Boxing News magazine 22.8.2003 Download pdf

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TIME is running out for JOE CALZAGHE to entice 36-year-old
German SVEN OTTKE to agree to a super-middleweight title
unification clash with the WBA, IBF and WBO belts on the line.
The winner, once and for all, would decide the No. 1 in the
world at 12st, but Ottke has a tough match looming next month
and is nearing retirement.
On Tuesday, Calzaghe's promoter Frank Warren sent a fax to
Ottke's promoter Wilfried Sauerland offering $1m, nearly three
times what world middleweight champ Bernard Hopkins is set to
pocket for defending against William Joppy later this year (see
separate story).

AFTER once being
deported from
America for being an
undesirable alien,
JESUS CHAVEZ won
the WBC super-featherweight
championship in his adopted
hometown by trouncing
Thailand's SIRIMONGKOL
SINGMANASSAK over 12
rounds at the Austin Convention
Center. Scores were 118-110 and
117-111 twice.

A YOUNG Derbyshire
lad's life may well
have been saved
because he took up
amateur boxing.
Jack Hicton (pictured right), an 11 -
year-old from Parwich, discovered during
the required medical that he was suffering
from a congenital heart defect.
He needed a seven-hour operation during
which his aorta (main artery) was repaired.
The medical check was carried out by
Dr J. Zammit-Maenpel when Jack wanted to
become a carded boxer at Ashbourne ABC in
Derbyshire. Now it has been credited with
saving his life - Jack's condition meant he
could have collapsed and died at any time.
His father, John Hicton, explained the
circumstances to Carol Frost of the
Ashbourne News Telegraph.
"Jack is the second of our three sons. He
and Sam, who is 14 [the third son is Harry,
aged nine], joined Ashbourne ABC last
September.
"I encouraged them to do so because it's
not what people fear, the amateur sport
being disciplined with headguards to protect
the head."