By William Mackay: Heavyweight Lamon Brewster (33-4, 29 KOs) will be making his comeback on Saturday night against Danny Batchelder (25-5-1, 12 KOs) in a scheduled 12-round bout for the vacant NABA heavyweight title at the Cincinnati Gardens, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Brewster, now 35, a former World Boxing Organization heavyweight champion, hasn’t seen action in over a year since losing by a sixth round stoppage to IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko. In that fight, Brewster looked hardly the same fighter he had been in the past. Gone was his brawling style and in its place was a more passive, risk-adverse style of fighting as if Brewster was trying to avoid contact altogether.
There would be no problem with this style of fighting if Brewster was using a jab and foot movement to get in position to land shots against the 6’6″ Klitschko. However, Brewster did little punching and seemed unable to pull the trigger. His new trainer Buddy McGirt had been brought in to teach him how to avoid taking so much punishment, something that had been a factor in Brewster experiencing a detached retina of his left eye while losing his WBO world title to challenger Serguei Lyakhovich in April 2006.
By Eric Thomas: Former World Boxing Organization heavyweight champion Lamon Brewster (33-4, 29 KOs) will be making a comeback after a year away from boxing when he returns to the ring on August 30th against a still yet to be determined opponent at the Cincinnati Gardens, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Brewster, now 35, hasn’t fought since losing by a sixth round TKO to IBF heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko on July 2nd, 2007. At the time of the fight, Brewster was coming off another one-year layoff following surgery to repair a detached retina of his left eye that he sustained in his war-like bout with Serguei Lyakhovich on April 1, 2006. 
It’s hard to believe that it’s only been four months since former one-time World Boxing Organization heavyweight champion Lamon Brewster (33-4, 29 KOs) was stopped in the 7th round by International Boxing Federation heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko. It seems like ages, especially because of the lack of news about Brewster in the boxing world. Brewster, still only 34, is almost completely forgotten, as if he’s been written off because of the loss to Klitschko. However, the loss shouldn’t be that big of a deal, since Brewster was quite literally insane for fighting Klitschko in the first place, because it had been a year since Brewster had last fought, and even worse, he was coming off a eye surgery to repair a detached retina.