Boxing News magazine 22.1.1999 Download pdf

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YOU may need to read this twice:
HOWARD CLARKE, No. 8 in our British
ratings, is expected to be confirmed as the first
challenger for exceptional IBF light-middleweight
champion FERNANDO VARGAS on the Evander
Holyileld-Lennox Lewis bill at Madison Square
Garden, New York on March 13.
Yes, Howard Clarke from Warley in the West
Midlands, the 31-year-old who has not so much
as contested an Area title.
Contrast Clarke with London flyweight
Mickey Cantwell, who about a year ago
admitted he wanted no part of Mexican
Ricardo Lopez, the WBC straw-weight champion.

SHANNON BRIGGS, an asthmatic, pulled out of a 10-rounder against
LOU SAVARESE at the Theatre, Madison Square Garden on February
27 because he did not want go with trainer Emanuel Steward to the
Poconos in Pennsylvania, where Lennox Lewis is preparing for the March
13 heavyweight unification match against Evander Holvfield.
HBO, who were to have shown the fight as the main event, were upset
with Briggs' decision and have questioned his commitment.
"You have to know whether you want to be a fighter or not when you
turn down real money to fight in your hometown," said HBO's Lou Di Bella.
Briggs had reportedly asked Steward, whose main priority is Lewis, to
set up training camp in a warmer climate, somewhere in Arizona or
Florida, to ease his condition.

WHILE Irishman STEVE
COLLINS issued a plea to bring
a proposed April 17 WBC and WBA
light-heavyweight title challenge
against ROY JONES to Britain,
Murad Muhammad, the American's
promoter, and Lou Di Bella of HBO
said the match was by no means
certain.

ADY LEWIS, the former British and Commonwealth
flyweight champion, was expected to box Ian
Turner from Cardiff In a British bantamweight title
eliminator on the Carlisle card, but the Welshman's
withdrawal forced the promoters to acquire the
services of LOUIS VEITCH as a replacement.

BROOKLYN southpaw ZAB JUDAH marked
himself out as a real threat in the light-welterweight
division when he crushed Puerto Rican
WILFREDO NEGRON in the fourth of a scheduled
12-rounder.
The bout was finally billed as being for the
"interim" IBF title after days of confusion which
reflect little credit either on that sanctioning body
or the sport in general.