Boxing News magazine 29.8.2003 Download pdf

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FLOYD MAYWEATHER, WBC lightweight
champion, has been told his
next challenger, when he defends
at home in Grand Rapids, Michigan
on November 1, has to be better.
Floyd had announced he would be boxing Julio Diaz
on that date, but American cable network HBO, who are
paying Mayweather large sums to perform on
their channel, said the Californian
wasn't up to scratch.

IT appears as if Donny Lalonde's career is
finally over. The 42-year-old recently outpointed by
another veteran, American Virgil Hill, has serious
eye damage.
Lalonde, a former WBC light-heavyweight
champion, had fought four times on his most
recent comeback and won three. His quest was
to become the oldest-ever 'world' champion.
But Donny seems to have accepted the dream
is over. He had suffered an injury to his left eye in
sparring a week before boxing Hill. The eye
became swollen, blood-shot and Donny said he
had "depth perception problems".
Doctors in Winnipeg examined him and
determined there was fluid on the eye, a
scratched cornea and damage to the muscle over
the eye. The doctors said the damage may have
encouraged the development of a cataract.
"I couldn't tell he [Hill] was that close to me,"
said Lalonde, who lives in Costa Rica.
And though he could have surgery to repair the
damage, the eye is unlikely to ever be able to
withstand the sort of contact it would be exposed
to in the ring.

ACCORDING to some sources, Roy Jones is supposed to
be heading to Kenya and has been offered the chance to
have his next fight, on November 8, in the African nation.
But reports of Jones-Antonio Tarver happening in
Nairobi are misleading. Jones doesn't like fighting outside
America and I very much doubt the Kenyans can come up
with the capital required to tempt Roy to box abroad.
Jones is lending his support to Kenya's fight against AIDS
and appears more interested in promoting his music (Roy
released an album last year) than entertaining the Africans
with his boxing skills.
Roy's advisor Brad Jacobs has confirmed the Tarver fight
will not be in Kenya. He has also asked the WBC to sanction
a challenge by Jones for Tarver's light-heavyweight title; the
Board of Governors are expected to approve the fight on condition
the winner agrees to defend against whoever triumphs
in an eliminator between Aussie Paul Briggs and George
Khalid Jones or else vacate.