Boxing News magazine 7.3.1997 Download pdf

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DEVASTATING puncher
JULIAN JACKSON reportedly
pulled out of his scheduled
10-rounder at the Aladdin
Hotel, Las Vegas on February
13 against JAMES MASON
because he wasn't happy with
the money on offer. The Virgin
Islander, no longer with Don
King, said he had bruised
ioiuckles, but had allegedly
been advanced $7,000 already
and scoffed at the $17,000 he
was being offered for the fight.

GREG HAUGEN, the former
IBF lightweight and WBO
llght-wellerwelghl champion,
came back, as a light-middle In
Tacoma, Washington on February
15, unanimously outpointing
Mexican JESUS MAYORGA over
10 rounds.
Haugen, 36, out of action for
15 months, lives with three of his
four children (aged between
eight and 16) at his mother's
home following a messy divorce.
And though Haugen says he Is
fighting for the money, he pocketed
a mere $2,000.

BRITAIN'S top cruiserweights
Johnny Nelson, Terry Dunstan,
Chris Okoh and Carl Thompson will
all take interest in the movements of
WBO champion RALF ROCCHIGIANl
The German's defence against
Switzerland's STEFAN ANGEHRNwho
has been preparing at Gleasons
in Brooklyn under Hector
Rocha - at the Hallenstadium,
Zurich has been moved back to
April 26.
Rocchigiani, who is making the
sixth defence of his title, is expected
to face Thompson next.

THE Shea Neary story has
become too big to be confined
to Liverpool. Dublin
or Manchester are already
being considered for his
second defence of the WBU lightwelterweight
belt, following his
marauding three-round win
against Jeremiah Malinga at a
packed Everton Park Sports Centre.