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WOLVERHAMPTON manager Dave Poston tells me CHRIS COUGHLAN, the former Swansea heavyweight who quit boxing in
November 1993 to study for a degree, is hoping to be re-licensed.
Coughlan won only two of 17, but fought Wayne Llewellyn, Joe Bugner Jnr, Kevin McBride and Scott Welch. A former Welsh
ABA champion (1989), the 38-year-old has been training for two-and-a-half months, but the Board want to watch him spar before
approving his return.
Poston is enthusiastic about his middleweight ANDREW ALEXANDRA, who turns professional shortly. Alexandra is known as
"The Powerhouse" and Dave said: "At 27, he's a strong lad."

HOWARD EASTMAN is to defend his European
middleweight title against undefeated Cristian
Sanavia in Padua, Italy on October 20.
Purse bids were won by promoter Salvatore Cherchi,
who with hometown advantage for his boxer hopes to
end Eastman's undefeated 32-fight record and take
away the Londoner's No. 1 ranking with the WBA.
Eastman, who was at the Hasim Rahman-Lennox
Lewis press conference on Monday, met Don King
afterwards to discuss a possible fight with the Felix
Trinidad-Bernard Hopkins winner.

SHEA NEARY, the thrill-a-minute Liverpool bruiser who hasn't fought since losing
controversially on points to Eamonn Magee for the Commonwealth lOst crown
last November, is poised for a WBU welterweight title shot at new champ JAN
BERGMAN - in London, possibly the Elephant and Castle Leisure Centre.
Although the fight has not been confirmed, it was announced in South Africa last week
champion Bergman would defend against the Scouser in the capital on November 17 - the
same day Lennox Lewis tries to win back his world heavyweight title from Hasim Rahman on
the other side of the pond.

T H O M A S TATE of Detroit stands in the
way of O M A R SHEIKA and a second
'world' super-middleweight title opportunity for
the New Jersey-based Palestinian.
They meet next Friday over 12 in Sheika's hometown
of Paterson in an IBF title eliminator for the right to meet
German Sven Ottke. The vacant USBA title (given up by
Joe Calzaghe-bound Antwun Echols) is also up for grabs.
ESPN2 televise live in the States.
Sheika has trained in Phoenix and
says he's far from underestimating his
opponent, even though Tate is 35.

DON MARKS, our Aussie correspondent, was one of the judges, thus concentrated
on scoring the fight and was unable to supply us with a detailed report.
He did fax us his opinions, saying: "The fight was very ordinary. Mundine showed
he had a long way to go before he could remotely call himself world class.
"Soliman is one hell of an awkward fighter but, as his record suggests, can be
beaten. What father Tony Mundine would have done to him is frightening.
"Still, when assessing Mundine, he never boxed amateur, so has done very well.
He deserved to win.