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RICHARD EVATT joins the long list
of boxers who found retirement
far more treacherous than the
dangerous career that came before.
The Coventry man, best known for
losing a tremendous encounter
with Junior Jones in 1999, collapsed
in a homeless shelter and died a
few hours later on July 16 aged just
38. According to his family, his last
few years were ravaged by drink.
The post-mortem has proved
inconclusive and further tests will
be required to find out the cause
of death, but a 32-year-old man
has been arrested and bailed on
suspicion of his murder at the
Salvation Army Hostel in Hillfields.
He won the bantamweight
ABA title in 1993 before turning
professional two years later. In April
1999 he was given the chance
to take on Jones and Evatt came
agonisingly close to the upset. The
Midlander dropped Jones twice and
was ahead on points when his rival
rebounded to stop him in round 11.
His career never really recovered,
although he did outscore future
British featherweight boss Roy
Rutherford in a memorable 2000
scrap in Coventry's Skydome. Along
the way he fought Peter Buckley
three times, becoming one of a
handful to halt the journeyman.
"He could bang," remembered
Buckley. "He was a good puncher
and what a fight he had with Junior
Jones. I was shocked to hear what
happened but I hear he'd been in a
bad way for a while" •
Evatt retired in 2002 with a
record of 20-5 (14) and spoke
regularly about fighting again.
But by the end his life had been
consumed by alcohol abuse.
"We.tried as a family to support
.him and get him back, but he was
lost," his mother Bobby Evatt told
the Coventry Telegraph after his
death. Our thoughts are with the
whole family.

LIGHT-WELTERWEIGHT Martin
Tucker from Toledo, Ohio has been
arrested in relation to a threeyear-
old bank robbery case after
the FBI retrieved a bloody cotton
swab used on the journeyman in
April. The DNA obtained from the
swab matched evidence recovered
by police from the 2009 armed
robbery.

ENZO MACCARINELLi is receiving
legal advice after taking a substance
in a fitness magazine that resulted in a
positive drug test for methylhexaneamine
and a six-month ban. The former WBO
cruiserweight boss believed it would help
him burn fat as he prepared for his March
win over Shane McPhilbin for the British
crown. The substance made him feel sick
and he stopped taking it, oblivious as to '
what was to come,
"I wish to state that this substance was
in no way used to gain any advantage
in the ring or enhance my performance,

IT'S a sign of how tough it was
for European women to qualify
that Turkey's Gulsum Tatar,
seeded number two at 60kgs for
the Worlds, didn't make It to the
London Games. India's Laishram
Devi put her out only to be
scalped in turn by Liverpool's
Natasha Jonas [pictured].
But Russia's Sofya Ochigava
forced her to settle for a
World bronze. "I've boxed her
twice and she beat me twice,"
said Natasha. "She's very
experienced and she's got good
ringcraft and she's quick. She
can hunt you down and trap you.
I've tried to wait and counter
her and she's just too quick
to do that. But we found that
she struggled with putting the
pressure on."
The star of her division is
Ireland's Katie Taylor, who's
won everything going and is a
hot favourite for Olympic gold.
Jonas has boxed Taylor but
could not beat her. "I know the
performances are in me to do
it. There's ways and means of
putting pressure on them," said
Natasha.
"Any time we go away, we
want to medal because we
know we can do it. I'm going
to box to the best of my ability
and whatever else happens
happens."