Boxing News magazine 8.3.2002 Download pdf

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Micky bid fails
WHAT goes around comes around. When Jesse James
Leija suffered his highly-controversial technical decision
loss to Hector Camacho Jnr last July because the latter
suffered a cut, he filed an official complaint and got the
verdict changed to a No Decision when the New York State
Athletic Commission accepted the bell for the sixth had not
rung (therefore the fight did not go the required distance in
which to render a technical decision).
When Leija was then cut against Micky Ward in San
Antonio in January and it also went to a technical decision -
which Leija collected - this time it was Ward who tried to get
the verdict overturned.
However, the Texas Department of Licensing and
Regulation said last week the decision would stand, despite
referee Laurence Cole being quoted as saying: "I didn't
actually see a butt but didn't see a punch either, so assumed
it was a butt [which caused Leija's cut]."
Ward insisted it was from "a sneaky left uppercut-hook".

Rahman tarnished
POLICE in Washington DC are investigating the murder
of Oliver McCaffity, who was found dead from a gunshot
to the head along with another person in a car
belonging to former worid heavyweight champion Hasim
Rahman.
McCaffrty worked for Rahman in helping the boxer set
up a clothing line and open a shop in downtown DC.
Rahman said he often allowed his employee to use the
car, which was found mangled in an alley.
Only last month McCaffity had received three years'
probation for conspiracy to distribute cocaine in June
2000, but no link between the shooting and drugs has yet
been established.
Rahman said the police, public and media need to
concentrate more on finding out who committed the
crime than his fame in relation to the murders.

FOUR champions retained their
titles on a finals night of drama at
a packed National Stadium.
Dublin light-fly John Paul Kinsella, Belfast fly
Liam Cunningham, Wicklow welter James
Moore and Dublin middle Kenneth Egan were the
big four, with last year's light-heavy champion
Alan Reynolds from Sligo moving up to win the
heavyweight cup.
Star of the night was Moore, the 23-year-old
electrician who made sparks fly with a blistering
third - round stoppage of Roscommon's David
Conlon, now boxing with Dublin's Crumlin BC.
Southpaw Moore, a bronze medallist in last
summer's World Seniors in Belfast, was always in
front against a gritty opponent who never found
the openings to land his heavy shots.

TOMMY BROOKS assisted Don Turner in Holyfield's corner for
both fights with Tyson and went on record as saying Tyson
should have been banned for life after the horrific ear-biting
episode in the rematch.
When Tyson eventually resumed his career, he hired Brooks as his
trainer - a position Tommy retained until shortly after Tyson's recent
victory over Brian Nielsen in Denmark. Brooks has worked with a
number of other top heavyweights in recent years, including Hasim
Rahman, Larry Donald and Michael Grant.