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MANNY PACQUIAO could pocket as
much as $23m for his pay-per-view
December 6 fight against OSCAR
DE LA HOYA in Las Vegas.
But if De La Hoya comes in at
over lOst lOlbs or higher the
Filipino's trainer Freddie Roach
said there will be no fight.
Oscar had assured one newspaper
that he has no intention of being
heavy, that his natural weight was
around lOst 4lbs and he'll make the
wetter limit easily. However, in a
subsequent interview he said making
welter would be tough.
Some are projecting it could
become the richest fight in boxing
history, surpassing the $120m
grossed by De La Hoya's 2007
fight with Floyd Mayweather.

IBO super-featherweight champion
BiUY DIB of Australia has been
ordered to gwe a rematch to South
African ZOLANI MARAU within 90
days - but the fight may not happen.
Dib scored a controversial points
win over Maraii to win the title in
Newcastle on July 30, with many
ringsiders appalled at the scoring.
The IBO reviewed a tape of the
bout and ordered a return, but
Dib's manager and brother, Ehmaid,
said he had accepted a lucrative
offer for a WBO featherweight title
fight against STEVE LUEVANO in
the US on October 18.
That bout will feature on the
Bernard Hopltins-Kelly Pavlik
undercard in Atlantic City.
That might leave iVIarali fighting
for a vacant belt if Dib decides to
relinquish.
"I never doubted that iVIarali was
given a raw deal in Australia and
after the IBO's ruling I feel
vindicated," South African
promoter Rodney Berman told the
Daily Dispatch newspaper.
WINSOR DOBBIN

Ladies reach a
landmark
NOVEMBER 16 will b e a landmark
date in the history o f women's
boxing. On that day, at the Heritage
Hotel in Derby, promoter and former
pro Clifton Mitchell, a long-time
advocate o f the women's game, puts
on Britain's first ever all-female bill.
Featuring some o f the nation's
more well-known lady fighters,
including JULIETTE WINTER,
ANGEL McKENZIE and LAURA
SAPERSTEIN, plus the debut o f double
ABA champ SUE EMSLEY, the
show helps to mark the progress
made by the women's game in this
country.
Emsley, a teacher by day, has star
potential, if the boxing world is ready
for a female boxing star at all.
For the main event, Mitchell is
trying to make a fight between
Saperstein and LINDSEY SCRAGG.
Mitchell, who hopes to get local
TV onboard, said, "It'll be the first of
many all-female bills i f it's a success.
We have to put it out there so people
can see it and respect it."

PEACOCK southpaw Luke Turner
started last season by beating Paul
Grange on his own Barking show in
October and then outscoring Martin
Stead, the future ABA lightweight
champion on the Army v London show
in Hereford a month later.
But in February Luke lost to another
soldier, namesake Steve Turner, who
went on to reach the ABA final at lightwelterweight.