Boxing News magazine 10.12.2004 Download pdf

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Barrera's a magnet
• PAY-PER-VIEW figures from the third fight between
Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales revealed
the contest was a success.
The 325,000 buys (bringing in $14.6m) across the
US meant the rubber match did more business than the
second fight between the great Mexican rivals in 2002.
The rematch, also won by Barrera on points,
generated $12m from 300,000 ppv purchases.

Spinks-Judah on
• DON KING has done it again. He made Cory Spinks
an offer the world welterweight champion couldn't
refuse.
Spinks will next defend against Zab Judah, the
man he said there was no sense in fighting again,
on February 5 in either Las Vegas or Florida.
King had been pushing hard to make the rematch
- southpaw Spinks won the first (in April) on points -
but Cory said the money being offered meant it wasn't
worth the risk.
Spinks' manager and trainer Kevin Cunningham
said: "King's come up with a number we can live with."

Graciano again
• GRACIANO ROCCHIGIANI, Germany's former world'
super-middle and light-heavyweight champion who
nearly brought down the WBC after winning a lawsuit
against them, is in trouble with the law - again.
The 40-year-old was charged last weekend with
assaulting a taxi driver outside a hotel in Berlin.
Police said Rocchigiani, who has served jail time,
was under the influence of alcohol.
Rocchigiani's plight could be serious because his
early release from a stint in prison during 2002 was
conditional on him staying clear of trouble for three
years.

Nicky's head-start
• JESS HARDING has won the purse bids for European
featherweight champion Nicky Cook's mandatory
against British king Dazzo Williams.
Harding intends to stage the domestic tussle in
February. Jess is also working on trying to secure
Robin Reid a WBA super-middle title challenge
to new champion Mikkel Kessler which, if
it comes off, will probably be in Denmark.
Talk of Reid boxing Otis Grant
in Montreal this month came to
nothing. Grant opted to fight
someone else.
Esham Pickering, Harding's
European super-bantamweight
champ, will also have to go abroad
when he defends against Spain's
Miguel Mallon.
Cook is pictured left.

Rick retires
in good nick
• RICK THORNBERRY, the good-value
Aussie super-middle who fought Joe
Calzaghe, Sven Ottke and Anthony
Mundine in title fights, has retired.
He finishes with a paid record of 27-5 (12)
which includes what he calls his lowest
moment - a stoppage defeat by Henry
Wharton in Yorkshire in 1996 for the
Commonwealth title.