Boxing News magazine 21.3.1997 Download pdf

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A MATCH between STEVE
COLUNS against FRANKIE
ULES (above), the WBO and
WBA super-middleweight champions
respectively, has apparently
been made for Glasgow in
late June, giving the Irishman a
much-desired opportunity to
foce the best in his division.
It is a cracldng match, pitting
the tough, swashbuckling Collins
against the stand-up southpaw
sldlls of the American.
Interestingly, both are trained
by Freddie Roach who, like
Aiigelo Dundee in July 1971 -
when Muhammad All fought
stablemate Jimmy Ellis - will
have to choose a corner or
remain neutral. Dundee, by the
way, went with Ellis because he
also managed him.
With ROY JONES giving up
the IBF title - under pressure -
the winner of Collins-Liles will
be regarded as the best in a division
hotting up in Britain. There
is ROBIN REID, the WBC king,
JOE CALZAGHE, the former
British champion, DEAN FRANCIS,
an outstanding winner last
weekend in Reading, HENRY
WHARTON, the WBC's top contender,
RICHIE WOODHALL, up
to 12st after failing in a bid for
Uie WBC middleweight titie last
October, plus DAVID STARIE and
SAM STOREY, who meet for tiie
vacant British titie next month.

• PAUL BANKE, the former WBC
super-bantamweight champion,
who was diagnosed with full-blown
AIDS in 1995, is working with a local
community organiser in Los Angeles
to erect a wall in Lincoln Heights to
remember all members of the Latino
sector who have died from the virus.
Banke, who knocked out reigning
WBC champion Daniel Zaragoza in
one of their three memorable battles,
had a history of drug abuse, but isn't
positive as to how he got the virus. It
could have been from unprotected
sex or using needles.
Banke, who lives in Venice Beach
with his mother, found out he was HIV
positive after he was jailed for a traffic
violation. Soon after, his marriage
broke up. His wife left with his three
children.

•
UNBEATEN cruiserweight
prospect KELLY
OLIVER (13st 12 l/21bs)
recorded his eighth win in
succession, but had to go the
distance with Epworth's
CHRIS WOOLLAS (13st 81bs)
over six-threes.
Referee Jeff Hinds scored
60-56 1/2, with Woollas down
twice in the third and once
in the fourth. Woollas. who
was warned repeatedly for
bending too low, dropped to
his knees in delayed reaction
for seven early in the third
from left hook, shortly after
taking a right.