Boxing News magazine 20.12.1996 Download pdf

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UNBEATEN Coventry featherweight
DEAN PITHIE
wants to be more active next
year and he also needs better
quality opposilion after stopping
oft-beaten MARTY CHESTNUT
in the third round,
officiaiiy because of a cut right
eyebrow.

AKINWANDE had a marvellous 1996, slipping
through on the blind side to become the latest of
the modem-era British 'worid' heavyweight champions.
After Lennox Lewis, Herbie Hide and Frank Bruno,
Akinwande came through in the summer with a ruthless
third-round stoppage of Califomian Jeremy Williams to
win the vacant WBO title

EUROPEAN featherweight champion Hardy is
closing in on a fight with Naseem Hamed.
He is now the No. 1 contender for Hamed's
WBO title and, if he sees off the challenge of
Steve Robinson in February, should clinch a deal
for April or May.

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW YORK - May 10
WHAT was considered a relatively safe outing for Lewis turned into the
toughest fight of his life as veteran former WBO champ Mercer refused
to give ground for 10 long, hard rounds.

GARY JACOBS was non-commital
about his future after
losing in seven rounds to Frenchman
Patrick Charpentier for the
European welterweight title in
June, but he said he would go on
holiday to Florida and think about it.

JULIUS FRANCIS has withdrawn from his vacant
British heavyweight title fight against Herble
Hide to challenge undefeated Croatian Zeljko
Mavrovic for the European crown in Vienna on Fel)-
ruary 15.