Boxing News magazine 29.11.1996 Download pdf

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UNDEFEATED JOE CALZAGHE
has WBC champion
Robin Reid in his sights and
his decision to Join promoter
Franli Warren makes the possibility
of an all-British 'world'
title fight sometime next year a
more plausible proposition.
Southpaw Calzaghe Oeft),
winner of all 19 fights, 18
inside the distance, still has
nine months of his contract
with Mickey Duff to run and he
will have to pay Duff 25 per
cent from his purses for that
period.

BEFORE pronouncing Kevin Lueshing as
beaten against Felix Trinidad when
they meet for the Puerto Rican
puncher's IBP welterweight title in
Nashville on January 11, think back 10
years to when Lloyd Honeyghan challenged
Donald Curry for the undisputed
welterweight title.

JOHNNY ARMOUR, the former European and Commonwealth bantamweight
champion, has his first fight since being released from
prison when he tops Mickey Duff's bill at York Hall, Bethnai Green
on December 17 against Russian IGOR GERASIMOV. The same evening,
but at the Doncaster Dome, Commonwealth featherweight champion JON
JO IRWIN defends his title. No challenger has been announced.

HENRY MASKE made a tearful farewell after
failing to become the first 'world' ligfit-heavyweight
champion to retire undefeated. He
was unanimously outpointed by rival Virgil
HlII in their IBF/WBA unification match over 12
rounds before a packed crowd of 13,000 at the
Olympic Hall.

BIRMINGHAM light-heavyweight
MICHAEL PINNOCK
came in as a 24-hour substitute
and pulled off a shock
fifth-round cut eye win over rising
middleweight DARREN SWEENEY
in a scheduled eight-threes at the
new Solihull Executive Sporting
Club.

BILLY SCHWERS optionsare
still open on the domestic
and European scene, but he
made hard work of stubborn
French journeyman Jean-
Michel Moulun. who was floored in
the first but lasted until the seventh
of the lO-round Ayers-Dunne
chief support.