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Wayne comes on strong to keep record

 

No credit for Oyebola in victory over Bills

 

Havard keeps world in his sights

 

Collins sets up WBO title challenge

 

Bonecrusher's defeat may spell the end

 

Mighty McCullough bursts on world scene

 

Navy Novices are looking good

 

HENRY AKINWANDE'S first defence of the European heavyweight
title was so successful that the elongated Londoner may have significantly
reduced some of the bruising to his damaged image which
has left a stigma labelling him as dull and ineffective.
He was, of course, none of the aforementioned as he ripped open
a gash with a single right uppercut to stop the challenge of lumbering
Italian giant Biagio Chianese in front of a silent and sparse crowd
at the Albert Hall.

 

MARSEILLE - November 30: American Tom "Boom Boom"
Johnson overcame tragedy in his camp to retain his IBF
featherweight title with a ninth-round stoppage of French
southpaw Stephane Haccoun at the Sports Palace.
Johnson's preparations were disturbed two weeks
before the fight when one of his cornermen, Clarence
Kallens, shot and killed his manager Keith Grissom in an
argument over a van in Detroit.

 

UNBEATEN New Yorker Kevin Kelley got up from a ninth-round knockdown
to score a brilliant unanimous 12-round decision over Mexico's
Gregorio "Goyo" Vargas in a thrilling fight before a howling crowd at
the Sparks Convention Center.

 

BIRMINGHAM CITY provided eight boxers in a 10-
bout line-up at their dinner show at the Tower Ballroom
with Majid Khan providing a near-record early
finish. In just 12 seconds from start to finish lightm
i d d l e Khan from t h e p r o m o t i n g c l u b t h r ew the
only punch of the contest, a right uppercut, to floor
C o l i n B y r n e (Bennetts Bank) w i t h referee Peter
Blenkinsop, who refereed throughout, stopping it
without any count.