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COLIN DUNNE was furious with the Sky commentary team for claiming both Martin Jacobs was
robbed and the Liverpudlian finished.
"I watched the fight the next day and stand by what I originally said - 1 won the fight, he said. "I'm
not saying I won comfortably and know it wasn't a good performance, but he didn't do enough to
take my title away.
"The knockdown was similar to the one I suffered against Jon Thaxton [1995]. It hit me on the
back of the head and I was caught off balance. I admit I was a little stunned, but got straight up and
even came back in that round [the first]. In my eyes it was a 10-9 round to Jacobs, not 10-8.
"I'm disgusted at Sky's commentary. All they were talking about was Jacobs this, Jacobs that.
What about the body shots I landed - and I landed a few? I stopped him in his tracks at least three
times, but they didn't mention that.

WITH Tyson's defeat sending shockwaves through boxing, the heavyweight
division resembled an open playing field again.
King immediately pressed for a Tyson-Douglas rematch but Douglas and
his team preferred to defend their titles against Evander Holyfield first.
King took legal action, failed to enforce an instant Tyson-Douglas return,
and when Holyfield hammered Seamus McDonagh in the fourth that summer,
Douglas-Holyfield was soon confirmed for The Mirage in Las Vegas.
Two months earlier, heavyweight boxing returned to New York's Madison
Square Garden in a big way when Canadian dangerman Razor Ruddock
blitzed Michael Dokes in the fourth with his favoured "smash punch" — a
hybrid left hook-cum-uppercut.
In the chief support, Bonecrusher Smith won a dreary decision over former
rival Mike Weaver.

FISHER head coach Steve Hiser, who turned 61 last month, is the sort of stalwart without
whom amateur boxing wouldn't exist.
"I work in the post," he explains, "and sometimes get home from a show at one
o'clock in the morning and have to be up at 4.30 for work.
"I do it because I love boxing. But it takes a lot of work to bring boxers through."
He joined Fisher in 1957 and went in the ABAs at welter a couple of times, losing in
the South East Divs in both 1961 and the following year. (In those days, the Division
stretched all the way down to the South Coast and was talent-packed).
In late 1962 he represented London against South Poland and the Army, then went
pro, quitting in 1965 with an 8-2 record.
He went back into the amateurs as a coach, starting at Eltham under Richard
Atkins. "We had David Smith [future British flyweight title challenger against Charlie
Magri] there," he remembers.