Boxing News magazine 11.8.2006 Download pdf

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NIKOLAI VALUEV, the gigantic WBA
heavyweight champ pictured above, is
going back to the US as a tide-holder.
Valuev, being co-promoted by Don
King and Sauerland Event, will top an
October 7 bill against New Yorker
iVlonte Barrett. HBO will televise,
with venue to be decided.
Originally, Valuev-Barrett was
scheduled for New York's Madison
Square Garden. It had to be shifted
when Wladimir Klitschko confirmed
his defence of the IBF title (almost
certainly against Shannon Briggs)
was going ahead at the famous venue.
Klitschko's camp negotiated an
agreement with the Garden whereby
no one else could stage a show there
several weeks either side of the date.
Valuev, all 7ft and 23st of him,
scored wins in Atlantic City in
1997 and 2001.

IN the second instalment of the
ShoBox super-middleweight
tourney, American LaFarrell
Bunting made the most of an
opportunity as he filled in on
four days' notice for injured Sakio Bika
and stopped Colombia's Jose Luis
Herrera at 1-20 of the fifth.
Bunting, now 16-1-1 (16), had a
respectable amateur career, winning
the US Junior Olympics in 1997 and
competing in over 200 matches.
As a pro, he has flown under the
radar, facing soft opposition and letting
his weight seesaw from 12st lib to 13-9.
This was the first bout where he had
come in at or below the super-middle
limit of 1 2 s t - h e was l i s t 13 l/21bs.
Like most Colombians fighting in the
US for the first time, Herrera (12st) was
a mystery to us. He was 14-1 (14) but
his last win (TKO 4) was over veteran
Jorge Castro in the other's hometown
of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

NATHAN THOMPSON, ABA
heavyweight runner-up to Tony
Bellew in December, has been
banned for two years after failing
a drug test.
Thompson, Mrith the Wellington
club in Middlesbrough, tested
positive for 19-norandrosterone,
which the UK Sport drugs website
lists as an "anabolic agent".
The ban runs from December 23
last year to December 22, 2007.
Banned over the same dates,
and for the same substance, is
super-heavy COUN GOLOHAWK,
who tested positive at the ABA
quarter/semi-finals in November.