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MEETING Muhammad Ali can be related to banging your
head against a brickwall. It's nice when it stops. I was
around Ali here for his five-day whirl. From a
breakfast-time arrival at Heathrow, sporting a natty green
suit and shoes with white leather raincoat, to his almost
morose departure when his voice was reduced to a whisper.

 

KEN BUCHANAN returned home to Edinburgh this
week with his world title shot assured and his
European lightweight crown still firmly on his head.
But it was a slightly tarnished crown.

 

NEWLY-CROWNED WBA light-heavyweight champion Victor Galindez, ot
Argentina, has agreed to defend his title against South African Pierre Fourie in
Johannesburg on March 15 next year.

 

GERMAN promoter Fritz Gretzschel says negotiations are
going well" for American Oscar Albarado to defend his
world junior middleweight title in Berlin against Germany's
Eckhard Dagge in July or September next year.

 

AUSTRALIA'S Tony Mundine, knocked out by WBA
champ Carlos Monzon in his last fight, is booked to defend
his Commonwealth middleweight title against Trinidad's
Carlos Marks in Barbados in May.

 

FITZROY LODGE coaches Mick Carney and Bill Webster
had a couple of large headaches three days before their
club's promotion at Manor Place when six of their leading
boxers all withdrew through injury or illness.

 

HENRY COOPER was on hand to present prizes and the best boxer of the night trophy to
light-middleweight Tom Gunning (Kelvin) when the East District ABA scored a
convincing 5-2 victory over a team of West district champion at Renfrew on December 3,
writes Billy Lothian.

 

JOHN CONTEH has decided to relinquish the British
light-heavyweight title. He made his decision after the
Boxing Board ordered him to defend against ex-Marine
Maxie Smith, of Stockton-on-Tees, by March 12.