Boxing News magazine 15.2.2002 Download pdf

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Simpson away date
THE British and Commonwealth light-heavyweight
title showdown between Neil Simpson and Tony
Oakey is finally on.
But British champ Simpson must go into
Commonwealth king Oakey's home patch. The
match is made for the Mountbatten Centre,
Portsmouth on Match 18.
The match, twice cancelled last year, heads a
quality line-up which includes Michael Alldis'
challenge for the Commonwealth and vacant British
super-bantamweight titles against Brian Carr.
And though I will believe it when I see it, Adrian
Dodson is scheduled to meet South African Mpush
Makambi, who has beaten the London southpaw
twice already, in a 10-rounder.

Classy Hopkins
BERNARD HOPKINS is not particularly exciting to
watch, but he gets the job done, is tough as nails
and has fought hard to get where he is today.
He is also a class man. From his $2.5m purse for
defeating Carl Daniels in Reading, Pennsylvania on
February 2, Bernard donated a six-figure sum to
Wanda Little, the widow of former WBA super-middleweight
champ Steve Little, who died two years
ago from colon cancer.
Hopkins wants a rematch with Roy Jones, but it
seems unlikely to happen because the boxers cannot
agree on money.
To Bernard this is a sign that Jones is running
scared. He said after beating Daniels: "Roy is ready
to be picked like a peach off a tree. He's not hungry
any more. He needs two alarm clocks to get up. I
still get up at the crack of dawn on my own."
Hopkins' contract with Don King and HBO
guarantees him similar purses in his next three
fights to that which he earned against Daniels.
If Jones isn't interested, Hopkins said he is quite
happy to continue defending against all-comers.

Mundine still big at home
DESPITE losing his last fight, Anthony Mundine is still of greater interest
in Australia in a non-title comeback match than his countryman Rick
Thornberry, who next month challenges Mundine's conqueror, Sven
Ottke.
Thornberry goes up against the German on away soil on March 17, but
because of the time difference, Australian television stations are not going to
purchase the rights.
Instead, they will televise Mundine's match against Brad Mayo in Townsville
on March 4.
Thornberry, who took Joe Calzaghe the distance for the WBO title in Cardiff
in June 1999 after it looked as though the Welshman was going to win early,
believes he can beat the undefeated Ottke, then finish his career with a payday
defending against Mundine.

LACK of firepower or skill will not
be the reason should DANNY
WILLIAMS fail to add to the
British and Commonwealth heavyweight
belts he retained in seven
rounds on Eugene Maloney's show at
York Hall against late substitute
MICHAEL SPROTT.

VITALI KLITSCHKO became the first to
stop former two-time 'world' heavyweight
title challenger VAUGHN BEAN
when the American was halted by English
referee Terry O'Connor at 1-40 of the 11th in
a scheduled 12-rounder for the WBA
International title.
The massive Klitschko controlled the action from
beginning to end, making it a one-sided spectacle,
though Bean, who lasted 12 with Michael Moorer and
Evander Holyfield, was never off his feet.
Bean finished with both his eyes swollen and was not
offering anything in return when the ending came.
Klitschko, on a winning run of four since losing his WBO
belt to Chris Byrd when he pulled out with a damaged
shoulder, remains the WBC No. 2 contender behind Mike
Tyson.