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ITALY'S Salvatore Burruni outpointed
Spain's Mimoun Ben
Ali over 15 hard-fought rounds
to take the Spaniard's European
bantamweight crown.
' Both fighters could hardly
stand as the final gong sounded.

FRENCH welterweight Jean Josselin,
28, stopped Leroy " Hurricane
" Roberts 29, of the USA, in
the sixth round of a scheduled 10-
rounder at the Palais Des Sports.
Josselin, ran his winning streak
to 46 in 52 bouts while for
Roberts, it was his fourth defeat
after 18 bouts.

BRISTOL promoter Len Munden
opens his 1968 programme at
the Colston Hall on Thursday,
February 8 with an all-Irish topliner
between Jim " Spike " Mc-
Cormack, of Belfast, and Birmingham-
based Dublin lightweight
Liam Clarke.

ALAN EDWARDS' decision to pull
out of next Thursday's international
in protest at being omitted
from the team to face Ireland in
Dublin on February 9 has highlighted
in the most dramatic way the shortsightedness
of the ABA selectors, who
insist on picking a side for match
No. 2 before match No. 1 has taken
place.