Boxing News magazine 31.7.1998 Download pdf

Boxing News magazine 31.7.1998 Download pdf
Boxing News Magazine 1998 Memorabilia
Boxing News Magazine 1998  History
Boxing News Magazine Professional Results
Boxing News Magazine Amateur Results 1998
Pdf Magazine Downloads 1998

LESS than a year after announcing
his surprise retirement, former
WBO middle and
super-middleweight champion Steve
Collins is talking about fighting again.
We have heard the rumours for
many months, but no evidence to
support it. Though following Chris
Eubank's second successive defeat
by Carl Thompson in Sheffield on July
18, Collins, who also defeated the
Brighton man twice, says he would be
accept a third clash with his great
rival.
The conditions, however, would
have to suit Collins, which would
mean a fight to follow against American
Roy Jones, whom he wanted to
meet before he retired last August.
"If Frank Warren came to me and
said, 'Steve, you've got the Jones fight
in December', and Eubank had won
the cruiserweight championship of
the world, 1 would have taken Chris as
a warm-up," he said.
"1 would fight Eubank and class it
as a warm-up for Jones. 1 would

MARK PRINCE, the Tottenham
puncher, is up against it when he
chaUenges DARIUSZ MICHALCZEWSKI
for ttie WBO light4ieavyweight title hi
Hamburg on September 19.
Hie Londoner is not without a
chance. The champion's chin is somewhat
suspect and Prince is a genuine
puncher.
•
DANNY ROMERO, an hnpressive
first-round winner in Lake
Charles 12 d a p ago (see pages 24-2^,
must wait until September to find out
when he will challenge arch rival

DON'T expect WBC featherweight
champion LUISITO
ESPINOSA to defend his crown
against Welshman STEVE ROBINSON,
who boxes in Telford on September
5, or WBO king PRINCE
NASEEM HAMED.
The Filipino, who pulled out of
a Robinson match in Britain, has
agreed to put his title at stake
against undefeated Mexican JUAN
CARLOS RAMIREZ in El Paso,
Texas on August 15. The same
show features the WBC light-welterweight
title final eliminator
between KOSTYA TSZYU and
RAFAEL RUELAS.
Ramirez is a voluntary challenger,
approved by the WBC's
Board of Governors, but Espinosa
has made it clear he wants no part
of Hamed.

HEAVYWEIGHT CODY KOCH, a 25-year-oId known as "The
Alaskan Assassin", died last Sunday outside Shooters Bar in
Shields, Michigan,
His body was found by police. The results of the autopsy had not
been made public as we went to Press, but a Sheriff's spokesman said
the death may have been from natural causes.
The boxer, who was training for an August 22 rematch in Las Vegas
with Ed Mahone, who had beaten him In February, was reported to
have had an argument with a woman at the bar. Koch took the dispute
outside, but was not allowed back in by bouncers.
"I had really high hopes for this guy," said Art Dore, his manager. "I
was grooming him to be somebody. He had the tools to become heavyweight
champion of the world".
Koch was not quite that good, but held some promise. His contest
with Mahone was a memorable battle, but Cody was stopped in four
rounds by Ukrainian prospect Vladimir Klitschko in Germany in May.