Boxing News magazine 11.4.2003 Download pdf

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CHRIS EMANUELE of Nuneaton is
quitting in disgust after dropping
a disputed verdict to Jason
Thomas late last month - his third
defeat on the trot.
Thomas gained revenge for a 21-
second defeat in 2001 with a fourround
points success in Barnsley.
Jason desperately needed the win,
because according to Emanuele the
Board were probing him and ready to
take away his licence.
Going in, the Welsh southpaw hadn't
scored a win since 1999.
Emanuele, a father of a new baby girl,
was pleased for Thomas but shattered
by what he felt was a clear win.
He said he would be making an
official complaint to Rob Smith at the
Board.

VINCE PHILLIPS, heroic in defeat
against Ricky Hatton in Manchester
last Saturday, returned to America
without getting paid after the fight.
That might sound as it the American fought for nothing, but he
didn't. Promoter Frank Warren is arguing the total of advance
payments and other expenses incurred getting Phillips into the
country and the ring came to more than the boxer's contracted
$50,000 purse.
In addition, Warren said Phillips had tried to hold him to
ransom at the last minute, threatening to walk out unless he was
paid, in cash, an additional $40,000.

ANYONE who questioned
RICKY HATTON'S value as a
world-beater must surely
reconsider following his
unanimous 12-round points
victory over remarkably stubborn
American VINCE PHILLIPS.
Not only did Hatton win, but he hounded
and punished Phillips, the only man to have
defeated world No. 1 Kostya Tszyu (albeit six
years ago), ignored a terrible cut over the right
eye from the opening round and survived a
momentary scare in the fourth when nailed by
a superb right uppercut to the chin.
In many ways, Hatton's success was like
when Barry McGuigan elevated his status as a
featherweight over 18 years ago by impressively
outpointing classy and dangerous Puerto Rican
Juan La Porte over 10 rounds in Belfast.
The comparisons certainly do not end there.
Hatton fought with the same intensity as a
young McGuigan, also a brilliant body puncher.
Like Phillips, La Porte was a former 'world'
champion with enough firepower and know-how
to give the home fighter plenty to think about.
And like the American, La Porte was
convincingly outpointed.