Boxing News magazine 14.5.1999 Download pdf

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STEVE COLLINS' comeback is in limbo
before it has even started.
The former WBO middle and supermiddleweight
champion held a Press
conference on Wednesday when he had
been expected to announce whether he was
going ahead with plans to box on June 5 in
Cardiff or not.

DOUG BIDWELL, manager, trainer and
father-in-law of ex-world middleweight
champion Alan Minter, died on May 5.
He had been fighting cancer for about a
year, but was in no pain at the end.
"He slipped away," said his son Ross.
"Gone to a better place."

NO surprise that NASEEM HAMED
pulled out of a July 17 HBO date
in America. The Sheffield puncher's
hands have reportedly not healed
in time to begin training.
There is talk Naz (right) will go
to Detroit to see Emanuel Steward,
who will refer the WBO 9st champion
to a hand specialist who treated
Thomas Hearns.

STAINES light-welter WEE BARRY (9st 12lbs), a baggagehandler
at Heathrow airport, should have secured his
third win in nine starts after dropping Plymouth's DES
SOWDEN with a left hook in the second of a six-twos.
But Barry, rated No. 30 at super-feather, got carried away
a la Terry Norris, following up with four left hooks to the
head while Sowden (10st) was sat on the floor.
Referee Jeff Hinds disqualified him with 37 seconds of the
round gone.

STEPHEN SMITH kept in line for a possible fight against the
likes of Billy Schwer when he retained his IBF Intercontinental
lightweight bauble with a third-round stoppage
of outclassed Bulgarian Ivo Golakov on the same bill.
It had been scheduled for 12 but never looked like going
anywhere near that far, so superior was the Kentish Town
southpaw in every department.

MUCH-IMPROVED Sheffield cruiser BUSTER KEETON
heads his stablemate Johnny Nelson's undercard
tomorrow against American SIONE ASIPELI over eight.
Former brief British title challenger Keeton - his
unfortunate bid against Terry Dunstan at the York Hall in
May 1996 lasted less than two minutes - has a patchy
record but is dedicating himself to the game now and his
two fights with Kelly Oliver prove that.