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PIERRE FOURIE, of South Africa, fights Bob Foster for the world lightheavyweight
championship on Tuesday, and that's more than enough trouble
for anybody.

MAYBE Ken Norton started an epidemic of mangled
mandibles when he jammed the jaw and muted
the mighty Muhammad. Los Angeles middleweight
Johnny Wise suffered a similar fate in a subsequent
set-to and of course Earnie Shavers lost a lucrative
date with Jerry Quarry when Jeff Merritt turned the
trick on him in a gym joust, with the big gloves yet.

THIS time last year, Duane Bobick was carrying all before him. In his
distinguished career as an amateur boxer he had picked up just about
every title that was going, and was looking forward to turning pro under
any of several eager managers and earning firstly a fantastic fee simply
for putting his name on a contract, and secondly a fortune in purses
culminating in the biggest one of them all. The heavyweight championship
of the world THIS time last year, Duane Bobick was carrying all before him. In his
distinguished career as an amateur boxer he had picked up just about
every title that was going, and was looking forward to turning pro under
any of several eager managers and earning firstly a fantastic fee simply
for putting his name on a contract, and secondly a fortune in purses
culminating in the biggest one of them all. The heavyweight championship
of the world

KOICHI WAJIMA of Japan retained his world junior middleweight championship
when Italian challenger Silvano Bertini failed to answer the bell for the
13th round.

JOEY GIARDELLO and Henry Hank were a pair of
journeymen middleweights who seemed to be going
nowhere when they clashed in the Philadelphia
Arena on January 30,1962.

I AM glad to report the world middleweight championship between Carlo.s
Monzon and Jean-Claude Bouttier will take place after all. A backstage row
had threatened to cancel the September 29 Paris fight.

KEN BUCHANAN, possibly Britain's most respected
fighter on the international circuit, revealed this
week he is to meet Jamaican Percy Hayles for the
Commonwealth lightweight title in Toronto on October 11

JOHN LOUIS GARDNER took up boxing because
he wanted to trim some weight off his bulky six foot
frame. But big John's size may prove precious.

SOME weeks ago, I commented that the established
stars have tended to hog the A.B.A. titles and also
provide the best action. So it was again in 1971
when Lynn's 25-year-old Terry Waller (an A.B.A.
champion in 1967 and 1970) met Bangor's 1970 ABA
light-weiterweight champion Dave Davies in the
stand-out final of the night.