IN BRIEF : Pro Boxing Debuts in Soviet Union

Three months after its first appearance in eastern Europe, professional boxing makes its debut in the Soviet Union today with an International Boxing Federation program of non-championship bouts.

Between four and six fights will be featured, including an IBF European Continental bantamweight fight between Frenchman Alain Limrola and Antti Juntumaa of Finland. The show will take place in a 4,000-capacity arena in Tallinn, the capital of the tiny Baltic Republic of Estonia close to the Finnish border.

Last February, the IBF, which is based in the United States, organized the first world title fight behind the Iron Curtain when Simon Brown successfully defended his welterweight title in Budapest, Hungary, against Jorge Maysonet. Until the Brown fight, professional boxing had been exclusively confined to the West, apart from a couple of world title contests in Yugoslavia, which has adopted a non-aligned sports policy.