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Dodson injured
TONY DODSON suffered damaged vertebrae in a car
crash on Tuesday May 25 near his home in Garston,
Liverpool.
Thankfully, the British super-middleweight champion
is expected to make a full recovery, but of course had
to pull out of his twin title clash with Commonwealth
title-holder Carl Froch in Nottingham on Wednesday
(June 2).
Tony will be sidelined for roughly three months.
New top-liner in Nottingham, on a show which
started just after this issue was going to print, was
Junior Witter-Salvatore Battaglia for the vacant
European light-welterweight title, with Froch still on
the bill against Canadian Mark Woolnough.
Full report next week.
The Beeb plugged Froch v Dodson on the end credits
of Sunday Grandstand last weekend fully four days
after it was announced the fight was off.

Elcock v Lockett?
WAYNE ELCOCK will take on Gary Lockett on the
July 3 Enzo Maccarinelli Newport bill if both come
through fights this month, according to Frank Warren's
website.
Lockett demanded a match with WBU middleweight
champion Anthony Farnell after blowing away Kreshnik
Qato last time out.
He told Sky TV: "Now I want Frank Warren to keep
his word and match me with Farnell for the title."
Presumably, the Elcock-Lockett winner will get
Farnell.

Corrie boxes on
IT didn't take Corrie Sanders long to reverse his
decision to retire.
The South African heavyweight, stopped by Vitali
Klitschko for the WBC heavyweight title in Los Angeles
in April, said he's coming back for two more fights.
He said his change of heart was partly to earn more
money and also to finish his career on a winning note.
Promoter Don King has been trying hard to tempt
Corrie back, but Sanders, 39, said he wasn't necessarily
going to fight for the American.

Five in Korea
• THE World Junior Championships for
boxers under 19 on the first day of
competition start in Jeju City, South
Korea on Thursday (June 10). They
conclude on June 20.
England's Amir Khan is eligible, but
instead being aimed at senior tourneys
in the build-up to the Olympics.
Five English boxers are going, namely:
54: Stephen Smith (Rotunda). 57: Bradley
Saunders (South Durham). 69: Joe Selkirk
(Rotunda). 75: James Degale (Dale Youth).
81: Danny Price (Scarborough).
Bill Cox is England's referee/judge
while among the names to watch in
Korea will be Cuba's welterweight Emilio
Correa. His father of the same name was
1972 Olympic and 1974 World champion
at welter (then 67 kgs).

STEVE HISER laughed off our
"Byrnes must have gone fishing"
headline on his club's April 2
promotion, which was merely a
play on words (Fisher, fishing).
"It's water under the bridge,"
he said, before adding: "You
said there were no stars on that
show but, for me, every boxer
who gets in the ring is a star."
Of course, we didn't mean to
disparage the boxers in action
that night. We were trying to say
that, unusually, there were no
internationals/ranked performers.