Boxing News magazine 27.4.2001 Download pdf

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LIKE Ali-Foreman in 1974, the famous Rumble in the Jungle,
Lewis-Rahman took place in the early hours of the morning
in Africa and had a dramatic finale - the bigger man being
destroyed by a peach of a right hand from the underdog. Unlike
Ali-Foreman, there could well be a rematch for Lennox to put
things right, but this was a morning when his claim to
greatness was surely sent crashing with the rising of the sun

BRITISH light-middleweight champion Wayne
Alexander is on the mend - he broke both hands
losing to WBO king Harry Simon - and looking forward
to defending his domestic crown in June or July.
"I presume Joe Townsley's still the No. 1 contender,"
he said. "I wonder if he'll fight me? As most know, I'm
desperate to win the Lonsdale Belt outright."
Alexander did not argue over West Ham's Steve
Roberts leap-frogging him in last week's British
ratings. "I was half-expecting that," he added, "going
by current form."
But Alexander is not convinced Adrian Stone should
be No. 1. "He fights at 10st 10lbs and has beaten only
welterweights apart from Townsley, who exposed him
a bit."

JOHN HEGGARTY of Chatham club St Mary's was the only Kent winner
when the Junior ABA Class 6 (born 1973) finals were held on a dinner
show at the splendid Winter Gardens in Margate on April 21.
Heggarty was named Best Boxer for his 12-6 victory over Matthew Old (Bury
Edmunds), who was a substitute for a substitute. The finalist should have been Jason
Rushton, but he was forced out with a broken finger (see separate story).
That should have let in his semi-finals victim, Steve Bailey, but the Golden Gloves lad
had been disqualified - which meant no further participation allowed in the championships.
So in came Old, who had lost to Bailey in the quarter-finals. And Matthew gave it a
good go, finishing strongly over the last two rounds of a good final. But Heggarty had a
bit too much.

T H E DEATH has been reported of Maxie McCullagh, the first Irishman to win a
European amateur title outside his own country when he won the lightweight crown in
Oslo in 1949. He was carried through the streets of Dublin on a white horse as crowds
cheered his arrival home.