Boxing News magazine 24.9.1999 Download pdf

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Big Cat dies
BOXING suffered a double loss with the
deaths on September 14 of Argentina's
former WBA light-heavyweight champion
Miguel Angel Cuello and world
heavyweight title challenger Cleveland
" Big Cat" Williams. Full obituaries next
week.

Chavez insists
he's born again
ACCORDING to promoter Don King, who could probably sell
hairbrushes to Buddhist monks, Julio Cesar Chavez, the
legendary Mexican and former champion at three weights,
will be resurrected on October 2.
That's when Chavez, who on several occasions has tried to
split from King, will box Willy Wise at the Las Vegas Hilton on a
show topped by countryman Ricardo Lopez's bid to win the IBF
light-flyweight title from Will Grigsby.
Chavez is in Las Vegas, where he will train until the day of
the fight. And Julio, who recently became a father again (a
daughter), says he latest addition to his family has given him
the will to train harder to reclaim his status as the best fighter in
the sport.

Botha Roy poser
FRANCOIS BOTHA, considered unfortunate
to draw with Shannon Briggs
last month, is thinking about an offer to
face WBC/IBF/WBA light-heavyweight
champion ROY JONES.
It is a difficult decision, because
Botha believes he'll either be made to
look bad if he fails to beat Jones or get
no credit if he does defeat a much
smaller man.

HAL BAGWELL of Gloucester,
former South Central Area
lightweight champion, was
among the distinguished guests at the
Welsh Ex-Boxers' Association Convention
organised by the Ladies' section.
We chatted on the phone a few days ago
and he told me "I attend this event every year
and thoroughly enjoy it. I go with a couple of
friends from Gloucester, Ron Davies and
Dave Hawkins, who does the driving.
"It was good to meet old opponents like
Vemon Ball and Geoige Pook. It was over 50
years ago when Geoige and I boxed and he
still looks in good shape. I also met old friends
Dai Dower and Paul King, and of course former
world champion Howard Winstone.

THE days of two fighters meeting more than a couple of times seem to be
over. Three-fight series like Bowe versus Holyfield, Leonard-Duran and
Carbajal-Gonzalez still occur occasionally but anything more than that has
been kissed goodbye.
The last heavyweight champions to meet more than three times were
Ezzard Charles and Jersey Joe Walcott, who had four encounters in the early
'50s.