Boxing News magazine 9.2.2007 Download pdf

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RICKY HATTON will relinquish his
IBF light-welterweight title (again) if
the governing body doesn't give him
leeway to defend against Jose Luis
Castillo in Las Vegas in June.
Hatton, w h o regained the belt only
last month outpointing Juan Urango,
was given an ultimatum by the IBF:
defend against the Ndou-Naoufel Ben
Rabah winner or vacate.

IT'S strictly an amateur story but
it's worth saying here - a couple of
schools in Bromley, south London
are incorporating the sport into
PE lessons.
Boxing has not been taught in
school since 1962.
Frank Bruno and Julius Francis
were at a launch in one of the
schools last week.
There will be no contact,
apparently, just bag work, etc.
A story on the BBC website said
Beckenham's Kelsey Park Sports
College reintroduced boxing after it
gave a new home to a local boxing
club that had closed down.
It had such a positive effect,
apparently, that the school decided
to take things further.

UNBEATEN light-welter Timothy
Bradley stole the show at the
Chumash Casino, upping his record
to 18-0 (10) with a unanimous eightround
decision over Manuel Garnica.
Garnica, a Mexican in the mould
of former WBC super-featherweight
champ Genaro Hernandez b o t h size
and skill-wise, carried a 20-6 (12)
record into the ring, including a win
over Carlos Maussa and a debatable
loss t o Juan Lazcano last October.
This night, h e was n o match for
"Desert Storm", w h o gets his
nickname from his time spent
in the armed forces.

TWO men who monopolised the
ABA bantam title in the 1980s
stood side by side for a minute.
Sean Murphy won in 1985 and '86
and Keith Howlett in 1988 and
1989. Yet they never boxed.
Murphy is now a coach, Howlett
a ref. Both were working here.
Murphy said when he quit boxing
he didn't go near a gym for three
years. "I bought a dog, a Dalmation.
It was the fittest dog in St Albans."
Now he loves coaching the kids
at Finchley ABC.