Boxing News magazine 18.11.1988 Download pdf

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MIDLANDS lightweight
champion Peter Till overcame
the gritty challenge of
Telford's George Jones in
eight hard rounds at the
Civic Hall.

HISTORY could be in the making for Gloucester's chirpy
middleweight Johnny Melfah when he challenges Herol
Graham for the British middleweight title at the York Hall,
Bethnal Green on Wednesday.
It will be only his tenth professional fight and victory
would make him the least experienced holder of the 11st 61b
title. But despite starting the clear underdog, he is quietly
confident; it's a fight where he has nothing to lose and
everything to gain.

FORMER Finnish amateur star Joni Nyman made a
successful professional debut when he stopped Hammersmith
southpaw Andy Furlong (l0st 6lbs) in the second of a
scheduled six round joint main event in the first show in the
Finnish capital for four and a half years.

UNDEFEATED Virgil Hill delighted a roaring hometown crowd
of 8,000 at the Civic Centre a | he outclassed and stopped Canadian
and Commonwealth champion Willy Featherstone in the tenth
round to retain his World Boxing Association light-heavyweight
title.

SUMBU "Patrizio" KALAMBAY outclassed
American challenger Doug De-
Witt for six rounds, then crushed him
with a big left hook in the seventh to
retain his World Boxing Association
middleweight title at the Louis II Stadium.

IRELAND'S team to face Czechoslovakia in their opening
international of the season at the National Stadium,
Dublin, tonight (Friday) has a strange look about it, with
none of the seven-man Olympic squad included.

NEWLY crowned IBF flyweight champion
Duke McKenzie gets a date for his first title
defence. Promoter and manager Mickey
Duff announced this week that McKenzie
will meet a top rated contender at the Royal
Albert Hall on January 18, 1989.
But first McKenzie come through his non-title
bout at the Elephant and Castle Recreation
Centre on November 30 when he meets Mexican
Artemio Ruiz.