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Silly Hearns talks tough
THOMAS HEARNS can't fight as well as he once
could, but the Hitman still knows how to sell a
fight.
He and January 17 opponent Thomas Reid had
quite an entertaining press conference to announce
their 10-round cruiserweight bout in Memphis.
Hearns, 44, told his foe: "You say you've been hit
hard. But see, I don't hit. I'm like a mule - 1 kick."
The most poignant comment, though, came from
Reid, who said he recalled watching Hearns on TV
when he was a young boy.
Reid didn't want to underestimate the veteran. "I
know he's kind of over the hill, but don't overlook his
age because George Foreman proved you can be 50
and still do damage."
It is Hearns' aim to beat Reid and, perhaps after
one or two more wins, challenge WBA champion
Jean-Marc Mormeck (see separate story).
Refusing to accept he was finished, Hearns said:
"I really feel I can come back and relive some of
those things I used to do."
Isn't that what they all believe?
Sinclair homes in
BRITISH welter king Neil Sinclair gets a tilt
at the WBU crown in hometown Belfast
(Odyssey Arena) on February 1.
The Northern Irish puncher challenges
South Africa's Jan Bergman, 42-3.
It's a good match which promises
fireworks, but to give a true perspective of its
meaning in world terms, Sinclair has lost to
Daniel Santos and Bergman was beaten by
Kostya Tszyu and Zab Judah.
Both, though, are on winning runs,
Bergman having triumphed in his last four
and Sinclair his previous seven.
On the same show Takaloo, who lost the
WBU light-middleweight belt when outscored
by Santos for the WBO crown in August, will
bid to regain the crown (still vacant).
He fights Dubliner Jim Rock, but it is
hardly a world championship.
VANDERPOOL'S A JEWEL
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CANADIAN super-middleweight SYD "THE JEWEL" VANDERPOOL looked superb I
stopping JAFFA BALLOGOU in the second of a 10-round showdown of world-rated
southpaws on the Byrd-Holyfield show.
Vanderpool, who went the distance with Bernard Hopkins in an IBF middle title try in
May 2000, was sharper from the off. He floored Ballogou with a sweeping lead right hook
to the chin in the opening minute of the second.
Jaffa, now 40-5 (35), got up and was allowed to continue, but never recovered. He was I
staggering all around the ring under fire when referee Benji Estevez called it off at 1-51. I
Vanderpool, 33-2 (22) and aged 30, signed with Don King earlier this year and is |
targeting WBA 12st champion Byron Mitchell, who's also a DK fighter.
Syd has scored five wins since Hopkins and deserves another crack.