Boxing News magazine 11.4.1997 Download pdf

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OLIVER McCALL'S career could be over. The
troubled former WBC heavyweight champion is
in a mental hospital in Danville, Virginia after his
wife, Alethia, took out an emergency custody order
against him at the end of last week.
Documents were released on April 1 stating
McCall's condition. "He presents an imminent danger
to himself and others as a result of mental illness
or is so seriously mentally ill as to be
substantially unable to care for himself," it said.
McCall was picked up in Martinsville and later
examined by a mental health expert, who said on
March 29 that the fighter was mentally ill and in
need of hospitalisation. He was sent to the Southern
Virginia Mental Health Institute and a involuntary
commitment hearing has been scheduled to
decide whether he will be detained for further evaluation.
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It is the latest in a catalogue of calamities
involving the rock-chinned American, whose
hearing in Nevada to decide whether he will receive
a $3,075,500 purse for his nfth-round defeat by
Lennox Lewis in February will be decided on April
26.

THE ecigeriy-awaited rematch
between Evander Holyiield
and Mike Tyson has been put back
eight weeks after Tyson was cut in
sparring.
They were scheduled to meet at
the MGM Grand Garden in Las
Vegas on May 3, but will now fight
at the same venue on June 28.
It was, remarkably, the second
time Tyson has post^ned a fight
with Holyfield and the third occasion
since his March 1995 release
from jail that he was been forced to
pull out of a fight.
Yet Tyson denied rumours that he
had not been training hard for the
return agsunst the man who surprised
everybody by stopping him
in 11 rounds for the WBA version of
the heavyweight title last November.

WEST HAM southpaw STEVE
ROBERTS (lOst 13 3/41bs)
moved into British title contention
when he outpointed Battersea
puncher GILBERT JACKSON
(11st) over 10 rounds to lift
the vacant Southern Area lightmiddleweight
crown.

COLOMBIAN EDWIN CASSIANI looked
like the fighting reincarnation of the great
Antonio Cervantes, but ageing Mexican "playboy"
JUAN SOBERANES got off the deck late in
the third and amazingly connected with one
perfect left hook early in the fourth which
absolutely stiffened him.