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• SPARTA weltenweight
Mike Reid takes an ambitious
step up In class at
Edinburgh's Grosvenor-Hilton
Hotel tomorrow (Saturday
September 6) when he
meets former multi-titled
Scottish 67 kgs champion
Colin McNeil in a joint top
of the bill clash.
Yet it is also a mark of
Fauldhouse-based McNeil's
confidence that he takes this
bout only 48 hours after a
gruelling flight from Kuala
Lumpur where he represent-.
ed Scotland in the
Commonwealth
Championships.
Reid was upbeat about
his chances against the
more experienced McNeil: "I
respect Colin outside the
ropes but feel he is the class
of opponent I must beat to
climb the ratings."
Meanwhile, the other
Sparta bill-topper is equally
Intriguing, featuring
Clovenstone's Scottish 69
kgs champion Craig
McEwan against Sparta
challenger Fundo Mahura.
Craig beat Fundo in
November's Eastern District
Championships, stopping
him on the outclassed rule in
round three. (Tliat was in the
now-defunct 71 kitos category).
But Mahura insists things
could be different this time
around, saying, "I have much
more experience now and
will be going all out to win."

IT was all too easy a
comeback for the former
WBO heavyweight champion
WLADIMIR KLITSCHKO
as he destroyed Argentine
FABIO MOLI in 69 seconds of the
first round before a packed
crowd of 11,500 at the
Olymplahalle.

FORMER WBA light-heavyweight
king EDDIE
MUSTAFA MUHAMMAD is
heading another attempt to
form a boxers' union. This
one is named the Joint Association
of Boxers or JAB for short. Its aims
are to set minimum pay for boxers and
set up coverage of health insurance,
pensions and retirement funds.
They are trying to tie up with the powerful
Teamsters Union and claim 200 boxers have
already signed up. The alms are admirable,
but no one has yet resolved how It will be
funded. That is a big hurdle to overcome and
could be ttie one at which It falls.
I still get a laugh from the IBC ratings.
The latest edition I saw had Michael Nunn
as No. 2 light-heavyweight. They still have
Robert McCracken as No. 1 middleweight,
James Butler No. 2 super-middleweight -
where they had him rated when he was still
in jail - and the late Andrew Murray is No.
4 welterweight.