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A STOCKY little ebony-skinned man of 40, whose 5ft 3ins most athletes can
look down on will march proudly with the Nigerian contingent into the
stadium at Munich in the nations parade for the Olympic Games next month.
The last time I saw him in the flowing colourful robes, the traditional costume of
his country, was in Edinburgh in 1970 as national coach looking after Nigeria's boxing
team.

WORLD heavyweight champion Joe Frazier may be stripped
of his title by the World Boxing Council, because he has
not defended his title against a top contender in 16 months,
WBC officials said in Mexico City.

TOM BOGS, Denmark's highest-paid athlete, plans to go in
blasting when he meets Carlos Monzon of Argentina for
the world' middleweight title in Copenhagen on August 19.
Promoter Mogens 'Palle,
who manages Bogs, said:
" Monzon is dangerous

AVENEMAR PERALTA, long overshadowed by brother Greg, will embark on a U.S. campaign.
His supremacy over the South American light-heavies has landed him in a position
of either taking a run-up the " down " escalator, or heading for the greener grass.
Nobody left to beat at home, yet not quite good enough to bring the better class fighters into the
Argentine with the purse pay being weighed into the " can't afford " bracket by the heavy expenses.

ROCKY MARCIANO was the super puncher of the 50's. His blows were
said to equal the impact of armour-piercing bullets.
Rocky was perhaps the last of the great white heavyweights. Small for a heavyweight
(5ft 11 in), and short in the arm, Rocky made the most of his inborn assets — strength,
courage, dedication, a great capacity to absorb punishment and, of course, natural hitting
ability.

DUANE BOBICK outlasted rival Nick Wells in the
bloody heavyweight finals of the preliminary U.S.
Olympic trials to join surprising Tim Dement,
classy James Busceme and eight others in moving
to within one step of making the U.S. Olympic
team.