Boxing News magazine Download 13.11.1992.pdf

LOU DUVA WEIGHS UP THE HEAVYWEIGHTS

 

Burke takes short cut on title road

 

Regan will feel right at home here

 

Colourful Paez's career looks at an end as he is hammered to defeat

 

Walsh brothers do fine double

 

PRESTON lightweight Paul Burke by-passes the British title and takes a chance
against European champion Jean-Baptiste Mendy in Paris on Tuesday.
Burke is the official contender for the British championship won in such style by
Billy Schwer last month.

 

WITH the old men left behind the heavyweight division
suddenly looks exciting. Lennox Lewis shook the picture
up by destroying Razor Ruddock, now we have
Evander Holyfield against Riddick Bowe with the winner
to defend against Lewis.

 

UNBEATEN middleweight contender Roy Jones has signed a three-fight deal
with promoter Bob Arum that starts in either Las Vegas or Atlantic City on
December 5 as part of Arum's triple-header show.
Jones, with 19 successive wins behind him, will face dangerous Percy Harris
on a bill featuring IBF champions James Toney and Iran Barkley.

 

THE BATTLING Walsh brothers from the Leicester-based
Braunstone Club made it a family winning double in a goodquality
Midland Counties Junior ABA championships at the
Coventry Colliery Club, with a double title triumph also for
the Wednesbury Club and an impressive win for Gary
Johnson.

 

EAST ANGLIAN boxers won four of their seven contests against RAF
opposition on King's Lynn Friars' dinner show at the Regis Rooms.
Norwich Lads' Club's promising heavyweight Cliff Elden kept his
unbeaten record by edging out a majority points win over the RAF's
very capable Andy Barron after an excellent heavyweight contest.