Boxing News magazine 25.6.1999 Download pdf

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Busy for Brodie
MICHAEL BRODIE, European super-bantamweight
champion, has a busy period ahead.
He defends against former Spencer Oliver points
victim, southpaw Serge Poilblan of France, on
Tommy Gilmour's show in Carlisle on July 31, when
local favourite Charles Shepherd boxes American
Tom Johnson in the main event.
If Brodie wins, the Mancunian must meet British
champion Drew Docherty in September followed by
another Frenchman, Salim Medjkoune, whom he
stopped in March.

FORMER European light-middleweight champion GILBERT
COHEN, who won the vacant title by knocking out Londoner
Jimmy Batten in three rounds at Wembley Conference
Centre in November 1978, died on June 13.
He was 51 and had been ill in a Parisian hospital with a lung
infection.
He was a tough character, as depicted by a style which was to
take a few to land one.
In his prime he also worked as an antiques dealer in Paris and
served in the Isreali army, for whom he fought in two wars.
He enjoyed the good life and hated the disciplines of boxing,
which meant he had to abstain from the pleasures of rich food.
He was never regarded as a huge puncher, despite his upset
win over house favourite Batten, which made our front page.
Gilbert turned pro after winning all but eight of 100 amateur
contests but his reign as European champion didn't last long.
He was knocked out in four by serious banger Marijan Benes
in his first defence almost four months after winning it.
May he rest in peace.

Hilton, Berbick in dock
CANADIANS Trevor Bertick, the country's heavyweight champion, and Davey Hilton,
middleweight title-holder, face court appearances for differing offences.
Berbick, 45, has a deportation hearing set for October 4 after breaking the terms of
his 1994 parole following several convictions.
Hilton's offences are more serious. The 35-year-old, in excellent form, is charged with
sexually assaulting two young girts, both under the age of 14, between 1993 and last
January.
The crime carries a penalty of 10 years in prison. The date for his hearing is set for
August 26.

GEOFF McCREESH has an interesting
eight-rounder on the undercard against
reformed character Ojay Abrahams of
Watford.
Bracknell favourite McCreesh, who
relinquished his British welterweight title
this year in search of bigger things, starts
favourite but will have to "box clever" and
does find it hard to get motivated for
eight-rounders like this.
Abrahams nearly ended Wayne Alexander's
undefeated record at Crystal Palace in
April, flooring the Croydon southpaw twice
before being cut in half in three.