexis Santos (12-0, 10) who was taken beyond 4 rounds for the first time in his career. Fighting against Kevin Franklin (4-8, 1), Santos was forced to go the 6 round distance to take the victory. Although this result sees an 8 fight stoppage run coming to an end it will likely serve Santos the world of good knowing that he can do 6.

As well as Santos's victory there was also success for Charles Jerome (1-0), who defeated fellow debutant William Monroe (0-1), Tyyab Beale (9-3-1, 3), who took an 8 round decision over Jon Bolden (6-7, 5), and Khalib Whitmore (3-0, 2) who defeated Martez Williamson (1-4) via 2nd round TKO.