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RICKY BURNS is'thrllled to put his WBO
lightweight titie on the line against IBF
champion Miguel Vazquez of Mexico
on March 16 at Wembley Arena. The first
unification bout in Britain since David
Haye beat Enzo Maccarinelli in 2008
heads a stellar line-up that also features
Nathan Cleverly defending his WBO
light-heavyweight belt
against Robin Krasniqi,
George Groves taking
on Mohamed All Ndlaye
for the vacant European
super-middleweight
title, and the return of
heavyweight Dereck
Chisora - if the British
Boxing Board reinstate his licence - in a
10-round international bout.

UNDEFEATED WBA light-middleweight
champion Austin Trout has come out
swinging after his arrest for public
intoxication in the early hours of New
Year's Day, and has urged WBC counterpart
Saul Alvarez not to use his recent issues
as a way of avoiding a May 4 unification
clash in Las Vegas.
"The media treatment
has not been fair at
all," Trout told Boxing
News. "I have heard
that reports have
put out that I have
received a DUI [Driving
Under the Influence]
and an assault charge. Let me clear it
now: I was picked up for 'suspicion of
public intoxication', which is as much
BS as it sounds. On New Year's Eve too,
who would have thought? So a Class C
misdemeanour is what the fuss is about.

UASYL LOMACHENKO, the double
World and Olympic champion, made
a sudden entrance In the World
Series of Boxing on January 11.
The bouts In these team matches
are contested over five rounds
without vests or headguards under a
10-polnts must scoring system, so It
offered a tantalising glimpse of how
the brilliant Ukrainian would look as
a professional.
Liverpool's Sam Maxwell, at.
61 kgs for the British Llonhearts
franchise, had the misfortune
of going in with a sharp, In-form
Lomachenko, after a last-minute
change of opponent In Kiev

THE 81 kilos division lias recently
been a problem weight class in
British amateur boxing, but that
could be about to change. Oldham's
John Newell is now boxing at lightheavy
after reaching last season's
ABA middleweight quarter-finals
at only 18 years of age - and he's
already boxed at international level.
In November the Boarshaw
member boxed twife for England in
Ireland, beating Sean McGlinchey,
who the previous month had
reached the Irish Under-23
championships final, and losing
to John Tighe, who in 2010 won
national Junior and Intermediate,
titles.