Boxing News magazine 19.1.2007 Download pdf

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JON THAXTON makes a voluntary
defence of his n ew British lightweight
crown against Stoke nice guy Scott
Lawton on March 16 at Norwich
Showground.
Mick Hennessy promotes and Sky
televise live.
The delayed vacant British superbantamweight
title fight between
Esham Pickering and Marc
Callaghan is on the same bill.
Lawton's chance means his
mandatory English title defence
against Dean Hickman - set for
Scott's own show in Fenton on
February 24 - is postponed.

AMERICAN ref LAURENCE COLE has
been suspended for three months
and fined for telling Juan Manuel
Marquez he was ahead against
Jimrex Jaca last November.
That gave Marquez the option to
quit, because he had just been cut
by an accidental butt and it would
have gone to the scorecards.

SOULEYMANE MBAYE'S defence of
his WBA lOst belt against GRAHAM
EARL was rejected by the WBA, says
journalist Per Ake Persson.
Frank Warren this week won the
purse bids for MBaye's mandatory
against ANDREAS KOTELNIK and
stages it on February 24 in
Liverpool. DERRY MATHEWS
defends his WBU feather belt
against British champion JOHN
SIMPSON on the bill.

TED BAMI is out of his European
light-welterweight title defence
against mandatory challenger
Gianluca Branco in Italy on
Thursday (Jan 25).
Bami has a shoulder injury.
The fight was being shown live back
to Britain on Sky Sports, and they
pondered pulling out too after
hearing the news last weekend.
Without Sky money, the whole
show would have collapsed.
But Liverpool's Michael Jones
was meeting Michele Piccirillo on
the same bill, and that's a good fight
in its own right.

HAYES ABC's Christmas show at the
Thistle Heathrow Hotel, Langley on
December 11 was a sell-out with 350
diners and many standing spectators.
An excellent night was attended by
club old boy Chris Finnegan, the 1968
Olympic middleweight gold medallist.

CHRIS PYATT'S star pupil came
unstuck at the Walkers Stadium.
Former ABA champ Pyatt took
Dominic Deevey to the Junior ABA
title and Four Nations gold last season.
But the Braunstone teenager's homecoming
was ruined by Bracebridge's
Nathan DeCastro, who outworked
Deevey for a deserved majority decision.
Deevey showed classy moves,

BILLY CORCORAN has a rematch
with SEAN HUGHES for the vacant
English featherweight title on a
Mick Hennessy show at York Hall,
Bethnal Green on April 13.
They had a war recently won by
Corcoran in the eighth and last.
Hennessy has another Sky TV
date on March 23 at Nottingham
Arena, where JOHN O'DONNELL
finally meets STUART ELWELL
for the English welter prize.