Boxing News magazine 27.2.1998 Download pdf

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WHAT A PARIS MATCH
Editor Claude Abrams is ringside in
Paris for a feast of boxing including
a cracking encounter between WBA
light-welter king Khaiid Rahilou and
Jean-Baptiste Mendy along with a
repeat win for Anatoly Alexandrov.
Plus full details of Jim McDonnell's
shocking comeback in Slovakia
after a seven-year gap

EVANDER HOLYFIELD says hU next defence will l>e against VAUGHN
BEAN, hopefully before the end of May, but he reiterated hU intention
to face WBC champion Lennox Lewis in a unification bout this year.
Steriing McPherson, the advisor to FRANCOIS BOTHA, however, says
his man will be Holyfield's next challenger, despite failed efforts to take
the match to South Africa.

AMERICAN Olympian David Reid boxes Fidel Avendano over eight
rounds at the Corpus Christi Memorial Coliseum on March 3.
DARIUSZ MICHALCZEWSKl'S next defence of the WBO light-heavyweight
title will be against Italian Andrea Magi, possibly in Frankfurt,
on March 20.

YORK HALL BOOM
MATCHROOM stage an excellent show at York Hall, Bethnal Green on
March 24 with two title fights, plus featherweight puncher lUchard Evatt
against the durable Aldrich Johnson. Adrian Dodson boxing at middleweight
against Kid Mile and light-welterweight Georgie Smith tackling Midlander
Lindon Scarlett.

HAMILTON'S SCOTT DIXON can gatecrash the
British welterweight title picture if he beats
former champion CHRIS SAUNDERS in a intriguing
eliminator at the Thistle Hotel in Glasgow tonight
(Friday February 27).

NOW THAT Frank Warren plans to bring Oscar
De La Hoya over to Britain later this year, I
wonder if this means that Sky will have a change of
heart and start showing his flghts.
Instead of denying us the chance to see one of the
best pound-for-pound fighters in the world, they
should be building him up until the time comes, otherwise
he will arrive over here as a virtual
unknown.
 

THE greater experience of ABA featherweight
champion Steven Bell saw him
through against European Junior bronze
medallist Stephen Burke at Everton Park
Sports Centre.

FISHER welterweight David Walker
found a big right hand to knock out Repton
southpaw Tony Cesay in the last
round after he had appeared to have
been outboxed at York Hall.

AS reported in December, Uzbekistan
heavyweight Ruslan Chagaev has been
stripped of his 1997 World Championships
gold medal after it was revealed
he had previously boxed professionally
in the United States.