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Loughran makes a fresh start
Angel's no pushover for Chavez
Haugen blows Boom Boom to bits in seven rounds
SOUTHAMPTON'S former British light-heavyweight
champion Steve McCarthy was disqualified
Kotey is impatient for his big chance
JOHN DAVISON, a WBC international champion ai xwo weights, nas lost the chance to
challenge Jesse Benavides for the WBO super-bantamweight title in front of his home
fans in September - because TV executives have decided that he is "not well enough
known" to justify paying for the fight. Their decision is a body blow for local promoter
Gus Robinson, who had made the match, and for the sport in the north-east, where
Davison's string of thrilling performances have done so much to revive interest in the
name. FULL STORY ON PAGE 7
challenge Jesse Benavides for the WBO super-bantamweight title in front of his home
fans in September - because TV executives have decided that he is "not well enough
known" to justify paying for the fight. Their decision is a body blow for local promoter
Gus Robinson, who had made the match, and for the sport in the north-east, where
Davison's string of thrilling performances have done so much to revive interest in the
name. FULL STORY ON PAGE 7
OKLAHOMA welterweight Verdell Smith nearly blew
away the world title hopes of Manchester's former
British and Commonwealth champion Tony Ekubia in
the main event on an enthralling Town Hall promotion.
With Jack Trickett and Barry Hearn examining the
possibilities of WBO title fights at light-welter and
welterweight, 32-year-old Ekubia had everything to play
for
away the world title hopes of Manchester's former
British and Commonwealth champion Tony Ekubia in
the main event on an enthralling Town Hall promotion.
With Jack Trickett and Barry Hearn examining the
possibilities of WBO title fights at light-welter and
welterweight, 32-year-old Ekubia had everything to play
for
TITLE-CHASING middleweight Frank Grant, from Bradford,
flashed a warning to Sheffield's 'Bomber' Graham that their
forthcoming British championship match is going to be no
push-over, once the date and venue have been finalised
flashed a warning to Sheffield's 'Bomber' Graham that their
forthcoming British championship match is going to be no
push-over, once the date and venue have been finalised
A GREAT writer Thomas Wolfe once observed: "You
can never go home again." But Greg Haugen transformed
literary allusion into painful reality for Ray
"Boom Boom" Mancini and flattened the "comebacking"
former WBA lightweight champion at 2:37 of the
seventh round with a thudding right hand.
can never go home again." But Greg Haugen transformed
literary allusion into painful reality for Ray
"Boom Boom" Mancini and flattened the "comebacking"
former WBA lightweight champion at 2:37 of the
seventh round with a thudding right hand.
MIXED fortunes, controversy and plain bad decisions marred the involvement
of no fewer than eight Eastern District boxers in the Scottish Amateur
Boxing Championships at Grangemouth.
In the first all-Eastern final at flyweight there was no argument about
Bonnyrigg's Keith Knox's deserved unanimous decision over Bannockburn's
Joe Miller, who bravely absorbed some vicious digs to head and
body from the big hitting Mid-Lothian boxer.
of no fewer than eight Eastern District boxers in the Scottish Amateur
Boxing Championships at Grangemouth.
In the first all-Eastern final at flyweight there was no argument about
Bonnyrigg's Keith Knox's deserved unanimous decision over Bannockburn's
Joe Miller, who bravely absorbed some vicious digs to head and
body from the big hitting Mid-Lothian boxer.