Boxing News magazine 8.10.2004 Download pdf

Boxing News magazine 8.10.2004 Download pdf
Boxing News Magazine 2004 Memorabilia
Boxing News Magazine 2004  History
Boxing News Magazine Professional Results
Boxing News Magazine Amateur Results
Pdf Magazine Downloads 

Toney has surgery
I JAMES TONEY definitely wasn't faking his bicep
injury during the Rydell Booker fight late last month.
The former 'world' middle, super-middle and
cruiserweight champion, now campaigning as a
heavyweight, required surgery on a ruptured bicep
tendon connecting to his left elbow.
Toney's doctor, Tony Daly, said the injury occurred in
the opening round and he couldn't believe how James
was able to perform for another 11 and win widely on
points.
But the 90-minute operation means Toney is out of
a proposed December HBO date and will not fight again
February or March next year.
It's a blow to the loudmouthed but highly-skilled
contender who in February snapped his Achilles
tendon. The Booker match was his first in almost
a year, since stopping Evander Holyfield on his
heavyweight debut.
Toney's brash attitude seems to be winning viewers,
even if his behaviour and antics often appall purists.
The Booker match was watched by an audience
of over one million on Fox Sports, the most for any
prime-time event on the network.

Nedal gets chance
• THERE'S a classy fight in the making for the chief
support to the Erik Morales-Marco Antonio Barrera
rubber match in Las Vegas on November 27.
Golden Boy Oscar De La Hoya, co-promoting with
Top Rank, has added Oscar Larios to the show in a
mandatory defence of his WBC super-bantamweight
title against world-class Aussie Nedal Hussein, who
fights out of the Jeff Fenech stable.

It doesn't look
rosy for Howard
• IN a huge, bustling city like New York,
especially on a Monday morning when the
streets are flooded with people, you don't
expect to bump into world middleweight
champion BERNARD HOPKINS. But I did.
Hopkins, with publicist Kelly Swanson, has had a stream
of engagements since defeating Oscar De La Hoya, but he
wasn't being mobbed or easily recognised.
That, though, gave me a chance to walk and talk with
the champion, who, like everyone at Madison Square
Garden last Saturday, was thrilled by old rival Felix
Trinidad's victory over Ricardo Mayorga.
"I was up and down like a jack-in-the-box," said
Hopkins. "They gave the crowd what they wanted to
see - blood and guts. But I'm no Mayorga," he added, as
if making it clear he wouldn't be so easy to hit and outbox.
"That's why Trinidad is going to avoid me at every cost."
So who is going to be contender No. 20 for Hopkins' title?
Top of his list is German FELIX STURM, who in June lost
a narrow, debatable decision to De La Hoya in Las Vegas,
but it's far from a done deal.
"He's the guy everyone thinks beat up De La Hoya,"
said Hopkins. "That's how we're going to sell it."
I asked him about Britain's HOWARD EASTMAN, but
Hopkins said: "The last time the American public saw or
heard of Eastman was when he lost to WILLIAM JOPPY."
But the list of candidates is not deep in quality.
Undefeated hot contender JERMAIN TAYLOR is set to box
Joppy on December 4, which could leave Eastman with
the WBC's mandatory position (Howard and Taylor had
been ordered to meet in a final eliminator).
The IBF's top challenger is SAM SOLIMAN of Australia.

Rhoose duo cut
loose to Splott
• WELSH boxing brothers Lee and Andrew
Selby have moved gym from Rhoose ABC
to Splott of Cardiff.
Lee, 17 is the Principality's Youth bantam
champion and 15-year-old Andrew Youth
44 kgs king.
The older brother won four titles with
the now-defunct Federation (WABF), two
Wesh ABA and one NACYP of Wales.
Younger sibling Andy won three WABF
and two WABA crowns and like Lee has
represented his country.
Watch out for the dynamic duo this
season. They are pictured above, Lee left.

• GLOUCESTERSHIRE'S
Forest Oaks Boxing Club
has opened its doors under
the expert tutelage of Les
Brooking and Dave Wylde.
Formerly known as
Cinderford ABC, the club
lost its premises in 2001
and ceased competing.
Now it has reformed under
a new name to reflect its
new location.