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SUSPICION has been cast on
Manuel Jiminez after his firstround
knockout loss to Roman
Gonzalez at the Palenque de
Gallos in Mexico on March 17.
Jiminez, 7st 1 1 l/4lbs and now
1 1 - 3 - 1 (5), went down from a body
shot and declined to beat referee
Alvaro Carcia's count after 2-58. His
purse for the non-title lO-rounder
has since been withheld. WBA lightflyweight
champion Gonzalez, 7st
l l l b s , Is now 3 1 -0 (26).

JAMES DEGALE is slated to defend
his European super-middleweight
title in Frederikshavn, Denmark on
April 21-against Italy's Cristian
Sanavia. "Degale had a great
amateur career but has never been
inside the ring with someone as
experienced as me," said Sanavia.
"This is my last chance to get back
to where I belong, which is the
very top of the super-middleweight
division."

TWO announcements concerning
two of South Africa's best
strawweight fighters - both 'world'
champions - made the press
this week. The first was that IBO
strawweight champion, the 1 9 -1
Hekkie Budler, would engage In an
eight round non-title fight against
one Shamila Kortman, 2-0.
The unknown Kortman has only
two four-round contests on his
professional CV but has somehow
got a shot at the IBO champion.
The fight Is scheduled to take
place at Emperor's Palace Casino
on Tuesday (March 26). According
to Colin Nathan, Budler's trainer;
"Hekkie was due to defend his title
against Florante Condes here on
March 3, but Condes got Injured
and It was called off.
"It is essential we keep him busy
- hence we took this fight. Kortman
once beat Hekkie in the amateurs
so comes Into the fight with some
credibility,"
It Is a sales pitch that no selfrespecting
fight fan is going to buy.
The other announcement
concerned the overdue defence
by Nkosinathi Joyi of his IBF
strawweight title. JoyI will defend
against Katsunari Takayama In a
return at the Orient Theatre, East
London, on March 30. This will be
joyl's first action since january last
year when his fight with Takayama
ended In a No Contest after a clash
of heads, resulting in a cut eye,
ruled out the Japanese challenger.
L i joyl's hometown fans will be
overjoyed at seeing him in action
again, and the champion will
probably not believe he Is actually
in the ring and fighting until the
bell rings for the first round.

TO decide w;ho would enter th?
ABA quarter-final on Saturday
{March 24) at Dukes Hall in
Hornchurch against the Home
Counties champions, the victors
of the London and Southern
Counties stages met at Feltham
Community College.
In the best bout of the
day Repton's George Kean
overcame Johnny Saunders at
67 kgs. The Rumbles southpaw
scored consistently with his
lead hook but Kean embraced
the bruising encounter,
working hard with eye-catching
uppercuts to win 36-24. ~
The show-closer with superheavyweights
Joe Joyce,
Earlsfleld, and Nick Webb,
VJoking, got the adrenaline
pumping. Joyce landed his big
shots from the start but a
pained Webb stuck In there and
found the Earlsfleld boxer's
defences open.
Both their faces bore the
ravages of war, Joyce taking it
38-25 however a cut beneath
his right eye may hamper him at
the next stage.
Dale Youth's Deion Jumah
shook up Moulsecoomb's Luke
Batstone, wildly swinging
with his southpaw left. Jumah's
hunger for a knockout might
have disrupted him In this one
but he secured a 35-14 win at
86 kgs.
Basingstoke's Bryce
Coodridge Is a giant
middleweight but Aarron
Morgan doggedly kept on him,
reaching up to land enough
scores for a 19-14 win.
Both winners for the
Southern Counties both came
from the same club. Heart of
Portsmouth. At lightweight
Robbie Matthews weathered
the firestorm Lion's Haithem
Laamouz'typlcally brings.
Matthews stayed strong,
standing up to the hooks
Laamouz flung his way and
drove In clear scoring shots of
his own, finishing 30-15 ahead.
Robbie's heavyweight clubmate,
Greg Bridet beat Dagenham's
Robin Dupre 20-12.
Earlsfleld had two more