Boxing News magazine 5.3.2004 Download pdf

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Klitschkos poised
• WITH Lennox Lewis gone from the heavyweight
scene, the Klitschko brothers are everyone's tip
to take over.
Both will challenge for 'world' titles in April.
Wladimir takes on Lamon Brewster at the
Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas on April 10.
Two weeks later (April 24) and probably also
in Las Vegas, elder brother Vitali faces Corrie
Sanders of South Africa for the WBC title given
up by Lennox.
Interestingly, Vitali is reportedly now being
co-trained by Fritz Sdunek and Lewis' old coach
Emanuel Steward.
Steward comes in for Freddie Roach, who
assisted the Ukrainian brothers for their last
fights.
Before Roach, Tommy Brooks was helping out.

Eamonn shock
• BELFAST hardman Eamonn Magee. being
considered as a challenger for American Sharmba
Mitchell in Manchester on April 3, was the victim
of a vicious attack in his hometown on Monday.
The WBU welterweight champion required
surgery, such was the extent of injuries from
what is believed to be a gang attack, after he
was dragged from his car and beaten.
Southpaw Magee, 32, suffered a compound
fracture of the tibia and fibula and it is believed
he may have also have had a lung punctured. His
career could be in some doubt.

Joppy not jolly
• WILLIAM JOPPY, who quit the sport after
his defeat by Bernard Hopkins for the world
middleweight title in Atlantic City last December,
isn't having a happy retirement.
In January, Joppy was charged with assaulting
a truck operator who was attempting to repossess
the former boxer's car.
And last month Joppy received a lawsuit from
boxer Teddy Reid, alleging personal injury
following an incident in the gym TEN years ago.
Reid alleges Joppy threw the spit bucket and
a pair of 2lb weights at him after a spar Teddy
apparently dominated.

Kid movement
• THE New York-based group for retired fighters,
Ring 8, are trying to raise money to exhume the
body of former world welterweight champ Kid
Gavilan so he can be buried at a cemetery where
monuments are permitted.
Gavilan, who died nearly a year ago, is buried
in Dade County, Florida. The price of a monument
is $4,000, but it would cost over twice that
amount to move his remains elsewhere. Ring 8
are trying to raise the funds.

• HIGH PERFORMANCE boxer Michael Grant said his win
over Wallace was revenge for his trainer Brian John - who
was in the St Pancras corner the 1999 night Wallace
stopped now-pro Martin Power (also in the ABAs). Grant's
other trainer at Haringey, Gerry Willmott, is a policeman.
• CURRENT St Pancras trainer John Leggett, when asked
why he spent 15 years in the Foreign Legion in France,
blamed a woman... "Maggie Thatcher!"
• SPORTING loser Isaac Zebra, who made a real impression
in these championships, bowed to all four sides of the ring
with the air of a man saying: "I'll be back."