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Forbes out, Toney in
STEVE FORBES, IBF super-featherweighl champion, has decided
against defending his title at the Celebrity Theater, Phoenix on
March 22 to concentrate fully on mandatory contender Lamont
Pearson
It was no surprise. Forbes was far from nappy with the chopping
and changing of would-be challengers when original foe Ernesto
Zepeda had to withdraw because he got cut in a tune-up.
Instead. James Toney. who played Joe Frazier in the recent Ali
movie, will box former Johnny Nelson points victim Sione Asipeli in
a cruiserweight 10-rounder as the main event.
Pearson will fight on the same show, against Manuel Sepeda,
who has won his last four since losing a 10-round decision to a
rather shopworn Junior Jones.
The night before, at the same venue, Tontcho Tontchev and
former top Irish amateur Bernard Dunne xix on the undercard of
Hector Camacho Jnr-Omar Weis. Both shows are being televised
in the US by ESPN.
Worth watching is Toney's weight. He was 16st 2lbs for his last
fight, in July last year.

Acevedo test
VETERAN former IBF light-welterweight champion Vince
Phillips will determine whether Nick Acevedo, the unbeaten
New York welter who didn't impress me much on the Vernon
Forrest-Shane Mosley card, has what it takes at top level.
They meet at the Paris Casino, Las Vegas on March 29 with
Cedric Kushner lining up a heavyweight undercard. Giant Swede
Attila Levin boxes Ron Guerrero, while Willie Palms. 10-1-1,
faces a test of sorts in Sedreck Fields

WH E N Carl Gizzi was outpointed by J a c k Bodell over 15
rounds for the British heavyweight title in O c t o b e r 1969
at Nottingham Ice Rink, it w a s still a proud day for the
North Wales s e a s i d e town of Rhyl.
They had seen their man give his all and earn distinction for both
himself and the town in his attempt to bring the British title back to
Wales for the first time since Joe Erskine's successful defence against
Henry Cooper in London in September 1957.
At 6ft 3in, the handsome Gizzi was rated as a giant, but at Ellesmere
Port's latest Starsport promotion another man from Rhyl, at 6ft 7in,
dwarfed Carl.

THERE is no perfect way
to judge a fight.
Glenn Catley can have few complaints
the European Boxing Union appointed three
neutrals to officiate his olficial super-middleweight
title challenge to Germany's Danilo
Haeussler. but was less than happy with
the result of their observations following 12
hard rounds before a sell-out crowd of 2,000
the Brandenburg Halle.
Catley, outpointed on a majority and a loser for
the third time in five fights has been successful
on his travels before, though wins over Markus
Beyer (to win the WBC title in Frankfurt) and Eric
Lucas (in a final eliminator for the aforementioned
crown in Montreal) had come via stoppage.
There would be no sensational last-round win
this time. Haeussler was strong, durable and
difficult to hit cleanly, but it speaks volumes about
the accuracy of Catley's punches that the German
ended the contest black and blue.